A sleeping life

By Ruth Rendell

Subjects: Mystery, Police, Inspector Wexford (Fictitious character), England, fiction, Large type books, Inspector Wexford (Fictional character), Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Fiction, Mystery fiction, Wexford, inspector (fictitious character), fiction, Detective and mystery stories

Description: Criminals always took their holidays in August, Chief Inspector Wexford erroneously reflected as he arrived home early that hot summer night. Thirty minutes later he was in a field outside the neighboring village of Kingsmarkham gazing down at a woman viciously stabbed to death. (from the dust jacket)