by Ruth Rendell
Very much of its time (late '90s), this book is about murders occurring during and around environmental opposition to a bypass highway. Inspector Wexford's personal stake in the story is upped when his wife is kidnapped as one of the hostages in an attempt to get the bypass stopped. Eventually, the ...
In this novel the stakes raise because Inspector Wexford's wife is kidnapped, along with four other people, by a radical group bent on protecting the woods that a highway is slated to run through. Then the bodies begin to appear and Wexford become desperate to save his wife and to find the killer.
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