Inspecteur Wexford Reeks

Deze serie volgt het werk van een ervaren Engelse rechercheur die complexe zaken oplost in een schijnbaar rustige, maar vaak misleidende omgeving. Samen met zijn team ontrafelt hij duistere geheimen en ingewikkelde motieven die zich onder de oppervlakte van het gewone leven verbergen. Met nadruk op karakterpsychologie en nauwgezet onderzoek biedt het boeiende lectuur voor liefhebbers van klassieke detectiveverhalen.

No more dying then : [a chief inspector Wexford mystery]

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From Doon with Death
Ruth Rendell
182bladzijden
7 uur lezen
'Love And Death,' Said Chief Inspector Wexford. 'Those Were The Only Two Sensational Things That Ever Happened To Margaret Parsons, Love And Death. The Thing Is They Both Happened In My District.'The Police Knew All About Margaret Parsons' Life, And By The Look Of It, It Was Very Dull. Margaret Parsons Had Been A 'Good Woman'. Religious, Old-Fashioned And Respectable, Her Life Had Been As Spotless And Ordinary As Her Home, As Unexciting And Dependable As Her Marriage. But It Was Not Margaret Parsons' Life That Interested Wexford. It Was Her Death. She Had Been A Predictable, Ordinary Woman - But Now She Had Met A Death Of Passion And Violence For Which There Seemed No Motive Or Clue.
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Sins of the Father
Ruth Rendell
It was a brutal, vicious crime -- sixteen years old. A helpless old woman battered to death with an axe. Harry Painter hung for it, and Chief Inspector Wexford is certain they executed the right man. But Reverend Archery has doubts . . . because his son wants to marry the murderer's beautiful, brilliant daughter. He begins unravelling the past, only to discover that murder breeds murder -- and often conceals even deeper secrets . . .
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Wolf to the Slaughter
Ruth Rendell
184bladzijden
7 uur lezen
Chief Inspector Wexford investigates the circumstances surrounding a blood-soaked hotel room which lacks any other signs of a victim, and the disappearance of a beautiful, promiscuous woman and the bundle of cash she'd had in her pocket.
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Geknipt voor lijk
Ruth Rendell
211bladzijden
8 uur lezen
De identificatie van de slachtoffers na een ernstig auto-ongeluk wordt een mysterieuze zaak, vooral als de chauffeur van de wagen op verdacht grote voet blijkt te leven.
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A Guilty Thing Surprised
Ruth Rendell
256bladzijden
9 uur lezen
The second book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. Called in to investigate, Chief Inspector Wexford quickly determines that the Nightingales were considered the perfect couple - wealthy, attractive and without an enemy in the world. Someone who hated - or perhaps loved - her enough to beat her to death.
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No more dying then : [a chief inspector Wexford mystery]
Ruth Rendell
Detective Mike Burden's wife has just died, and his sister-in-law is staying at his house to help take care of his two children. He is so utterly miserable, and grief stricken, that he can't see how much they all need him to focus himself on his home life. Partially because of his inability to deal with his personal life, when a 5-year-old boy disappears, he throws himself whole-heartedly into the investigation. He becomes over involved with the boy's mother. The recent disappearance of a 12-year-old girl makes the case more worrisome.
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Murder Being Once Done
Ruth Rendell
The seventh book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. It seems fitting that the final resting place of a girl's body should be in a graveyard. But this is no peaceful burial. This is a brutal murder scene. Under strict orders from his doctor to indulge in no criminal investigation, Wexford is sent to London for a break away from the pressures of the Kingsmarkham police force. But then he discovers that his nephew Howard is heading the investigation into the macabre murder of Loveday Morgan, whose body was found abandoned in Kenbourne Cemetery. Despite opposition from Howard and his team, Wexford is drawn to the case. And when he unearths Loveday's connection to a religious cult whose leader was imprisoned for sexual absue, he relentlessly pursues this sinister new lead...
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Some lie and some die
Ruth Rendell
192bladzijden
7 uur lezen
A mutilated body found at a rock festival. In spite of dire predictions, the rock festival in Kingsmarkham seemed to be going off without a hitch, until the hideously disfigured body is discovered in a nearby quarry. And soon Wexford is investigating the links between a local girl gone bad and a charismatic singer who inspires an unwholesome devotion in his followers.Some Lie and Some Dieis a devilishly absorbing novel, in which Wexford's deductive powers come up against the aloof arrogance of pop stardom. With her Inspector Wexford novels, Ruth Rendell, winner of the Mystery Writers of America Grand Master Award, has added layers of depth, realism and unease to the classic English mystery. For the canny, tireless, and unflappable policeman is an unblinking observer of human nature, whose study has taught him that under certain circumstances the most unlikely people are capable of the most appalling crimes. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Shake Hands Forever
Ruth Rendell
The Macmillan Graded Readers series is one of the most popular and respected series of simplified readers for learners of English.
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A sleeping life
Ruth Rendell
Rhoda Comfrey's death seemed unremarkable; the real mystery was her life. In A Sleeping Life , master mystery writer Ruth Rendell unveils an elaborate web of lies and deception painstakingly maintained by a troubled soul. A wallet found in Comfrey's handbag leads Inspector Wexford to Mr. Grenville West, a writer whose plots revel in the blood, thunder, and passion of dramas of old; whose current whereabouts are unclear; and whose curious secretary--the plain Polly Flinders--provides the Inspector with more questions than answers. And when a second Grenville West comes to light, Wexford faces a dizzying array of possible scenarios--and suspects--behind the Comfrey murder. Brilliantly entertaining, exceptionally crafted, A Sleeping Life evokes the dark realities, half-truths, and flights of fancy that constitute a life.
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Put on by cunning
Ruth Rendell
208bladzijden
8 uur lezen
Sir Manuel Carmargue, one of the greatest flautists of his time, was dead. Misadventure. An old man, ankle-deep in snow, he lost his foothold in the dark, slipping into the water to be trapped under a lid of ice. Only a glove remained to point to where he lay, one of its fingers rising out of the drifts. There's nothing Chief Inspector Wexford likes better than an open-and-shut case. They're so restful. And yet there are one or two niggling doubts - and the disturbing return of Carmargue's daughter, now a considerable heiress, after an absence of nineteen years. Is Wexford going to listen to that nagging inner voice of his? And if he does, what exactly does he plan to do?
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Inspector Wexford Mystery: Speaker of Mandarin - First Time in Paperback!
Ruth Rendell
213bladzijden
8 uur lezen
Chief Inspector Wexford is in China, visiting ancient tombs and palaces with a group of British tourists. After their return to England, one of his fellow tourists is found murdered. As he questions other members of the group, Wexford finds secrets of greed, treachery, theft, and adultery, leading the distressed inspector to ask not who is innocent, but who is least guilty . . .
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An unkindness of ravens
Ruth Rendell
272bladzijden
10 uur lezen
Unkindness: the collective word for a group of ravens. They are not particularly predatory birds . . . but neither are they soft and submissive. Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he was merely doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband. And he certainly didn't expect to be investigating a most unusual homicide . . .
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The Veiled One
Ruth Rendell
288bladzijden
11 uur lezen
A Reg Wexford mystery. In a desolate subterranean car park, Detective Chief Inspector Wexford has been too preoccupied to notice anything out of the ordinary - just a teenage girl in a red car, driving rather too fast. Only later does he learn of the car park victim, murdered with a length of wire.
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De erfgename
Ruth Rendell
367bladzijden
13 uur lezen
Een bankoverval, een dode en een pistool dat verdwenen is. Inspecteur Wexford staat voor een raadsel. In een afgelegen landhuis worden drie mensen vermoord, de vierde is gewond. Juwelen ontbreken, motieven te over, een vermiste dame en een opgehangen jongeman in het bos.
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Simisola
Ruth Rendell
349bladzijden
13 uur lezen
Inspecteur Wexford wordt geconfronteerd met de mysterieuze verdwijning van de donker gekleurde dochter van zijn huisarts.
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Road Rage
Ruth Rendell
384bladzijden
14 uur lezen
A by-pass is planned in Kingsmarkham - that will destroy its peace and the natural habitat forever. Dora Wexford joins the protest movement. But Wexford must be more circumspect. Trouble is expected. But before the protesters make their presence felt, the
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Harm done
Ruth Rendell
480bladzijden
17 uur lezen
Two young girls disappear, but return home unharmed some days later. Around the same time, a convicted paedophile is released back into the community. The residents of an estate in Kingsmarkham are up in arms, and even prepared to take the law into their
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The Babes in the Wood
Ruth Rendell
323bladzijden
12 uur lezen
This was an investigation which would call into question many of Wexford's assumptions about the way people behave, including his own family. . . In The Babes in the Wood Ruth Rendell brings her keen psychological insight and rigorous moral sense to bear on Wexford’s assumptions about the way people behave, including his own family, as he investigates the mysterious disappearance of two teenagers and their babysitter. There hadn't been anything in living memory like the kind of rain that had caused the River Brede to burst its banks and flood the homes in the area. The Subaqua Task Force could find no trace of the missing teenagers and their babysitter…but their mother was still convinced that her children were dead.
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End in Tears
Ruth Rendell
384bladzijden
14 uur lezen
A father's worst nightmare. It's first light and George Marshalson's daughter hasn't returned home. He doesn't yet know that she never will -- that her body lies prone just yards from the family house. Or that he will himself make the shocking discovery.
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Not in the flesh
Ruth Rendell
384bladzijden
14 uur lezen
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, and the post-mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. Wexford knows
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Inspector Wexford: Slapende honden
Een Inspecteur Wexford-mysterie / druk 1
Ruth Rendell
255bladzijden
9 uur lezen
Iedereen heeft wel iets weggestopt in een doosje van zijn ziel... Ook inspecteur Wexford. In dit allerlaatste deel komt de eerste zaak van Wexford terug: een aantal onopgeloste moorden die wat Wexford betreft allemaal naar Eric Targo wijzen, maar waarvoor nooit bewijs werd gevonden. Deze Targo, altijd met een hond in de buurt, heeft de inspecteur jarenlang gestalkt, alsof hij hem iets duidelijk wilde maken. Nu duikt de psychopaat opeens weer op. Is het toeval of niet? Zal Wexford eindelijk de oude zaken kunnen oplossen terwijl hij ook aan een nieuwe moordzaak en de verdwijning van een meisje werkt? En zijn de verbanden die hij tussen de nieuwe en de oude zaken ziet terecht, of wil hij de overeenkomsten zien? Soms kun je slapende honden beter niet wakker maken.
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The vault
Ruth Rendell
In the peaceful garden of a London house, a manhole cover has just been raised. Inside the cellar lie three bodies. Two men and a woman. None carry identification. The men have been there for twelve years; the woman for only two. For Inspector Wexford, this is a case worth coming out of retirement for. Soon he is trying to establish who the victims in the vault are - and most importantly who put them there. But a shocking development in his private life means that his search for the truth is about to become a lot more complicated ...
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No Man's Nightingale
Ruth Rendell
352bladzijden
13 uur lezen
No Man's Nightingale- the eagerly anticipated twenty-fourth title in Ruth Rendell's bestselling Detective Chief Inspector Wexford series. The woman vicar of St Peter's Church may not be popular among the community of Kingsmarkham. But it still comes as a profound shock when she is found strangled in her vicarage. Inspector Wexford is retired, but he retains a relish for solving mysteries especially when they are as close to home as this one is. So when he's asked whether he will assist on the case, he readily agrees. But why did the vicar die? And is anyone else in Kingsmarkham in danger? What Wexford doesn't know is that the killer is far closer than he, or anyone else, thinks.
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