No Man's Nightingale

Annotation
The enthralling new novel in Rendells masterful Inspector Wexford series, which will soon mark its fiftieth anniversary.

A female vicar named Sarah Hussein is discovered strangled in her Kingsmarkham vicarage. Maxine, the gossipy cleaning woman who discovers her body, happens to also be in the employ of retired Chief Inspector Wexford and his wife. When called on by his old deputy, detective inspector Mike Burden, 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 working in a male-dominated profession. Moreover, she was of mixed race and working to modernize the church. Could racism or sexism have played a factor in her murder?

As Wexford searches the Vicars house, he sees a book on her bedside table. Inside the book is a letter serving as a bookmark. Without thinking much, Wexford puts it into his pocket. Wexford soon realizes he has made a grave error in removing a piece of valuable evidence from the scene without telling anybody. Yet what he finds inside begins to illuminate the murky past of Hussein. Is there more to her than meets the eye?

Series
	Inspector Wexford mystery
	1	From Doon with death
	2	Wolf to the slaughter
	3	Sins of the fathers
	4	The Best man to die
	5	A Guilty thing surprised
	6	No more dying then
	7	Murder being once done
	8	Some lie and some die
	9	Shake hands forever
	10	A Sleeping life
	11	Death notes
	12	The Speaker of Mandarin
	13	An Unkindness of ravens
	14	The Veiled one
	15	Kissing the gunner's daughter
	16	Simisola
	17	Road rage
	18	Harm done
	19	The Babes in the wood
	20	End in tears
	21	Not in the flesh
	22	The Monster in the box
	23	The Vault
	24	No man's nightingale