Kissing the Gunner's Daughter is a 1992 novel by the distinguished British mystery writer Ruth Rendell

Ruth Rendell

Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE, , who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries....

, featuring her popular recurring character Inspector Reg Wexford and his sidekick, Mike Burden.

Plot introduction

The members of a well-to-do family in Kingsmarkham are shot to death during dinner. Only the young daughter survives, badly wounded, and her fragmentary memories are not of much help to Wexford. As she recovers, a romance blooms with a young American tourist.