Kissing the Gunner's Daughter Author:Ruth Rendell For a Kingsmarkham CID sergeant, 13 May was the day he died--carrying a fake gun confiscated from his schoolboy son... and the mysterious trigger of five more murders. A year later Chief Inspector Wexford is called to Tancred House, where grande dame Davina Flory and her family lie shot to death in a tableau of blood. The only survivor, 17-year-... more »old Daisy Flory, insists her life is finished anyway. A strange girl... who stirs feelings in Wexford that are too close to home. But right now he must focus all his formidable powers of thought on a case with no witnesses, two suspects vanished into thin air, clues that range from grooves inside a gun barrel to a blackmailer left dangling from a tree--and a kaleidoscope of motives from greed and revenge to sex and mania.« less