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|title=Not in the Flesh

|author=Ruth Rendell

|buy=Yes

|borrow=Yes

|pages=372

|publisher=Hutchinson

|date=August 2007

|isbn=978-0091920593

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A man and his dog were out hunting for truffles when the dog unearthed a human hand. The body, wrapped in a purple cotton sheet, had been there for more than a decade and Chief Inspector Wexford wasn't surprised that the post mortem couldn't tell him the cause of death. All he had to go on was a crack in one of the dead man's ribs. Identification is a major problem. A remarkable number of people - something like 500 a day nationwide - simply disappear. As if this isn't enough he's then faced with another body, found only a few yards away in the cellar of a disused cottage. With two unidentified bodies on their hands Wexford and Inspector Mike Burden are struggling.

If you enjoy the police procedural genre then you might like to try something from its king. We can recommend Ian Rankin's [[The Naming of the Dead]] - and indeed any of his [[Rebus]] novels.

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