No Man's Nightingale
A Mystery Thriller, British Literature, Thriller book. A good, standard, Wexford mystery in which, when retired, good old Reg...
A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. Maxine, the gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When called on by his old deputy, detective inspector Mike Burden, Wexford, intrigued by the unusual circumstances of the murder, leaps at the chance to tag along with the investigators.A single mother to a teenage girl, Hussein was a woman working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she was of mixed race and working to modernize the church. Could racism or sexism have played a factor in her murder?As Wexford searches the Vicar’s house, he sees a book on her bedside table. Inside the book is a letter serving as a bookmark. Without thinking much, Wexford puts it into his pocket. Wexford soon...
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- Pages: 320 pages
- ISBN: 9780091953843 / 91953847
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I wanted to like this book more than I did. The various characters and the changes in small town English life that affect them were interesting and added texture to the book, but the plot was wobbly and gradually ran out of steam. Perhaps I would have liked it better if I had read some of the preceding 23 books in this series! I enjoyed this story in the end, but there were moments I couldn't figure out who's who and where is this taking place now. I had to go back and reread--maybe I had missed a quick transition, or maybe the character is not recognizable by name along. I can identify with the retired Inspector Wexford, being 'invisible' in a world where... A good, standard, Wexford mystery in which, when retired, good old Reg tries to help solver a murder mystery involving a female vicar. However, I did find it a bit convoluted in places, as if Ms Rendell had to stand on her head, etc., in order to make thinks come out right. There's also the case of her making a mistake involving heredity,...
