Kissing The Gunner's Daughter Author:Ruth Rendell Tancred House is home to Davina Flory, aging celebrity writer -- until the night when person or persons unknown slaughter Flory along with her husband and daughter, leaving alive only her granddaughter, Daisy. Detective Chief Inspector Wexford is strangely drawn to the young woman, his fatherly affection towards her heightened by a growing di... more »spleasure with his own daughter. As the days pass, Wexford learns of a missing gun, a missing woman and of the lethal consequences of the simple act of kissing the gunner's daughter. "Ruth Rendell is a literary Hitchcock when it comes to creating atmosphere and building suspense." (Philadelphia Inquirer)« less