Not in the Flesh - Ruth Rendell

Category: Adults, Contemporary, Detective, Novel
Language: English
Keywords: British Crime England Murder Murder mystery Mystery Ruth Rendell UK United Kingdom

Written by Ruth Rendell
Read by Nigel Anthony
Format: MP3
Unabridged

“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 10 years or so, wrapped in a purple cotton sheet.

“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 20 yards away from the woodland burial site, in the cellar of a disused cottage, another body is found…”