An Unkindness of Ravens - Ruth Rendell

Unkindness?

An unkindness’ is the collective word for a group of ravens.

They are not particularly predatory birds… but neither are they soft and submissive.

Now the raven has become the symbol used by a feminist group whose attitude to the male sex is anything but 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…