THE BABES IN THE WOOD / LIVE FLESH by Ruth Rendell

The Babes In The Wood: There hadn't been anything like this kind of rain in living memory. The River Brede had burst its banks, and not a single house in the valley has escaped the flooding. In the midst of this, two teenagers - Giles and Sophie Dade - and Joanna Troy, the woman who had been looking after them, have vanished. The Subaqua Task Force could find no trace of them, but Mrs Dade was still convinced her children were dead.

 The investigation would call into question many of Wexford's assumptions about the way people behaved, including his own family...

Live Flesh:  Why did he do it? Why had it happened? What sort of fiend was he? Why should Victor Jenner, the child of happily married middle-class parents, succumb to such violent rages? Why should he have needed to make motiveless attacks on women? Victor didn't know.

But Victor did know that the last ten years - the years in prison - had been a mistake. He had never intended to harm anyone. It had all been an accident. In fact, his life had been a series of accidents, one mistake leading to the next.

Now, out of prison at last, Victor still isn't free. The past holds him so he can't go forward. So Victor goes back - and begins a chain of accidents, a new string of tragic mistakes.

Soft cover, good condition. Minor signs of wear to the spine.