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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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“I took the skull from its evidence bag and gently set
it on the stainless steel table. ‘Tell me who you
are. . . .’ ” 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 unravels—along with the chilling
message that a killer has…
Dr. David Hunter should
be in London with the woman he loves and a past he can’t
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 recognition—all within the
confines of an otherwise undamaged, unoccupied cottage.
Local police want to rule the death accidental. But
Hunter’s examination of the victim’s 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. Hunter’s job is to coax the dead into telling their
stories—but now that he’s 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 community—from the deceptions of a wealthy
couple to the bitterness of an ex-cop and the secrets of a
lonely single mother—as a tale of rage and perversion
comes full circle…then explodes in a series of violent
acts and shocking twists.
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