The Babes in the Wood

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Title:      The Babes in the Wood
Categories:      Wexford Series
BookID:      791
Authors:      Ruth Rendell
ISBN-10(13):      9780385659604
Publisher:      Book Club Associates
Publication date:      2002
Edition:      First Edition
Number of pages:      336
Owner Email:      [email protected]
Language:      English
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 With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all three have drowned, and as the hours stretch into days Wexford suspects a case of kidnapping, perhaps connected with an unusual sect called the Church of the Good Gospel. But when the sitter’s smashed-up car is found at the bottom of a local quarry–occupied by a battered corpse–the investigation takes on a very different hue. 

The Babes in the Wood is Ruth Rendell at her very best, a scintillating, precise and troubling story of seduction and religious fanaticism–and murder.

 

 

 

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"This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune, often the surfeit of our own behaviour, we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villains by necessity, fools by heavenly compulsion, knaves, thieves, and treachers by spherical predominance, drunkards, liars, and adulterers by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whore-master man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star!" King Lear (Edmund) Act I, scene ii

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"A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood” Henry VIII, Act 1, Scene 1

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"How well he's read, to reason against reading!" Love's Labour's Lost, Act 1, Scene1

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“Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me from mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom.” The Tempest, Act 1, Scene 2

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