'An unkindness' is the collective word for a group of ravens. They are not particularly predatory birds... but neither are they soft and submissive. Now the raven has become the symbol used by a feminist group whose attitude to male sex is anything but soft and submissive.
Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he was merely doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband. And he certainly didn't expect to be investigating a most unusual homicide...