Ruth Rendell : Live Flesh

Why did he do it? Why should Victor Jenner, the child of happily married parents, succumb to such violent rages? Why should he have needed to make motiveless attacks on women? Victor didn’t know. But Victor did know the years he had spent in prison had been a mistake. He had never intended to harm anyone. Now, out of prison, Victor still is not free. The past holds him so he can’t go forward. So Victor goes back and begins a chain of accidents, a new string of tragic mistakes.