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Da Margaret Parsons lig bliver fundet i skoven, sættes kriminalassistent Wexford og hans kollega Burden straks på sagen. Hvem kunne finde på at kvæle den øjensynligt ganske almindelige husmor og smide hendes lig i skoven? De garvede efterforskere er på bar bund, indtil de finder nogle mystiske digtsamlinger på husets loft dedikeret til Minna fra Doon. Margarets mand aner ikke, hvem Doon er, og Wexford mistænker, at Doons identitet er nøglen til mordgåden.Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) var en britisk forfatter, der primært var kendt for sine krimiromaner, og i særdeleshed for romanserien om kriminalassistent Reginald Wexford og hans makker, Mike Burden. Rendell bidrog i særlig grad til krimigenren ved hjælp af sine psykologiske thrillere, og det psykologiske satte hun i endnu højere grad fokus på i sit forfatterskab under pseudonymet Barbara Vine, hvorved krimigenren blev fravalgt.Wexfordserien er en række krimier skrevet af den verdenskendte krimiforfatterinde Ruth Rendell, der har kriminalassistenten Reginald Wexford som hovedperson og følger ham i hans jagt på kyniske kriminelle og maniske mordere.
Herbert Painters datter har i seksten år levet i skyggen af sin fars død. Han blev henrettet for mordet på sin arbejdsgiver, mrs. Primero, som han angiveligt havde myrdet for at få fingre i hendes penge. Men nu sås der tvivl om, hvorvidt det virkelig var Herbert Painter, der slog den gamle dame ihjel, og kriminalassistenterne Wexford og Burden bliver sat på sagen, der bliver mere og mere foruroligende, jo dybere de graver.Wexfordserien er en række krimier skrevet af den verdenskendte krimiforfatterinde Ruth Rendell, der har kriminalassistenten Reginald Wexford som hovedperson og følger ham i hans jagt på kyniske kriminelle og maniske mordere.Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) var en britisk forfatter, der primært var kendt for sine krimiromaner, og i særdeleshed for romanserien om kriminalassistent Reginald Wexford og hans makker, Mike Burden. Rendell bidrog i særlig grad til krimigenren ved hjælp af sine psykologiske thrillere, og det psykologiske satte hun i endnu højere grad fokus på i sit forfatterskab under pseudonymet Barbara Vine, hvorved krimigenren blev fravalgt.
Kriminalassistent Wexford og hans kollega Burden modtager et mærkeligt brev, hvori der står, at en ung kvinde ved navn Ann er blevet myrdet af en mand ved navn Geoff Smith. Alt, hvad der står om Smith, er, at han har en sort bil og er mørk, slank og ung. Det besynderlige er imidlertid, at de to politimænd ikke kan finde nogen som helst spor efter et mord, og de begynder at tro, at brevet bare er en dårlig spøg. Så går det på frygtelig vis op for dem, at der ganske rigtigt er sket et mord... og at de ikke aner, hvordan de skal finde frem til Geoff Smith, og om han overhovedet er morderen!Wexfordserien er en række krimier skrevet af den verdenskendte krimiforfatterinde Ruth Rendell, der har kriminalassistenten Reginald Wexford som hovedperson og følger ham i hans jagt på kyniske kriminelle og maniske mordere.Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) var en britisk forfatter, der primært var kendt for sine krimiromaner, og i særdeleshed for romanserien om kriminalassistent Reginald Wexford og hans makker, Mike Burden. Rendell bidrog i særlig grad til krimigenren ved hjælp af sine psykologiske thrillere, og det psykologiske satte hun i endnu højere grad fokus på i sit forfatterskab under pseudonymet Barbara Vine, hvorved krimigenren blev fravalgt.
Før sin bedste vens bryllup mødes Charlie Hatton med sine venner fra dartklubben på den lokale pub. Folk er vant til, at Charlie spiller smart og er ubehøvlet. Han lægger heller ikke skjul på, at han altid har masser af penge, selvom det aldrig er helt sikkert, hvor han har dem fra. Men denne aften er han særligt grov i replikken, og der er lige ved at udbryde slagsmål. Dagen efter bliver Charlies lig fisket op af floden, og kriminalassistent Wexford står med en svær sag. Det er nemlig svært at finde nogen, der ikke på et eller andet tidspunkt har haft lyst til at dræbe Charlie …Ruth Rendell (1930-2015) var en britisk forfatter, der primært var kendt for sine krimiromaner, og i særdeleshed for romanserien om kriminalassistent Reginald Wexford og hans makker, Mike Burden. Rendell bidrog i særlig grad til krimigenren ved hjælp af sine psykologiske thrillere, og det psykologiske satte hun i endnu højere grad fokus på i sit forfatterskab under pseudonymet Barbara Vine, hvorved krimigenren blev fravalgt.Wexfordserien er en række krimier skrevet af den verdenskendte krimiforfatterinde Ruth Rendell, der har kriminalassistenten Reginald Wexford som hovedperson og følger ham i hans jagt på kyniske kriminelle og maniske mordere.
The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Even the dead have something to hide... The discovery of Elizabeth Nightingale's broken body in the woods near her home could not have come as a bigger shock.
The eighteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. A young girl disappears, then another. A notorious paedophile is released back into the community.
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury - a human hand.The detection skills of Wexford, Burden and the other investigating officers of the Kingsmarkham Police Force are tested to the utmost to discover whether the murders are connected and to track down whoever is responsible.
The fourth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Nothing is ever quite what it seems... A man and his daughter lie dead after a car accident.
The sixteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. When a young, black woman goes missing in Kingsmarkham, Wexford must respond to a test not only of his powers of deduction, but of his basic beliefs and prejudices.
The fifteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. The thirteenth of May is famously the unluckiest day of the year.
A lump of concrete dropped deliberately from a little stone bridge over a relatively unfrequented road kills the wrong person.
A Reg Wexford mystery. In a desolate subterranean car park, Detective Chief Inspector Wexford has been too preoccupied to notice anything out of the ordinary - just a teenage girl in a red car, driving rather too fast. Only later does he learn of the car park victim, murdered with a length of wire.
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.
Wexford believed he'd solved Mrs Primero's murder fifteen years ago. It was no real mystery. Everyone knew Painter, her odd-job man, had done it. There had never been any doubt in anyone's mind. Until now... Henry Archery's son is engaged to Painter's daughter. Only Archery can't let the past remain buried.
What connects a kidnapped baby, a woman's body left to rot in a cove in Yugoslavia, a suspicious suicide and the century-old case of a wife who poisons her husband?
When the body of a brutally beaten girl is found in a quarry during a hedonistic hippy festival at Sundays near Kingsmarkham, Wexford is first on the scene. Through a web of lies and deceit Wexford uncovers a history of love and hate that began years earlier, and he realises that never has he witnessed a murder of such desperate passion.
But then he discovers that his nephew Howard is heading the investigation into the macabre murder of Loveday Morgan, whose body was found abandoned in Kenbourne Cemetery.Despite opposition from Howard and his team, Wexford is drawn to the case.
The twelfth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Wherever Reggie Wexford goes, death and intrigue are close on his heels.
When her fiance appeals to Wexford for help, believing that Natalie is using a false identity, the case of the Camargues is once more under investigation. Events soon take a gruesome twist and the pressure is on for Wexford to discover Natalie's true identity and to solve the mystery of the Camargue family, once and for all.
No Man's Nightingale: the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. Wexford retains a relish for solving puzzles and a curiosity about people which is invaluable in detective work.
The thirteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. The raven: not a particularly predatory bird, but far from soft and submissive, adopted as the symbol of a militant feminist group...
Chief Inspector Reg Wexford has retired from the crime force. He and his wife, Dora, now divide their time between Kingsmarkham and a coach house in Hampstead, belonging to their actress daughter, Sheila. Wexford takes great pleasure in his books, but, for all the benefits of a more relaxed lifestyle, he misses being the hand of the law.
The ninth book to feature the classic crime-solving Detective Chief Inspector Wexford. Called in to investigate, Wexford's curiosity only deepens when he discovers that the Hathall household has been meticulously cleaned but for a single distinctive palm print.
None of it could be proved, not the stalking, not the stares or the conspiratorial smiles, not the killings, not any of the signs Targo had made because he knew Wexford knew and could do nothing about it.'Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short, muscular figure.
The River Brede had burst its banks, and not a single house in the valley had escaped flooding. The teenagers are fifteen and thirteen, the sitter's in her thirties, they can all swim and the house is miles above the floods. There hadn't been anything like this kind of rain in living memory. The Subaqua Task Force could find no trace of Giles.
The seventeenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. A by-pass is planned in the sleepy village of Kingsmarkham, a move that would destroy its peace and natural habitat forever. Wexford's wife Dora joins the protest movement, but Wexford must be more circumspect.
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