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Not in the Flesh 
Author(s) Ruth Rendell Country United Kingdom Language English Series Inspector Wexford # 21 Genre(s) Crime/Mystery novel Publisher Hutchinson Publication date 2007 Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) Pages 372 pp ISBN 0091920590 OCLC Number 123796945 Preceded by The Water's Lovely Followed by Portobello Not in the Flesh is 2007 novel by British crime-writer Ruth Rendell. The novel is the 21st entry in the Inspector Wexford series.
Plot summary
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury - a human hand. The body, as Chief Inspector Wexford is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton shroud. The post mortem can not reveal the precise cause of death. The only clue is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs. Although it covers a relatively short period of time, the police computer stores a long list of missing persons. Men, women and children disappear at an alarming rate, something like 500 every day nationwide. So Wexford knows he is going to have a job on his hands to identify the corpse. And then, only about twenty yards away from the woodland burial site, in the cellar of a disused cottage, another body is found. The detection skills of Wexford, Burden and the other investigating officers of the Kingsmarkham Police Force are tested to the utmost to discover whether the murders are connected and to track down whoever is responsible.
Ruth Rendell — The Inspector Wexford Novels From Doon with Death • Wolf to the Slaughter • A New Lease of Death • The Best Man to Die • A Guilty Thing Surprised • No More Dying Then • Murder Being Once Done • Some Lie and Some Die • Shake Hands Forever • A Sleeping Life • Put on by Cunning • The Speaker of Mandarin • An Unkindness of Ravens • The Veiled One • Kissing the Gunner's Daughter • Simisola • Road Rage • Harm Done • The Babes in the Wood • End in Tears • Not in the Flesh • The Monster in the Box • The Vault •
Categories:- 2007 novels
- Novels by Ruth Rendell
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