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    The Tree of Hands

    A Novel

    Author Ruth Rendell
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    Mass Market Paperback
    $7.99 US
    Ballantine Group | Fawcett
    4.2"W x 6.8"H x 0.7"D   | 6 oz | 44 per carton
    On sale Feb 12, 1986 | 320 Pages | 9780345312006
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    A daughter's grief . . . A mother's madness . . . And a daring act of love that defied every law . . . 

    “The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world.”—The Boston Globe

    Mopsa, driven by a past scarred by madness and violence. Benet, stricken by the most grievous loss any woman can bear. Carol, trapped in a life of crushing drabness no lover can change. Three mothers joined by a single thread of terror, whirled into a spiral of kidnapping, murder, and a final, reckless affirmation of love.

    Praise for The Tree of Hands

    “A consummate artist who commands style, plot and character . . . A storyteller of a high order.”—Washington Post

    “An excellent piece of suspense writing.”—San Diego Union

    “Densely plotted, deeply emotional . . . The design of this book is brilliant. . . . It moves forward in a series of inexorable events that leave the reader panting from suspense and shaken from the sheer emotion of it all.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

    “Here is Ruth Rendell at the top of her form—topping it, in fact, with a suspense chiller enchanted by a contemporary topicality that strikes to the heart.”—Judith Christ
    “The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world.”—The Boston Globe

    “A consummate artist who commands style, plot and character . . . A storyteller of a high order.”—Washington Post

    “An excellent piece of suspense writing.”—San Diego Union

    “Densely plotted, deeply emotional . . . The design of this book is brilliant. . . . It moves forward in a series of inexorable events that leave the reader panting from suspense and shaken from the sheer emotion of it all.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

    “Here is Ruth Rendell at the top of her form—topping it, in fact, with a suspense chiller enchanted by a contemporary topicality that strikes to the heart.”—Judith Christ
    Ruth Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, was the author of many thrillers and murder mysteries. She was the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and also the recipient of three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Daggers from Great Britain’s Crime Writers Association. In 1997, she was named a life peer in the House of Lords. Rendell also wrote mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark-Adapted Eye is the most famous. She died in 2015. View titles by Ruth Rendell

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    A daughter's grief . . . A mother's madness . . . And a daring act of love that defied every law . . . 

    “The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world.”—The Boston Globe

    Mopsa, driven by a past scarred by madness and violence. Benet, stricken by the most grievous loss any woman can bear. Carol, trapped in a life of crushing drabness no lover can change. Three mothers joined by a single thread of terror, whirled into a spiral of kidnapping, murder, and a final, reckless affirmation of love.

    Praise for The Tree of Hands

    “A consummate artist who commands style, plot and character . . . A storyteller of a high order.”—Washington Post

    “An excellent piece of suspense writing.”—San Diego Union

    “Densely plotted, deeply emotional . . . The design of this book is brilliant. . . . It moves forward in a series of inexorable events that leave the reader panting from suspense and shaken from the sheer emotion of it all.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

    “Here is Ruth Rendell at the top of her form—topping it, in fact, with a suspense chiller enchanted by a contemporary topicality that strikes to the heart.”—Judith Christ

    Praise

    “The best mystery writer anywhere in the English-speaking world.”—The Boston Globe

    “A consummate artist who commands style, plot and character . . . A storyteller of a high order.”—Washington Post

    “An excellent piece of suspense writing.”—San Diego Union

    “Densely plotted, deeply emotional . . . The design of this book is brilliant. . . . It moves forward in a series of inexorable events that leave the reader panting from suspense and shaken from the sheer emotion of it all.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer

    “Here is Ruth Rendell at the top of her form—topping it, in fact, with a suspense chiller enchanted by a contemporary topicality that strikes to the heart.”—Judith Christ

    Author

    Ruth Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, was the author of many thrillers and murder mysteries. She was the winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award and also the recipient of three Edgars from the Mystery Writers of America and four Gold Daggers from Great Britain’s Crime Writers Association. In 1997, she was named a life peer in the House of Lords. Rendell also wrote mysteries under the name of Barbara Vine, of which A Dark-Adapted Eye is the most famous. She died in 2015. View titles by Ruth Rendell

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