Kissing The Gunner's Daughter: an engrossing and absorbing Wexford mystery from the award-winning queen...

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Ruth Rendell

Kissing The Gunner's Daughter

Name: Kissing The Gunner's Daughter
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ISBN: 9780099249115

an engrossing and absorbing Wexford mystery from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth Rendell...

Ruth Rendell

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Arrow
06 April 1993

Fiction & Literature; Crime & Mystery

Series: Wexford

The fifteenth book in the bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series, from the author of classic detective fiction and gripping psychological thrillers including End in Tears and Thirteen Steps Down.

It doesn't have to be Friday the thirteenth...

Completely captivating, this is a spine-tingling page-turner of a mystery from multi-million copy and SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author Ruth Rendell.

Perfect for fans of PD James, Ann Cleeves and Donna Leon.

'The most brilliant mystery novelist' -- Patricia Cornwell 'Psychologically acute and extremely disturbing, Ruth Rendell's work is outstanding' -- The Times 'Stark, edgy and punchy' --
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* The thirteenth of May is famously the unluckiest day of the year. Sergeant Caleb Martin of Kingsmarkham CID had no idea just how terminally unlucky it would prove, as he embarked upon his last day on earth...

Ten months later, Wexford is confronted with a murder scene of horrific brutality. At first the bloodbath at Tancred House looks like the desperate work of a burglar panicked into murder. The sole survivor of the massacre, seventeen-year-old Daisy Flory, remembers the events imperfectly, and her confused account of the fatal night seems to confirm this theory.

But more and more, Chief Inspector Wexford is convinced that the crime lies closer to home, and that it has sinister links to the murder of Sergeant Martin...

By: Ruth Rendell
Imprint: Arrow
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 177mm, Width: 111mm, Spine: 27mm
Weight: 224g
ISBN: 9780099249115
ISBN 10: 0099249111
Series: Wexford
Pages: 352
Publication Date: 06 April 1993
Recommended Age: From 0 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Kissing The Gunner's Daughter: an engrossing and absorbing Wexford mystery from the award-winning queen of crime, Ruth Rendell

Rendell's last few books haven't been up to her extraordinarily high standard, but Chief Inspector Wexford's first appearance since The Veiled One (1988) is cause for celebration. The crime under investigation - the murder of monstrous old novelist Davina Flory, her younger MP husband Harvey Copeland, and her daughter Naomi, along with the shooting of granddaughter Daisy - is thick with mysteries beyond whodunit: What were the two criminals looking for beyond a bit of jewelry? How did they make their escape? What's happened to Naomi's business partner, Joanne Garland, and what's her connection to Daisy's father, George (Gunner) Jones? What links the killings to a fatal bank-robbery a year before? Wexford, ruefully treating Daisy as a replacement for his beloved actress daughter Sheila, who's deserted him for an obnoxious, postmodern novelist, patiently sifts the stories of the large cast, setting off the string of quiet, continuous, steadily deepening revelations of character that are the hallmark of Rendell's best work. No matter that the final revelation is at once surprising, predictable (Rendell falls back on one of the oldest cliches of the genre), and anti-climactic. The story marks a masterful return to form for the supreme living exponent of the English detective story. (Kirkus Reviews)