Dead People
A Mystery
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Award-winning writer Ewart Hutton's Dead People provides a thrilling story and a most welcome revisit of the Welsh countryside and the fascinating character of Detective Sergeant Glyn Capaldi.
Capaldi, in disgrace and exiled from Cardiff to the deep heart of rural Wales, is called to the discovery of a human skeleton at a remote site in the hills during excavation work for a new wind farm. The body, missing its head and hands, is unidentifiable. When other bodies are uncovered, Capaldi's superiors assume that it is either the work of a hit squad or a serial killer, and that the site is just a dumping ground.
Capaldi is not convinced. To him, the remoteness of the location points to local knowledge. However, an apparent suicide in the valley, along with incriminating evidence, appears to back up his superiors' theory. Believing that they have found the killer, they move the investigation to the city to try and discover the identity of the victims. Capaldi is left in place to tidy up the loose ends. He sets about trying to discover a motive among the varied characters that inhabit the area. To achieve this he also has to try and unravel the mystery of who these dead people were and why they were buried in this particular location all those years ago.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Hutton's absorbing second mystery featuring Det. Sgt. Glyn Capaldi (after 2013's Good People) finds the disgraced detective stationed so deep in the wilds of Wales that he's literally investigating crimes against sheep. Relief, of a sort, comes with the discovery of skeletal human remains at a wind farm construction site. Both the head and hands are missing, and the remains appear to have been in the ground several years. Glyn discovers a corpse of a much more recent vintage soon after, followed by a second, then a third skeleton. The skeletons can't be readily identified, but DNA analysis confirms that the intact body belongs to Evie Salmon, a young woman who disappeared two years earlier. While his superiors are quick to lay the blame for all the murders on apparent suicide Bruno Gilbert, Glyn has his doubts. Under the guise of tracing "the Evie connection," Glyn sets out to piece together the scant clues pointing to the actual killer. Hutton is definitely a writer to watch.
