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Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 21
Language
English
Description
When a man hunting for truffles in the wood discovers a human hand, Chief Inspector Wexford becomes involved in the case. When a second body is found nearby, the detection skills of Wexford, Burden, and the other officers of the Kingsmarkham Police Force, are tested to the utmost.
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Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 9
Language
English
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Description
Chief Inspector Wexford struggles to find a motive, reason, and suspect for the killing of Angela Hathall.
Author
Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 6
Language
English
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Description
After two children are kidnapped, one's body turns up, and the search turns into a murder investigation and a race against time.
4) Road rage
Author
Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 16
Language
English
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Description
In Britain, Chief Inspector Wexford hunts for eco- terrorists who abducted five people, including his wife. They threaten to kill them unless the government halts the construction of a highway through scenic countryside.
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Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 12
Language
English
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Rodney Williams's disappearance seems typical to Chief Inspector Wexford -- a simple case of a man running off with a woman other than his wife. But when another woman reports that her husband is missing, the case turns unpleasantly complex.
Author
Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 8
Language
English
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A local rock festival appears to be going off without a hitch, until the terribly disfigured body of a local girl turns up in a nearby quarry, and the prime suspect becomes charismatic rock star Zeno Vedast.
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Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 13
Language
English
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Description
Who would garrote a middle-aged housewife and leave her body in the parking garage of a suburban shopping mall? Chief Inspector Wexford is no sooner on the case than a car bomb's explosion lands him in the hospital. It's now up to Mike Burden to step in and solve the case. He's got a suspect ... but will he be able to make him talk?
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Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 5
Language
English
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Description
Elizabeth Nightingale found peace and tranquility on her nightly walks through the rich, dense forests surrounding Myfleet Manor. But the peace she treasured was shattered one night when she found death waiting in the woods. Chief Inspector Wexford and his colleague Inspector Burden find a most unsavory case on their hands -- and must use all their wit and wisdom to solve it.
Author
Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 4
Language
English
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Description
The fatal car accident involving the stockbroker Fanshawe couldn't possibly be connected with the murder of a cocky little lorry driver. But was it a coincidence that the latter died the day after Mrs Fanshawe regained consciousness? Inspector Wexford investigates.
10) End in tears
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Series
Language
English
Description
While investigating a series of unrelated murders, Inspector Wexford discovers that the victim of a piece of falling concrete, pushed off a highway overpass, is somehow linked to the bludgeoning death of a teenager killed after a late night out with her friends.
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Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 18
Language
English
Description
With floods threatening both the town of Kingsmarkham and his own home and no end to the rain in sight, Chief Inspector Wexford already has his hands full when he learns that two local teenagers have gone missing along with their sitter, Joanna Troy. Their hysterical mother is convinced that all three have drowned, and as the hours stretch into days Wexford suspects a case of kidnapping, perhaps connected with an unusual sect called the Church of...
Author
Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 3
Language
English
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Description
The third book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Anita Margolis has vanished. Dark and exquisite, Anita's character is as mysterious as her disappearance. There was no body, no crime - nothing more concrete than an anonymous letter and the intriguing name of Smith. According to headquarters, it wasn't to be considered a murder enquiry at all. With the letter providing them with only one questionable lead to follow,...
13) Harm done
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Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 17
Language
English
Description
Chief Inspector Wexford investigates a pair of child abductions that appear to have more to do with domestic violence than a recently released pedophile.
14) The vault
Author
Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 23
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
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Description
When three bodies are discovered in a house in St. John's Wood, former Chief Inspector Wexford is pulled out of retirement to follow a complex trail of clues, only to have his life thrown into turmoil by a devastating personal tragedy.
15) A sleeping life
Author
Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 10
Language
English
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Description
Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life. In A Sleeping Life, master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas of old; whose current whereabouts are unclear; and whose curious secretary--the...
16) Simisola
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Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 15
Language
English
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Description
In the quiet Sussex country town of Kingsmarkham, the daughter of Nigerian physician Raymond Akande is missing. It's probably nothing, says Dr. Akande to his friend and client Chief Inspector Wexford, whose help he enlists. But the days that follow prove the doctor dreadfully wrong. A young woman is found murdered not Melanie, but the last person to have seen and spoken to her. A second woman's body is discovered, again not Melanie's, but like her,...
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Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 22
Language
English
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Over the years there have been several unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town of Kingsmarkham, and Wexford (as a young policeman) quietly suspected that the increasingly prosperous Targo -- van driver, property developer, kennel owner, and animal lover -- was behind them. Now, half a lifetime later, Inspector Wexford spots Targo back in Kingsmarkham after a long absence.
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Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 14
Publisher
Mysterious
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Investigating the murder of a socialite family, Inspector Wexford is forced to face his own deepest feelings. Called "one of Rendell's darkest and most subtle character studies" (SF Chronicle).
19) Dead man's grip
Author
Series
Roy Grace volume 7
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Carly Chase is still traumatized ten days after being in a fatal traffic accident which kills a teenage student from Brighton University. Then she receives news that turns her entire world into a living nightmare. The drivers of the other two vehicles involved have been found tortured and murdered.
Author
Series
Inspector Wexford mystery volume 24
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
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Description
A female Vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham Vicarage. The gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, Maxine, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When detective inspector Mike Burden calls him, 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...
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