Two Inspector Wexford Mysteries: The Veiled One and An Unkindness of Ravens (The Inspector Wexford Mysteries)

This volume contains two Inspector Wexford mysteries. In The Veiled One, Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford investigates the murder of a woman found garroted in a shopping mall garage, her body concealed under a velvet shroud. When Wexford is hospitalized following a car bombing targeting his activist daughter, his partner Mike Burden takes over the case, which leads them to suspect a strange mother and son. In An Unkindness of Ravens, Chief Inspector Wexford looks into the disappearance of a neighbor's husband. While initially suspecting the man ran off with a girlfriend, Wexford notes troubling details: a suspicious resignation letter and an abandoned car. The disappearance coincides with a series of stabbings—all victims male, all killed through the heart. Beneath the surface of Wexford's Sussex community lies a network of secrets, double lives, and hidden betrayals.