01618ojm 2200241z- 450 991014891840332120230912161814.00-00-715946-3(CKB)3710000000923567(BIP)014060307(EXLCZ)99371000000092356720231107c2010uuuu -u- -engSleeping Life, AHarperCollins UKThe body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman, biggish and gaunt. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam, a glare, even in death, of scorn. But that must have been his imagination, and imagination was almost all he had to go onThe body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman, biggish and gaunt. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam, a glare, even in death, of scorn. But that must have been his imagination, and imagination was almost all he had to go on.The woman was a stranger. Her handbag held little more than three keys on a ring and forty-two pounds in a new wallet. There was nothing to give him her address, her occupation or even her identity - let alone any clues that might lead to her killer. The woman was dead, but, as Wexford knew only too well, death, by murder is, in a way, not an end but a beginning...823.9/14Rendell Ruth1930-2015166024Baker GeorgeothAUDIO9910148918403321Sleeping Life, A3648236UNINA