text: It's been over a year since I've participated in the Friday 56. When I used to do this, I'd link up with Storytime with Tonia and Friends but that blog has since disappeared. This is new for me, linking up at Freda's Voice - hope that you enjoy my Friday 56.
  Rules:
  * Grab the book nearest you. Right now.
  * Turn to page 56 or 56% on your e-reader/
  * Find the fifth sentence.
  * Post that sentence (plus one or two others if you like) along with these instructions on your blog or (if you do not have your own blog) in the comments section of this blog.
  *Post a link along with your post back to this blog and to Freda's Voice at http://fredasvoice.blogspot.com
  * Don't dig for your favorite book, the coolest, the most intellectual. Use the CLOSEST.
  About Not in the Flesh by Ruth Rendell
  A new Chief Inspector Wexford mystery from the author who Time magazine has called “the best mystery writer in the English-speaking world.”
  When the truffle-hunting dog starts to dig furiously, his master’s first reaction is delight at the size of the clump the dog has unearthed: at the going rate, this one truffle might be worth several hundred pounds. Then the dirt falls away to reveal not a precious mushroom but the bones and tendons of what is clearly a human hand.
  In Not in the Flesh, Chief Inspector Wexford tries to piece together events that took place eleven years earlier, a time when someone was secretly interred in a secluded patch of English countryside. Now Wexford and his team will need to interrogate everyone who lives nearby to see if they can turn up a match for the dead man among the eighty-five people in this part of England who have disappeared over the past decade. Then, when a second body is discovered nearby, Wexford experiences a feeling that’s become a rarity for the veteran policeman: surprise.
  As Wexford painstakingly moves to resolve these multiple mysteries, long-buried secrets are brought to daylight, and Ruth Rendell once again proves why she has been hailed as our greatest living mystery writer.
  Here's my Friday 56 (from my Kindle):
  "These two self-appointed vigilantes had somehow convinced themselves that it was their job to police that house. Or had it all been a simple by voracious curiosity?"
  About the Author, courtesy of Amazon::
  Ruth Barbara Rendell, Baroness Rendell of Babergh, CBE (born 17 February 1930), who also writes under the pseudonym Barbara Vine, is an English crime writer, author of psychological thrillers and murder mysteries. In addition to police procedurals starring her most iconic creation, Chief Inspector Wexford, Rendell writes psychological crime novels exploring such themes as romantic obsession, misperceived communication, the impact of chance and coincidence, and the humanity of the criminals involved. Among such books are A Judgement In Stone, The Face of Trespass, Live Flesh, Talking to Strange Men, The Killing Doll, Going Wrong and Adam and Eve and Pinch Me. Many credit her and close friend P. D. James for upgrading the entire genre of whodunit, shaping it more into a whydunit.
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  1 comment:
  fredamans February 22, 2013 at 10:42 PM
  Sounds intriguing.
  Thanks for coming back... been over two years since I have been passed the torch from Tonia, so it's nice to see the old stuff. I updated the graphic, thanks to a blogger friend and also updated the rules slightly. Hope to see you back, and sooner than before... LOL.
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