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EAN: 9780553817492
Format: Paperback
Published: 9 Apr 2007
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Synopsis
Finding refuge in a quiet rural backwater, Dr David Hunter hoped he might at last have put the past behind him. But then they found what was left of Sally Palmer…
It isn’t just that she was a friend that disturbs him. Once he’d been a high-profile forensic anthropologist and all too familiar with the many faces of death, before tragedy made him abandon this previous life. Now the police want his help. But to become involved will stir up memories he’s long tried to forget. Then a second woman disappears, plunging the close-knit community into a maelstrom of fear and paranoia. And no one, not even Hunter, is exempt from suspicion.
Gruesome and gripping, this startling new British crime thriller has an unnerving and original twist.
What the critics say
The best thriller I’ve read all year...fast-paced, fascinating and heart-stoppingly exciting
- TESS GERRITSEN
Spine-tinglingly frightening...it hits the bull's eye from the word go
- INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY
Fresh and original...perfectly captures the claustrophobic horror of a rural community in crisis...absolutely compelling - and deliciously scary
- MO HAYDER
Excellent...plotted and written with panache, with high marks for characterisation and shock value...an absorbing, scary tale
- Marcel Berlins, THE TIMES
Truly deserves the description “a real page-turner”
- ROBERT GODDARD
Editor's Comments
American bestsellers Kathy Reichs and Patricia Cornwell have had the forensic crime thriller arena to themselves for a while, but now comes a serious challenger in the guise of British novelist Simon Beckett. Introducing forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter,
The Chemistry of Death is a shattering novel of murder and suspicion set in rural England with a plot that shocks as it twists. Not for the faint-hearted!