This Edgar Award finalist from the New York Times-bestselling author is a “suspense mystery of the highest order” (The New Yorker). For London’s Chief Inspector Reg Wexford, it wasn’t an official call. He was just being neighborly when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband, Rodney. Apparently, he went to Ipswich on business and never came home. Wexford has an idea what … home. Wexford has an idea what happened: He most likely ran off with one of his girlfriends.
However, there are a few nagging concerns, like Rodney’s suspicious letter of resignation and his abandoned car. And is it just a fluke that his disappearance coincides with a rash of stabbings–all straight through the heart, all with male victims. Wexford’s detective instincts must take flight in order to bring down a murderer. Or two. Or three. Because, behind the seemingly placid domesticity of his Sussex neighbors, there is a growing web of tangling secrets, double lives, and triple-crosses.
“Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America’s prestigious Edgar Award, is regarded as one of the top mystery writers working today. With An Unkindness of Ravens, she shows, once again, that reputation is well-deserved” (Los Angeles Times).
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I could not put this book down. It was extremely well-written with very well-developed characters. At the same time, it leaves the reader not knowing how it all ends. I could not put it down, did not want to stop reading, but did not want the book to end.
a very good mystery? Kept my guessing.
Ruth Rendell is one of my favorite writers.
Absorbing, but I figured out “who done it” fairly army on.
Love most of Ruth Rendell work’s. This is no exception. Her characters always seem a little “off”. The ending is always unexpected.
I have read Ruth Randell’s books when they first were published. Still very good but dated. Like a Christie still fun to read but police, forensics would never work this way. And of course the story is totally far fetched.
Like all the books in this series, it is engrossing, nuanced, extremely well-written and evocative and just a great mystery and human drama.