A streak of black luck hits Dr. David Hunter, an outstanding expert in forensic science—his career is hanging by a thread, and his personal life is coming apart. So a call from the Essex police reaches him at just the right moment…
Not much is left of the body found among the bogs and quagmires of Beckwater—only a true genius in forensics can answer three questions:
Who was this unfortunate man?
How did he die?
And does it have any connection to two mysterious disappearances of people that were never solved?
But soon after Dr. Hunter arrives, more and more remains start being found in the marshes—and it seems there will be no end to it. People whisper; terrible rumors spread.
David understands one thing well: it is not the dead you should be afraid of, but the one who buried them in the bogs…