Not in the Flesh

by Ruth Rendell | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 0091920590 Global Overview for this book
Registered by SabinaLorenz of Wien Bezirk 19 - Döbling, Wien Austria on 10/6/2011
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Journal Entry 1 by SabinaLorenz from Wien Bezirk 19 - Döbling, Wien Austria on Thursday, October 6, 2011
Searching for truffles in a wood, a man and his dog unearth something less savoury - a human hand.
The body, as Chief Inspector Wexfod is informed later, has lain buried for ten years or so, wrapped ina purple cotton sheet. the post-mortem cannot reveal the prcise cause of death. the only clue is a crack in one of the dead man's ribs.
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 is hands to identify the corpse.
And then, only 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 connectred and to track down whoever is responsible.

Journal Entry 2 by SabinaLorenz at Wien Bezirk 19 - Döbling, Wien Austria on Friday, October 7, 2011
It took me quite some time to get into the story and I never was too interested who might have killed the man and why all that has happened.
In the end of course Wexford is able to solve the mystery, but with most of the responsible people dead, it was no real victory.
The parallel story about the femal circumcision was at least interesting, however without any final answer to it - just as in real life.

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