My first Ruth Rendell. ‘Road Rage’ rocks right along, plunging you into the action from the first page. With an ongoing protest against a proposed highway as the backdrop, Chief Inspector Reg Wexford’s wife Dora calls a cab to the train station and promptly disappears. Then four others who have called the same cab company are also reported missing. It doesn’t take long before the connection to Greens and protestors emerges and Wexford is racing against the clock to find the hostages. Rendell writes vividly of the environmental impacts of road development and the stakes involved for small town residents without losing the excitement of the plot.