by Simon Beckett, A. Silvestri
Phew. Took me what seems like forever to read this one. And it was a pretty good book, the main plot was pretty solid and the ending was a real surprise.. What really held me back was the whole back story. Everyone had a tragic past and it had to be rehashed every other page and jeebus, I just...
I had already read Whispers of the Dead (David Hunter #3). Yeah, something about reading order? I know. After reading it, I decided I wanted to read more, and this seemed a very logical start... The Chemistry of Death is the first novel in the David Hunter series by Simon Beckett. It may not come ...
Listened to this on a long trip. Gruesome and engaging car book.
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 ...
The first in Beckett’s David Hunter series, this is a fast-paced thriller set in rural Norfolk. It tells the story of Dr David Hunter, who has left his career as a forensic anthropologist in London following a personal tragedy and works as a general practitioner in a small village. When the mutila...
Rating clarification: 3.5 starsWarning animal lovers this book involves scenes with animal torture in it. There's also a lot of dead animals used in the plot. While I'm aware that humans are also tortured and killed in this book and that realistically psychopaths do indeed torture and kill animals...
Great central character. But I couldn’t bear all the heavy-handed foreshadowing. Every chapter has at least one instance along the lines of: "If only we'd known then what we would come to know later." It needed a decent editor with a heavy red pen. Also, the final killer was so bizarre, no clues at ...
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