Knochenkälte

The dead did not scare me. It was the living who gave me nightmares. An impenetrable fog surrounds the rundown hotel, and a damp chill lingers in the old walls. Amid a winter storm, Dr. David Hunter is stranded in Snowdonia, Wales. The Forest Hotel is run by a couple who are anything but friendly, yet the forensic anthropologist has no choice but to spend the night there. He is the only guest. The unblinking stares of the stuffed animals in the hallways make the stay as uncomfortable as the evident tensions between the couple. As it turns out, they are not the only ones in the village with something to hide. The next morning, Hunter makes a gruesome discovery in the nearby woods. In his attempt to alert the police, he realizes that the storm has cut the village off from the outside world. Part 7 of the bestselling series takes forensic anthropologist Dr. David Hunter into the fog-shrouded Welsh mountains. It is told with breathtaking atmosphere and twists, as only Simon Beckett can.