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A field of corpses, laid out in a macabre display�A serial killer who confounds even the most seasoned profilers�A doctor whose life has been shattered by crime�plunged into the heart of a shocking investigation� In this masterful new novel by Simon Beckett, #1 internationally bestselling author of Written in Bone and The Chemistry of Death, forensic anthropologist David Hunter is thrust into his first murder investigation on U.S. soil�and his most devastating case yet. In the heat of a Tennessee summer, Dr. Hunter has come to Knoxville�s legendary �Body Farm��the infamous field laboratory where law enforcement personnel study real corpses�to escape London and the violence that nearly destroyed his life. He�s also here to find out if he�s still up to the job of sorting through death in all its strange and terrible forms.� Hunter will soon find his answer when he�s called to a crime scene in a remote Smoky Mountain cabin�a scene as grisly as it is bizarre. The body is taped to a table. Everything about the crime scene�the wounds, the decomposition, the microscopic evidence�quickly short-circuits the tools and methods of forensic experts. Within days, Hunter knows he�s dealing with a serial killer, someone intimately familiar with the intricacies of forensics. All around him, egos and hierarchies clash�from the boasts of a renowned criminal profiler to the dogged work of a young female investigator�but fate keeps pushing Hunter further into the heart of the manhunt. And the killer keeps coming up with surprises: booby-trapping corpses, faking times of death, swapping bodies�finally turning his sights on after Hunter himself.� An electrifying race against time, a fascinating journey into the world of forensic science, and a terrifying portrait of a killer in love with death itself, Whispers of the Dead is a thriller of the highest order. From the Hardcover edition.