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When DI Terry Connor turns up on David Hunter's doorstep, it's an unwelcome reminder of the past in more ways than one. The two used to be friends before Connor's behaviour caused a bitter rift. And the news the policeman brings is even less welcome: the psychotic rapist and murderer Jerome Monk has escaped from high security prison.
Monk's is a name all too familiar to Hunter. Eight years before he'd part of an ill-fated Body Recovery team assembled to try and find the graves of Monk's teenage victims on the bleak expanse of Dartmoor. Only one of the missing girls' bodies was ever found, and Monk's own controversial involvement in the search led to more failure and a violent denouement. And now Monk is on the loose - and seems to be targeting anyone involved with the original search.
Then Hunter receives a mysterious appeal for help from Sophie Keller, a young woman who also worked on the operation, he suddenly finds that the past is far from dead and buried. Neither the events unfolding now, nor those from all those years ago, are quite as they seem. And as the maniac's bloody trail edges ever closer, Hunter is forced to question who he can really trust. Especially when his own life depends on it...
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| ISBN 13: | 9780553820652 |
| ISBN 10: | 0553820656 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Pages: | 464 |
| Dimensions: | 198 x 129 mm |
| Released: | 02/04/2012 |
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Simon Beckett (born 1960 in Sheffield) is a British journalist and author.
After earning a Master of Arts degree in English, Beckett taught in Spain and played in several bands before becoming a freelance journalist. He has written for The Times, The Independent on Sunday, The Daily Telegraph, The Observer, amongst others. He has previously written several well-received novels and published his first novel in the David Hunter series, The Chemistry of Death in 2006; a forensic crime novel. Centred on a forensic anthropologist, Dr David Hunter, as the protagonist, The Chemistry of Death was shortlisted for the 2006 Gold Dagger award. A sequel novel featuring David Hunter, Written in Bone was released in August 2007 and a further novel, Whispers of the Dead in January 2009. He has previous written several other novels (including Fine Lines in 1994), but these all go conspicuously unmentioned in interviews and on his website.
The books and protagonist were inspired by a visit and series of articles made by Beckett to "The Body Farm" in Tennessee (Otherwise known as the Forensic Anthropology Centre, U. Tennessee, founded by the pioneer of modern forensic anthropology, Dr Bill Bass). Having watched - and participated - in "live" exercises involving manufactured crime scenes containing real decaying corpses, and having witnessed the fascinating and arcane sciences employed to ascertain how, when and where death occurred, Beckett was inspired to create a central character who is vulnerable, charming and engaging, while authoritative and knowledgeable regarding "The Chemistry of Death".
He is married and currently lives in Sheffield.
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