Purchase
Dr. David Hunter #3
Delacorte Press
May 2009
On Sale: May 19, 2009
Featuring: Dr. David Hunter
320 pages
ISBN: 0385340060
EAN: 9780385340069
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Mystery Psychological | Thriller Medical
A field of corpses, laid out in a macabre displayโฆA serial killer who confounds even the most seasoned profilersโฆA doctor whose life has been shattered by crimeโplunged into the heart of a shocking investigationโฆ In this masterful new novel by Simon Beckett, #1 internationally bestselling author of Written in Bone and The Chemistry of Death, forensic anthropologist David Hunter is thrust into his first murder investigation on U.S. soilโand his most devastating case yet.
In the heat of a Tennessee summer, Dr. Hunter has come to Knoxvilleโs legendary โBody Farmโโthe infamous field laboratory where law enforcement personnel study real corpsesโto escape London and the violence that nearly destroyed his life. Heโs also here to find out if heโs still up to the job of sorting through death in all its strange and terrible forms.โฆ Hunter will soon find his answer when heโs called to a crime scene in a remote Smoky Mountain cabinโa scene as grisly as it is bizarre.
The body is taped to a table. Everything about the crime sceneโthe wounds, the decomposition, the microscopic evidenceโquickly short-circuits the tools and methods of forensic experts. Within days, Hunter knows heโs dealing with a serial killer, someone intimately familiar with the intricacies of forensics. All around him, egos and hierarchies clashโfrom the boasts of a renowned criminal profiler to the dogged work of a young female investigatorโbut fate keeps pushing Hunter further into the heart of the manhunt. And the killer keeps coming up with surprises: booby-trapping corpses, faking times of death, swapping bodiesโfinally turning his sights on after Hunter himself.โฆ
An electrifying race against time, a fascinating journey into the world of forensic science, and a terrifying portrait of a killer in love with death itself, Whispers of the Dead is a thriller of the highest order.
| 
© 2003-2026