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2000s: A badly decomposed body has been found in the mudflats and salt marshes of the Backwaters.
The Restless Dead
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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 Essex police, it comes at the perfect time.
A badly decomposed body has been found in the mudflats and salt marshes of the Backwaters. Could it be linked to two unsolved missing-person cases?
But 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 .
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Travel BookTrail style to the Essex Marshlands
This is a crime where the crime scenes and locations are as much the atmosphere and character of the novel than anything else. The landscape is very unique and almost a place where the weather, plants, wildlife are very particular to that region and as a result, bring up its own challenges.
The Essex coastal marshes weren’t too far from London; flat, low-lying towns and countryside that fought a perpetual, and often losing, battle with the sea.
Dr David Hunter is called to this part of the south -east coast that he’s not familiar with. He looks up the place before he heads out to the Saltmere estuary online
The ‘rat’s nest’ of creeks and saltmarshes the DI had mentioned was an area called the Backwaters, a tidy labyrinth of waterways and ditches that bordered one of the estuary’s flanks. On satellite photographs it resembled capillaries feeding into an artery, most of it only accessible by boat. And not even then at low tide, when it drained to become a barren plain of mudflats
The refineries of Canvey Island were silhouetted against the sky to the rest of the crime scene
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Destination : Essex Author/Guide: Simon Beckett Departure Time: 2000s
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