LEADER 01618ojm 2200241z- 450 001 9910148918403321 005 20230912161814.0 010 $a0-00-715946-3 035 $a(CKB)3710000000923567 035 $a(BIP)014060307 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000923567 100 $a20231107c2010uuuu -u- - 101 0 $aeng 200 10$aSleeping Life, A 210 $cHarperCollins UK 330 8 $aThe 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... 676 $a823.9/14 700 $aRendell$b Ruth$f1930-2015$0166024 702 $aBaker$b George$4oth 906 $aAUDIO 912 $a9910148918403321 996 $aSleeping Life, A$93648236 997 $aUNINA