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NO MAN'S NIGHTINGALE
By: Ruth Rendell
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 โbelovedโ (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 heโs 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 vicarโs 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 vicarโs house alongside the police, he sees a book, Newmanโs Apologia Pro Vita Sua, lying on Hussainโs 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 errorโheโs 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 Manโs Nightingale is Ruth Rendellโs masterful twenty-fourth installment in one of the great crime series of all time.
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