Two Inspector Wexford Mysteries

Two Inspector Wexford Mysteries Synopsis

London's Inspector Wexford has two cases to solvea murdered wife and a missing husbandin this double dose of a ';masterful series' (Los Angeles Times). Now in one volume, two novels in ';one of the best-written detective series in the genre's history,' from a New York Timesbestselling and three-time Edgar Awardwinning author (The Washington Post). The Veiled One: ';Why on earth?' wonders London's chief inspector Reginald Wexford when a sixtyish housewife is found garroted in a shopping mall garage, her body concealed under a velvet shroud.

Before he can find the answer, he's nearly killed himselfby a politically motivated car bombing targeting his activist daughter. With the inspector in the hospital, the case falls to his partner, Mike Burden. But when a strange mother and son are suspected, Burdon's trail leads him down a very twisted road.

An Unkindness of Ravens: When a neighbor's husband vanishes, Chief Inspector Wexford suspects the cad most likely ran off with one of his girlfriends. However, there are a few nagging concerns, like the man's suspicious letter of resignation and his abandoned car. And is it just a fluke that his disappearance coincides with a rash of stabbingsall straight through the heart, all with male victims?

Behind the seemingly placid domesticity of Wexford's Sussex neighbors, there's a growing web of tangling secrets, double lives, and triple-crosses. An Edgar Award finalist, this is a ';mystery of the highest order' (The New Yorker).