Written In Bone
Simon Beckett
Suspence
328 pages
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 unravelsalong with the
chilling message that a killer has
Dr. David Hunter should be in London with the woman he
loves and a past he cant 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 recognitionall within the
confines of an otherwise undamaged, unoccupied
cottage. Local police want to rule the death
accidental. But Hunters examination of the victims
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.
Hunters job is to coax the dead into telling their
storiesbut now that hes 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 communityfrom the
deceptions of a wealthy couple to the bitterness of an
ex-cop and the secrets of a lonely single motheras a
tale of rage and perversion comes full circle
then
explodes in a series of violent acts andshocking
twists.
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