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|title=End in Tears

|author=Ruth Rendell

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=336

|publisher=Hutchinson

|isbn=0091796415

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A block of concrete is dropped from a bridge and hits the car in front of the one driven by Amber Marshalson. A passenger in the car is killed. Some weeks later Amber's father finds his daughter bludgeoned to death after a night out and it's obvious to the police that Amber was the real target in the earlier attack. Why would anyone be so determined to kill an eighteen-year-old single mother? Where did Amber get the thousand pounds which she has in her bag and why has she recently been to Frankfurt with an acquaintance who has disappeared?

Had the characters of Baljinder Bhattacharya and Hannah Goldsmith been better handled I'd have unhesitatingly given the book five stars. The four stars are well-deserved though and the book is definitely recommended.

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