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Delacorte Press
October 2007
On Sale: September 25, 2007
Featuring: Dr. David Hunter
336 pages
ISBN: 0385340052
EAN: 9780385340052
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βI took the skull from its evidence bag and gently set it on the stainless steel table. βTell me who you are. . . .β β With this silent plea, forensic expert Dr. David Hunter ignites a harrowing murder investigation on a windswept Scottish island, and a tale of menace, sexuality, and revenge unravelsβalong with the chilling message that a killer hasβ¦
Dr. David Hunter should be in London with the woman he loves and a past he canβt quite shake off. Instead, as a favor to a beleaguered cop, Hunter travels to a remote island in the Outer Hebrides to inspect a baffling set of remains. A forensic anthropologist, he has seen bodies destroyed by all forms of violence, but even he is surprised at what he finds: human remains burned beyond recognitionβall within the confines of an otherwise undamaged, unoccupied cottage. Local police want to rule the death accidental. But Hunterβs examination of the victimβs charred skull tells him that this woman, no doubt a stranger to the close-knit island of Runa, was murdered by someone nearby.
Within days, two more people are dead by fire. Hunterβs job is to coax the dead into telling their storiesβbut now that heβs beginning to hear them, he is staggered by the truth. Working with only the barest of clues, he peels back the layers of mysteries past and present, exposing the tangle of secrets at the heart of this strange communityβfrom the deceptions of a wealthy couple to the bitterness of an ex-cop and the secrets of a lonely single motherβas a tale of rage and perversion comes full circleβ¦then explodes in a series of violent acts and shocking twists.
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