The Tree of Hands Author:Ruth Rendell Once when Benet was about fourteen she and her mother had been alone in a train carriage--and Mopsa had tried to stab her with a carving knife. — It was some time since Benet had seen her mad mother. So when Mopsa arrived at the airport looking drab and colorless in a dowdy grey suit, Benet tried not to hate her. — But when the tragic death of a ... more »child begins a chain of deception, kidnap and murder...