A Rage of Innocents (Chief Inspector Morrissey Mysteries)

St Martins Press, 1998-08-01. First American Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x5x1. No Stock Photos! We photograph every item. ex-library with usual markings; light edge wear to boards and jacket; first edition, first printing; Paula's last hope of conceiving a child of her own has gone, and Social Services has ruled that she is too old to adopt. Then a new doctor offers a miracle that will cost nothing but money and a little pain. Placid and round of belly, she waits in her private room for a miracle to happen. Lucy is sixteen, suspicious by nature, and homeless. But she's also six months pregnant, so when she's picked up by the Malminster police and taken to a refuge she stays there grudgingly. But trouble is brewing in Malminster. Tempers are fraying; the body of a pregnant woman is found in a rain-swollen ditch; a man is stabbed to death by a gang of kids; a housewife is brutally raped in her own home. And as Chief Inspector Morrissey investigates the alarming crime rate, he discovers a horrifying secret that lies at its core.