Simon Beckett

Shortlisted for Theakstons Old Peculiar Crime Novel of the year, 2008.

When the bizarrely mutilated and long-dead body of a young woman is found in a ditch in Manham, it isn't just the fact that she had been a friend that disturbs Dr. David Hunter....

Recuperating from a near-fatal attack, forensic anthropologist David Hunter has returned to the renowned research facility where he first trained - the Body Farm in Tennessee....

Sie mussten tot sein. Von Tina Williams und den Bennett-Zwillingen fehlte jede Spur. Als der Außenseiter Jerome Monk bei dem Überfall...

‘At first glance it could have been anything – a stone, a knotted root – until you looked more closely.'....

It’s been a good summer for forensics expert Dr David Hunter. His relationship is going well, and he’s in demand again as a police consultant. Life is good. Then a call comes from an old associate: a body has been found, and she’d like Hunter to take a look....

Die Gezeiten spülen einen Toten auf eine schlammige Sandbank in den Backwaters, einem abgelegenen Mündungsgebiet in Essex...

The disappearance of firearms police officer Jonah Colley's young son almost destroyed him. A phone call from an old friend leads Jonah to the warehouse Slaughter Quay, and the discovery of four bodies, with a link to his son's case....

Nur Fledermäuse verirren sich noch nach St. Jude. Das Krankenhaus im Norden Londons, seit Jahren stillgelegt, soll in Kürze abgerissen werden...

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....

Als der Rechtsmediziner David Hunter die Überreste der Frau auf der schottischen Insel Runa untersucht, ist er sich sicher, dass ihr Tod war kein Unfall war...

When the bizarrely mutilated body of a young woman is found near the tiny isolated Norfolk village of Manham, it isn't just the fact that she was a friend that disturbs Dr David Hunter....

Nach dem Tod seiner Frau und der Tochter kehrt David Hunter dem Dasein als berühmtester Gerichtsmediziner Englands den Rücken...

Some moments burn in the mind for ever. The landing is dark. Light comes from a window at the far end, enough to run by. Breath comes hard....

Undurchdringlicher Nebel umgibt das heruntergekommene Hotel, im alten Gemäuer sitzt klamme Kälte. Inmitten eines Wintersturms ist Dr. David Hunter im walisischen Snowdonia gestrandet.

Composed of over 60 percent water itself, a human body isn't naturally buoyant. It will float only for as long as there is air in its lungs, before gradually sinking to the bottom as the air seeps out....

An atmospheric and utterly gripping mystery set in the shadows of the Welsh mountains, that will chill the listener to their very bones....

Sean is on the run. We don't know why and we don't know from whom, but we do know he's abandoned his battered, blood-stained car in the middle of an isolated, lonely part of rural France....

Bei seinem letzten Einsatz ist der Forensiker David Hunter nur knapp dem Tode entronnen. Von einer vollständigen Genesung weit entfernt...

When renowned forensic anthropologist David Hunter finds a bag on his doorstep filled with rather grizzly contents he's transported back to rexamine the consequences of a robbery from his past....

Two wintery detective stories starring David Hunter. In Just Another Day, David Hunter's pulled from an awkward party to investigate the suspected murder of a woman by a homeless man....