A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods & Kings & men
- of strange lands & events
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A magnificent epic set against a history of seven thousand years of the struggles of Gods & Kings & men
- of strange lands & events
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Born in Brussels in 1929, Audrey Hepburn was the daughter of a British father & a Dutch Baroness. But when she was five, her father deserted the family. With the outbreak of war in 1939, her mother thought they would be safer in Holland than Holland Park, but although they survived the German Occupation, the experience left its physical & emotional scars.

Back in England again, Audrey studied ballet with Marie Rambert. After a few West End musicals & minor film parts, she was spotted by the author, Colette, to star in a stage version of her novel, Gigi. & then Audrey

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A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while... It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it would be to discover that one of his daughters had been murdered. Sylvia has always been a cause for concern. Living alone with her two children, she is pregnant again. What will happen to the child? The relationship between father & daughter has always been uneasy. But the current situation also provokes an emotional division between Wexford & his wife, Dora. One particular member of the local press is gunning for the Chief Inspector, distinctly unimpressed with what he regards as old-fashioned police methods. But Wexford, with his old friend & partner, Mike Burden, along with two new recruits to the Kingsmarkham team, pursue their inquiries with a diligence & humanity that make Ruth Rendell's detective stories enthralling, exciting & very touching. ...

A father's worst nightmare. It's first light & George Marshalson's daughter hasn't returned home. He doesn't yet know that she never will -- that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery.

Chief Inspector Wexford has never known a case of a father finding the murdered body of his daughter. He has daughters of his own but can barely imagine himself in Mr Marshalson's position.

Tasked with picking through the pieces of a shattered family, Wexford unearths some surprising secrets about the dead teenager's lifestyle. & when a second girl is found murdered -- a victim unquestionably linked to the first -- Wexford has to put his own family problems aside to tackle what will become of the most disturbing & emotional case of his career.



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A father's worst nightmare. It's first light & George Marshalson's daughter hasn't returned home. He doesn't yet know that she never will -- that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery.

Chief Inspector Wexford has never known a case of a father finding the murdered body of his daughter. He has daughters of his own but can barely imagine himself in Mr Marshalson's position.

Tasked with picking through the pieces of a shattered family, Wexford unearths some surprising secrets about the dead teenager's lifestyle. & when a second girl is found murdered -- a victim unquestionably linked to the first -- Wexford has to put his own family problems aside to tackle what will become of the most disturbing & emotional case of his career.



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A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person. The driver behind is spared. But only for a while... It is impossible for Chief Inspector Wexford not to wonder how terrible it would be to discover that one of his daughters had been murdered. Sylvia has always been a cause for concern. Living alone with her two children, she is pregnant again. What will happen to the child? The relationship between father & daughter has always been uneasy. But the current situation also provokes an emotional division between Wexford & his wife, Dora. One particular member of the local press is gunning for the Chief Inspector, distinctly unimpressed with what he regards as old-fashioned police methods. But Wexford, with his old friend & partner, Mike Burden, along with two new recruits to the Kingsmarkham team, pursue their inquiries with a diligence & humanity that make Ruth Rendell's detective stories enthralling, exciting & very touching. ...