i took the skull from its evidence bag and gently set it on the stainless steel table tell me who you areforensic anthropologist dr david hunter should be at home in london with the woman he loves instead as a favour to a beleaguered colleague hes on the remote hebridean island of runa to inspect a grisly discoveryhunter has witnessed death in many guises but even he is shocked by what he finds a body almost totally incinerated but for the feet and a single hand could it be a textbook case of spontaneous human combustion the local police are certain its an accidental death but hunter is not convinced examining the scorched remains he finds the evidence he feared its clear to him that this was no accident this was murderbut as the small isolated community considers the enormity of hunters findings a catastrophic storm hits the island the power goes down communication with the mainland ceases and then the killing begins in earnestexploding in a series of violent acts and shocking twists this is the compelling new crime thriller from a brilliant british storyteller