The Calling of the Grave

Eight years ago they found a teenager's body buried on the moor, and they were certain that it was one of psychotic rapist and multiple murderer Jerome Monk's three victims. Which left two more bodies to find. But the search, ill-conceived, ended badly. For forensics expert David Hunter, life moved on. Now, though, a nightmare scenario unfurls. Monk has escaped and seems to be targeting anyone involved in that original ill-fated operation. Lured back to the moors, Hunter begins to realise that things aren't quite as they seemed. As the maniac's violent trail edges ever closer, the past is suddenly anything but dead and buried...

As bone-chillingly bleak as its subject...this doesn't disappoint FINANCIAL TIMES Deeply unnerving...a writer who clearly relishes raising our pulse rates while lowering our blood temperature -- Barry Forshaw

SIMON BECKETT is a freelance journalist and writes for national newspapers and colour supplements. The author of four international bestsellers featuring his forensic anthropologist hero, Dr. David Hunter, The Chemistry of Death, Written in Bone, Whispers of the Dead and now The Calling of the Grave. Simon lives in Sheffield.