Ravens are not particularly predatory birds, but neither are they soft and submissive. The collective noun for them is an "unkindness"...The raven is a symbol used by a feminist group whose attitude to the opposite sex is anything but soft and submissive. Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he was only doing a neighbourly good deed when he agreed to talk to Joy Williams about her missing husband. He didn't expect to be investigating a homicide...