Scritto nelle ossa
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The no. 1 international bestselling sequel to The Chemistry of Death.
On his way back from an ongoing investigation into a serial killer in Scotland, forensic anthropologist David Hunter is asked to examine a fire-death on the remote Hebridean island of Runa. Told only that there is something ‘strange’ about it, Hunter is intrigued enough to accept – despite the worsening winter weather conditions, and the strain it will put on his already troubled relationship with his girlfriend, Jenny.
After a rough sea journey, he and the two police officers who accompany him are met by Brody, a retired DI who now lives on the island, and who discovered the body. Warned that it will be unlike anything he’s seen before, Hunter is still unprepared for what confronts him at the abandoned old crofter’s cottage – human remains that have been burnt to the bone, except for both feet and a single hand that have somehow survived unscathed. Even more inexplicably, nothing else in the cottage has been damaged by the fire.
It appears to be a textbook case of the phenomenon known as spontaneous human combustion. But Hunter is certain there is a more rational explanation for what has happened. And although the police seem ready to dismiss this as a bizarre accidental death, he finds himself drawn more towards Brody’s gut feeling: whatever caused this, it was no accident.
But even as Hunter comes face to face with the knowledge that there is a murderer on the island, the full force of an Atlantic storm descends. Cut off from the mainland, he begins to realise that the burned corpse is only one of Runa's secrets. And as the storm rages, the killing begins in earnest…
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Secondo appuntamento con il Dottor Hunter, quanto mai gradito in un genere, il thriller, dove molto è stato scritto e ormai ci si riesce raramente a “stupirsi”.
Con questo secondo libro di Beckett invece riusciamo ad avere ancora quei colpi di scena caratteristici più di un giallo che di un thriller, ma che abbinati sapientemente con una buona storia, una bellissima ambientazione (un isola delle Ebridi esterne in Gran Bretagana) e degli ottimi personaggi, il tutto miscelato con delle scene da thriller di ottima efficacia, rendono davvero meravigliosa la lettura di questo libro.
Ricordo per chi si fosse perso il primo (La chimica della morte, ndr) che il protagonista principale è il dottor David Hunter, antropologo forense, disciplina che analizza le prove sui cadaveri da omicidio e tenta di dare un volto agli assassini tramite le prove raccolte dagli stessi.
Sorprendono e divertono molto i vari colpi di scena finali, che lasciano un ottimo retrogusto al lettore, invogliando sicuramente l'acquisto del terzo della serie.
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7 primary booksDavid Hunter is a 7-book series with 7 primary works first released in 2006 with contributions by Simon Beckett, Andrea Silvestri, and 2 others.
