Title: Simisola
First published: 1995
Description: Only eighteen black people live in Kingsmarkham. One of them is Wexford's new Doctor, Raymond Akande. When the doctor's daughter, Melanie, goes missing, the Chief Inspector takes more than just a professional interest in the case. Melanie, just down from university but unable to find a job, disappeared somewhere between the Benefit Office and the bus stop. Or at least no one saw her get on the bus when it came. According to her parents, Melanie was happy at home. She had recently broken up with her boyfriend but, until now, there had been no cause to worry about her. And no one liked to voice the suspicion that something might have happened, that Melanie might be dead ...
Subjects: Wexford, inspector (fictitious character), fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, England, fiction, Fiction, Police, Inspector Wexford (Fictitious character), Serial murders, Missing persons, Mystery, Large type books, Race relations
Places: Sussex, England, Sussex (England)