Agreeing to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband, Detective Inspector Wexford thinks he is merely doing a neighborly good deed. Instead, he learns of a militant feminist group called The Ravens, and must investigate a homicide.

'A thoroughly entertaining and absorbing little publication, set out in an accessible and easy-to-read style' - The Bookbag Why are geese in a gaggle? Are crows really murderous? And what makes lions so proud? Collective nouns are one of the most charming oddities of the English language, often with seemingly

The thirteenth book to feature the classic crime-solving detective, Chief Inspector Wexford. The raven: not a particularly predatory bird, but far from soft and submissive, adopted as the symbol of a militant feminist group... Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he was merely doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed

A girl whose touch can kill battles for her life in the courts of a dangerous, drowned city.

An Unkindness of Ravens is a poetry book filled with reticence and revelation, secrecy and suprise.