A Sleeping Life
Ruth Rendell Audio Book

The body found under the hedge was that of a middle-aged woman. The grey eyes were wide and staring, and in them Detective Chief Inspector Wexford thought he saw a sardonic gleam. But that must have been his imagination, and imagination was all he had to go on.

The woman was a stranger. There was nothing to give him her address, her occupation – or even her identity. Let alone any clues that might lead to her killer.