Not in the Flesh (US)
β Scribed by Rendell, Ruth
- Book ID
- 107527905
- Publisher
- Crown Publishing Group
- Year
- 2008
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 220 KB
- Series
- Inspector Wexford 21
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780307410320
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β¦ Synopsis
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...
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A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called βthe best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.β When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his masterβs first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate,