David Hunter is back. After The chemistry of death , Cold Ash and corpse pallor appeared in February, Volume 4, decay.
The first part of the novel is a leap eight years in the past, as Hunter in the discovery of a corpse in the Dartmoor helps, which is only one of the victims of violence perpetrators Jerome Monk, who is confessed and convicted in prison. Only his victims have been found yet. The investigator team is almost entirely made up of unsympathetic people. It is this team plays eight years later in the second part (after the Death of Hunter family, the attack breaks out on him and of course the other three cases!) Play a role as Monk out of jail and violence happen again.
is striking that the decay, titled with the novel and the Hunters is the art, even play any decisive role. What was needed was for their predecessors Hunters expertise and central moment of the action, so it is here a confusing web of relations, in which he is involved involuntarily, so that he escaped the Enlightenment is basically not, since he is stuck in this network.
The resolution is not bad, though more predictable than the other three novels. Man has the feeling that Hunter puts another piece of the past to file with the case where that leads in the development of his character, you will have to see. Very engaging
is still the narrative once again a Page Turner, who wanted to be read in one day.
Who starts again with Beckett, however, should proceed chronologically, Volume 4 is not the ideal way to meet Hunter.
Simon Beckett, decay. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2011th
