Dead People

Name: Dead People
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Author: Ewart Hutton
ISBN: 9780007559008

Author: Ewart Hutton

Narrator: Iestyn Arwel

Unabridged: 8 hr 51 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 03/27/2014

Categories: Fiction, Mystery & Detective, Hard-boiled, Suspense & Thriller, Crime, Police Procedural

Synopsis

DS Glyn Capaldi, half Welsh, half Italian, all maverick, returns in the CWA shortlisted series blowing fresh life into crime fiction DS Glyn Capaldi, exiled to the big empty middle of Wales to atone for past sins in Cardiff, is called in to investigate a human skeleton that has been uncovered during the excavations for a wind farm in a remote valley. The body is missing its head and its hands. Identity erasure or a ritual killing? Glyn’s assertion that there must be a local connection is overruled by his superiors, They believe that the body has been transported and dumped, a theory that gains support when additional bodies start to pile up. But Capaldi is unconvinced, and sets out to prove that there is someone within the local community capable of achieving the levels of cold and manipulative brutality that have been demonstrated.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Karen on February 24, 2025

This was a difficult book to find its focus. It starts with Detective Sargeant Glyn Capaldi being assigned to rural Wales investigating throw-away cases of missing items. Until he is called to a construction site where a body is discovered. And, then another. Could a serial killer be in the area? An......more

Goodreads review by J.L. on February 14, 2024

Decent murder mystery, a bit messy at times but I liked the voice of the main character. Every character seemed individual and there were quite a few twists of events I wasn’t expecting.......more

Goodreads review by Bryngel on September 26, 2024

DS Glyn Capaldi is a nice guy. He is of course misunderstood or is it (rigid?) and I like him well enough to ignore the flaws in this, the second book in the series. He is not convinced that the approach they follow is the right one, and goes sniffing around in the village. It's a clever story and D......more

Goodreads review by Melanie on September 06, 2021

never heard of this author before but saw it in a charity shop and thought it sounded good. glad I got it was great storyline with good twists. Read it in a day. Will definately be getting the other 2 books in this set.......more

Goodreads review by Geraldine on December 30, 2017

I liked that this story took place in Wales. Otherwise, I didn't find anything special about the book.......more

Quotes

‘More stings in the tail than a bag of scorpions’ Val McDermid