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THE CHEMISTRY OF DEATH
By: Simon Beckett
Dell
August 2007
On Sale: July 31, 2007
Featuring: David Hunter
416 pages
ISBN: 0440335957
EAN: 9780440335955
Mass Market Paperback (reprint)
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Thriller Psychological | Mystery Amateur Sleuth
Three years ago, David Hunter moved to rural Norfolk to escape his life in London, his gritty work in forensics, and a tragedy that nearly destroyed him. Working as a simple country doctor, seeing his lost wife and daughter only in his dreams, David struggles to remain uninvolved when the corpse of a woman is found in the woods, a macabre sign from her killer decorating her body. In one horrifying instant, the quiet summer countryside that had been Davidβs refuge has turned malevolentβand suddenly there is no place to hide.
The village of Manham is tight-knit, far from the beaten path. As a newcomer, Dr. Hunter is immediately a suspect. Once an expert in analyzing human remains, he reluctantly joins the police investigationβand when another woman disappears, it soon becomes personal. Because this time she is someone David knows, someone who has managed to penetrate the icy barrier around his heart. With a killerβs bizarre and twisted methods screaming out to him, with a brooding countryside beset with suspicion, David can feel the darkness gathering around him. For as the clock ticks down on a young womanβs life, David must follow a macabre trail of cluesβall the way to its final, horrifying conclusion.
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