Ruth Rendell: No More Dying Then (UK 2009)

From the Publisher:
On a stormy February afternoon, little Stella Rivers disappeared -- and was never seen again. There were no clues, no demands and no traces. And there was nowhere else for Wexford and his team to look. All that remained was the cold fear and awful dread that touched everyone in Kingsmarkham.

Just months later, another child vanishes -- five-year-old John Lawrence. Wexford and Inspector Burden are launched into another investigation and, all too quickly, chilling similarities to the Stella Rivers case emerge.

Then the letters begin. Horrifying, evil, threatening letters of a madman. And suddenly Wexford is fighting against time to find the missing boy, before he meets the same fate as poor Stella...

Ruth Rendell: No More Dying Then. A Wexford Case. Arrow, ISBN 9780099534853 (October, 2009), 291 p., £7.99.

Ruth Rendell: No More Dying Then (USA 1999)

From the Publisher:
What kind of a person would kidnap two children?
That is the question that haunts Wexford when a five-year-old boy and a twelve-year-old girl disappear from the village of Kingsmarkham. When a child's body turns up at an abandoned country home one search turns into a murder investigation and the other turns into a race against time. Filled with pathos and terror, passion, bitterness, and loss, No More Dying Then is Rendell at her most chillingly astute.

With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes.

Ruth Rendell: No More Dying Then. An Inspector Wexford Mystery. Vintage, ISBN: 0375704892 (May, 1999), 203 p., $12.00.