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The new novel of the flagship of the new British thriller, Simon Beckett, is a continuation of the exciting, translated into 28 languages bestselling series about the forensic anthropologist Dr. David Hunter, whose disturbing, not at all pleasant cases domestic readers already had the opportunity to get to know in the extremely dynamic predecessor, the novel The Chemistry of Death. Doctor David Hunter was supposed to spend the weekend at home, with his beloved wife. Instead, he decides to do a favor to a persistent police inspector and sail across rough seas to the remote Scottish island of Rune, where a terrible discovery awaits him. Hunter has encountered death in countless forms, but what he discovers shocks even him – an almost completely burned corpse, of which only the feet and one hand remained, lies in a room that the flames did not even lick. The local police hastily declare the case an accident, but Hunter's instincts say it is not. Convinced that there is a murderer on the island, he soon discovers that Runa is far from the peaceful community it seems to be and that the burnt corpse is just one of the island's dark secrets. The island is then hit by the full force of the Atlantic storm, cutting off power lines and all contact with the mainland. As the storm rages, the murders really begin to pile up…