Live Flesh

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Heartstones
Author Ruth Rendell
Country United Kingdom
Language English
Genre(s) Crime, Mystery novel
Publisher Hutchinson
Released 27 February 1986
Media Type Print (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages 272 pp (first edition, hardback)
ISBN ISBN 0-09-163680-9 (first edition, hardback)
Preceded by The New Girlfriend
Followed by Heartstones

Live Flesh, is a psychological thriller by British author Ruth Rendell, published in 1986. It won the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year, and has also been loosely adapted into a critically acclaimed Pedro Almodóvar film Carne trémula.

[edit] Plot summary

The novel's protagonist is Victor Jenner, sent to prison for shooting and crippling a police officer after an attempted rape. Ten years later, Jenner is released from prison and has to find himself a new life, only to discover that it is all too easy to slip back into the old one.