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 himself-by 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 stabbings-all 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.
