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The Restless Dead

✍ Scribed by Beckett, Simon

Book ID
109956821
Publisher
Transworld
Tongue
English
Weight
267 KB
Series
David Hunter 5
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781409043034

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✦ Synopsis

'Composed of over sixty per cent 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. If the water is very cold or deep, it will remain there, undergoing a slow, dark dissolution that can take years. But if the water is warm enough for bacteria to feed and multiply, then it will continue to decompose. Gases will build up in the intestines, increasing the body's buoyancy until it floats again.
And the dead will literally rise . . . '

It was on a Friday evening that forensics consultant Dr David Hunter took the call: a Detective Inspector Lundy from the Essex force. Just up the coast from Mersea Island, near a place called Backwaters, a badly decomposed body has been found and the local police would welcome Hunter's help with the recovery and identification . . .

Because they would like it to be that of Leo Villiers, the 31...

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