The Chemistry of Death: The skin-crawlingly frightening David Hunter thriller (David Hunter, #1)

by Simon Beckett

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'A classy debut' The Times
'Best thriller I've read all year' Tess Gerritsen

Dr David Hunter hoped he might at last have put the past behind him. But then they found what was left of Sally Palmer . . .


It isn't just that she was a friend that disturbs him. Once he'd been a high-profile forensic anthropologist and all too familiar with the many faces of death, before tragedy made him abandon this previous life.

Now the police want his help.

But to become involved will stir up memories he's long tried to forget. Then a second woman disappears, plunging the close-knit community into a maelstrom of fear and paranoia.

And no one, not even Hunter, is exempt from suspicion.

Gruesome and gripping, this startling new British crime thriller has an unnerving and original twist.

  • ISBN10 0553817493
  • ISBN13 9780553817492
  • Publish Date 9 April 2007 (first published 1 January 2006)
  • Publish Status Out of Print
  • Out of Print 10 August 2021
  • Publish Country GB
  • Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Imprint Bantam Books (Transworld Publishers a division of the Random House Group)
  • Format Paperback (A-Format (178x111 mm))
  • Pages 448
  • Language English