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Forensics expert Dr David Hunter returns in Simon Beckett´s menacing new Sunday Times bestselling thriller.

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´As bone-chillingly bleak as its subject . . . this doesn´t disappoint´ Financial Times

A serial killer is on the loose and David Hunter suddenly finds that the past is far from dead and buried.

The escape of a psychotic rapist and multiple murderer brings DI Terry Connor to David Hunter´s doorstep, years after their bitter rift.

This unwelcome reminder of the past forces Hunter to confront the situation at hand: eight years earlier Hunter and an ill-fated Body Recovery tea, has tried to find the graves of Monk´s teenage victims on the bleak expanse of Dartmoor.

Only one of the missing girls´ bodies was ever found.

Suddenly Hunter receives an appeal from Sophie Keller, a young woman who also worked on the operation, and nothing is quite as it seems. Hunter is forced to question who he can really trust.

Especially when his own life depends on it.

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"As bone-chillingly bleak as its subject... this doesn´t disappoint" FINANCIAL TIMES

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Simon Beckett is the No.1 international bestselling author of the David Hunter series: The Chemistry of
Death, Written in Bone, Whispers of the Dead, The Calling of the Grave, The Restless Dead and The Scent of Death. His books have been translated into 29 languages, appeared in the Sunday Times top 10 bestseller lists and sold over 10 million copies worldwide. A former freelance journalist, he has written for The Times, Daily Telegraph, Independent on Sunday and Observer. The inspiration for the first David Hunter novel came after a visit to the world-renowned Body Farm in Tennessee introduced him to the work of forensic anthropologists.
Joint-winner (with Arne Dahl) of Europe´s largest crime fiction prize - the Ripper Award 2018/19 - he has also won the Raymond Chandler Society´s Marlowe Award and been short-listed for the CWA Gold Dagger, CWA Dagger in the Library and Theakston´s Crime Novel of the Year awards. He is
also the author of several stand-alone novels including Stone Bruises and Where There´s Smoke. Simon Beckett lives in Sheffield.

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