No Man''s Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell''s bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series.
Sarah Hussain was not popular with many people in the community of Kingsmarkham. She was born of mixed parentage - a white Irishwoman and an immigrant Indian Hindu. She was also the Reverend of St Peter''s Church.
But it comes as a profound shock to everyone when she is found strangled in the Vicarage.
A garrulous cleaner, Maxine, also shared by the Wexfords, discovers the body. In his comparatively recent retirement, the former Detective Chief Inspector is devoting much time to reading, and is deep into Edward Gibbon''s The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. He has little patience with Maxine''s prattle.
But when his old friend Mike Burden asks if he might like to assist on this case as Crime Solutions Adviser (unpaid), Wexford is obliged to pay more precise attention to all available information.
The old instincts have not been blunted by a life where he and Dora divide their time between London and Kingsmarkham. Wexford retains a relish for solving puzzles and a curiosity about people which is invaluable in detective work.
For all his experience and sophistication, Burden tends to jump to conclusions. But he is wise enough to listen to the man whose office he inherited, and whose experience makes him a most formidable ally.
Ficha técnica
Editorial: Arrow (Random)
ISBN: 9780099585862
Idioma: Inglés
Encuadernación: Tapa blanda
Fecha de lanzamiento: 11/04/2014
Año de edición: 2014
Especificaciones del producto
Escrito por Ruth Rendell
Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) fue una de las autoras británicas de intriga y misterio más conocidas y exitosas del siglo XX. Sus títulos (algunos de ellos publicados bajo el seudónimo de Barbara Vine), de tramas apasionantes y perspicaz observación sicológica, han vendido más de 20 millones de ejemplares en todo el mundo. Su indudable calidad literaria le ha hecho ganar los premios más prestigiosos del género y varias de sus obras han sido llevadas al cine y a la pequeña pantalla.