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Inspector Wexford #24
Scribner
November 2013
On Sale: November 5, 2013
Featuring: Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford
ISBN: 147674713X
EAN: 9781476747132
Kindle: B00CCX6ND6
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Mystery | Suspense
From crime legend Ruth Rendell, the gripping new novel in
her “beloved” (USA Today) Inspector Wexford series, which
will soon mark its fiftieth anniversary A female vicar named Sarah Hussain is discovered strangled
in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. Maxine, the gossipy cleaning
woman who finds the body, happens to also be in the employ
of former Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford and his wife.
When called on by his old deputy, Wexford, who has taken to
reading The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire as a
retirement project, leaps at the chance to tag along with
the investigators. Wexford is intrigued by the unusual
circumstances of the murder, but he’s also desperate to
escape the chatty Maxine.
A single mother to a
teenage girl, Hussain was a woman working in a
male-dominated profession. Of mixed race and an outspoken
church reformer, she had turned some in her congregation
against her, including the conservative vicar’s warden.
Could one of her enemies in the church have gone so far as
to kill her? Or could it have been the elderly next-door
gardener with a muddled alibi? As Wexford searches the vicar’s house alongside the police,
he sees a book, Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua, lying
on Hussain’s bedside table. Inside it is a letter serving as
a bookmark. Without thinking much, Wexford puts it into his
pocket. Wexford soon realizes he has made a grave error—he’s
removed a piece of evidence from the crime scene. Yet what
he finds inside begins to illuminate the murky past of Sarah
Hussain. Is there more to her than meets the eye?
No Man’s Nightingale is Ruth Rendell’s masterful
twenty-fourth installment in one of the great crime series
of all time.
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