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1) Simisola
Publisher
Lance Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When Melanie Akande, daughter of Inspector Wexford's Nigerian-born physician, goes missing, the family brace themselves for a case of abduction-- maybe murder. Melanie had an appointment to see Annette Bystock the day she disappeared, and Annette is found strangled to death in her apartment. During the hunt for Annette's killers, the body of a young black girl is found buried in the Sussex countryside. Wexford must battle through the prejudices of...
3) Simisola
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
While searching for a missing person, Inspector Wexford discovers multiple murders of victims who resemble the missing girl leading him to reevaluate his ideas about race and gender relations.
4) Road rage
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chief Inspector Wexford and his team of police officers race against time to learn the identity of a group of environmental terrorists who have kidnapped and are threatening to kill five hostages, one of whom is Wexford's wife, Dora.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chief inspector Wexford had almost made up his mind that he would never again set eyes on Eric Targo's short, muscular figure. And yet there he was, back in Kingsmarkham, still with that cocky, strutting walk. Years earlier, Targo stalked and taunted Wexford, daring him to press charges after a woman was found strangled in her bedroom. Over the years there are more unsolved, apparently motiveless murders in the town, and Wexford suspects that the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
At first there was no reason to link the killings. The first one, months earlier, seemed totally random: a lump of concrete pushed off an overpass onto a passing car. By contrast, the gruesome bludgeoning death of Amber Marshalson, returning home late from a night out clubbing with friends, was obviously calculated. The killer had been seen waiting for the girl in a nearby wood. But when Chief Inspector Wexford discovers that Amber had been the driver...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Former Kingsmarham Chief Inspector Wexford is called out of retirement to help London detectives investigate when an underground chamber in a London home is opened to reveal four bodies--one of which was unexpected--but as Wexford follows the trail of clues to the murders committed decades before, a family tragedy brings him back to Kingsmarham, where he finds his role as investigator transformed into that of a victim.
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