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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