Not In The Flesh
A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.
When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master's first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a precious mushroom but the bones and tendons of what is clearly a human hand. In Not in the Flesh, Chief Inspector Wexford tries to piece together events that took place eleven years earlier, a time when someone was secretly interred in a secluded patch of English countryside. Now Wexford and his team will need to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the dead man among the eighty-five people in this part of England who have disappeared over the past decade. Then, when a second body is discovered nearby, Wexford experiences a feeling that's become a rarity for the veteran policeman: surprise. As Wexford painstakingly moves to resolve these multiple mysteries, long-buried secrets are brought to daylight, and Ruth Rendell once again proves why she has been hailed as our greatest living mystery writer.
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Ruth RendellCondition
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- Publisher : Crown
- Language : English Hardcover : 320 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0307406814 ISBN-13: 978-0307406811
- Item Weight : 1.15 pounds : 6.35 x 1.1 x 9.15 inches