An Unkindness of Ravens
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| Author | Ruth Rendell |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Series | Inspector Wexford #13 |
| Genre(s) | Crime / Mystery novel |
| Publisher | Hutchinson |
| Released | 15 April 1985 |
| Media type | Print (Hardcover) |
| Pages | 269 pp |
| ISBN | ISBN 0-09-160200-9 |
| Preceded by | The Tree of Hands |
| Followed by | The New Girlfriend |
An Unkindness of Ravens is a novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. It was first published in 1985, and features her popular protagonist Inspector Wexford, and is the 13th entry in the series. On American publication, it was shortlisted for the MWA Edgar Award, alongside another Rendell novel, The Tree of Hands, meaning she has the remarkable distinction of being one of only two authors in the award's history to have had two novels on the shortlist in any one year (the other being Charlotte Armstrong).
[edit] Plot summary
When Wexford does a favour for his wife - to look into the disappearance of one of their neighbours' husbands - everything he finds seems to confirm his first inkling: that this is simply another case of a bored middle-aged man having run off with a younger woman. However, when Rodney Williams is found dead, and another local man is stabbed in his car, Wexford finds himself thrown into an investigationg involving a militant feministic organisation known as "Arria", who have taken the raven as their symbol.
| Ruth Rendell The Inspector Wexford Novels |
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| From Doon With Death | Wolf to the Slaughter | The Best Man to Die | A New Lease of Death | A Guilty Thing Surprised | No More Dying Then | Murder Being Once Done | Some Lie and Some Die | Shake Hands Forever | A Sleeping Life | Put on by Cunning | The Speaker of Mandarin | An Unkindness of Ravens | The Veiled One | Kissing the Gunner's Daughter | Simisola | Road Rage | Harm Done | The Babes in the Wood | End in Tears |
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