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The Chemistry of Death

By Simon Beckett

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780440335955

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Three years ago, David Hunter moved to rural Norfolk to escape his life in London, his gritty work in forensics, and a tragedy that nearly destroyed him. Working as a simple country doctor, seeing his lost wife and daughter only in his dreams, David struggles to remain uninvolved when the corpse of Continue

Three years ago, David Hunter moved to rural Norfolk to escape his life in London, his gritty work in forensics, and a tragedy that nearly destroyed him. Working as a simple country doctor, seeing his lost wife and daughter only in his dreams, David struggles to remain uninvolved when the corpse of a woman is found in the woods, a macabre sign from her killer decorating her body. In one horrifying instant, the quiet summer countryside that had been David’s refuge has turned malevolent—and suddenly there is no place to hide.

The village of Manham is tight-knit, far from the beaten path. As a newcomer, Dr. Hunter is immediately a suspect. Once an expert in analyzing human remains, he reluctantly joins the police investigation—and when another woman disappears, it soon becomes personal. Because this time she is someone David knows, someone who has managed to penetrate the icy barrier around his heart. With a killer’s bizarre and twisted methods screaming out to him, with a brooding countryside beset with suspicion, David can feel the darkness gathering around him. For as the clock ticks down on a young woman’s life, David must follow a macabre trail of clues—all the way to its final, horrifying conclusion.


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  • 'The Chemistry of Death' by Simon Beckett

    Set in rural Norfolk, it tells the story of a young widowed GP, Dr David Hunter, who has a secret past: he was once a forensic anthropologist but gave it all away following the death of his wife and young daughter in a car accident. Now living a new ... (read full critics)

    readingmatters published on Tue, 28 Sep 2010

  • Body of evidence

    The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett Bantam £10, pp363 Maggots, beetles and grave wax are bread and butter to a very distinctive kind of detective in Simon Beckett's fifth novel, a murder mystery set in an isolated community on the Norfolk Broads. ... (read full critics)

    guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010

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  • a decent pseudo-rendellian book, but way too long, and i found annoying his insistence on ending paragraphs by foreshadowing.

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  • English Books
  • Mass Market Paperback 432 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0440335957
  • ISBN-13: 9780440335955
  • Publisher: Dell
  • Pub date: Jul 31, 2007
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Others and eBook
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