Publisher's Synopsis
Top forensics expert Dr David Hunter is facing an uncertain future - his career hangs in the balance and his personal life has taken a turn for the worse. So when he gets a call from the Essex police, it comes at the perfect time. A badly decomposed body has been found in the mudflats and salt marshes of the Backwaters. Under pressure to close the case, they would like it to be the son of a prominent local family who went missing weeks ago. But Hunter has doubts about the identity: the hands and feet are missing, the face no longer recognisable. Then more remains are discovered - and as these desolate wetlands begin to give up their grisly secrets, Hunter is reminded that it's not the dead we need to fear...
