972 554cd890-1255-4758-b92e-aa9411286148 The Veiled One Ruth Rendell calibre (2.83.0) [https://calibre-ebook.com] 1989-11-12T23:00:00+00:00 <div><p>Who would garrote a middle-aged housewife and leave her body in the parking garage of a suburban shopping mall? Chief Inspector Wexford is no sooner on the case than a car bomb's explosion lands him in the hospital. It's now up to Mike Burden to step in and solve the case. He's got a suspect . . . but will he be able to make him talk?</p><h3>From Publishers Weekly</h3><p>Elderly Gwen Robson is found murdered in a shopping-mall garage and Inspector Wexford and partner Mike Burden investigate. "Rendell's reputation for literary grace, ingenious plots and arresting characters is borne out again in her latest stunning mystery," enthused PW . "It's a spellbinder." <br>Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. </p><h3>Review</h3><p>“Ruth Rendell has created, in canny Wexford and naïve Burden, one of the genre’s most durable, complex, and affecting human misalliances.” —<em>The </em><em>New York Times Book Review</em></p><p>“It’s a spellbinder.” —<em>Publishers Weekly</em></p></div> Fawcett 9780099602804 9461226c-3fb6-49e0-bc61-93ea6bdd9e3c eng Mystery & Detective Traditional British Fiction