In may 2015, the chemistry of death was ranked 11 of the 40 top bestselling books of the decade by spiegel, a major german news publication. Prior to the david hunter series, beckett has written four other novels, and while in working progress of his fifth installment for the series, beckett decided for the work to be a standalone thriller. The chemistry of death i brought this book in the 3 for 2 offer having never read any of simon becketts previous works. The chemistry of death by simon beckett overdrive rakuten. Read the chemistry of death the skincrawlingly frightening david hunter thriller by simon beckett available from rakuten kobo. The main characters of this thriller, mystery story are david hunter, sally palmer.
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