Simon Beckett

When two young boys, Neil and Sam, follow a trail of maggots they discover the body of Sally Palmer. Dr David Hunter is called in to assist the police investigation and finds that he has to revisit his troubled past.

Forensic anthropologist Dr David Hunter should be at home in London with the woman he loves. Instead, as a favour to a beleaguered police officer, he undertakes a rough sea crossing to the remote Hebridean island of Runa, where a grisly discovery awaits him.