Dead People
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Publisher Description
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
‘More stings in the tail than a bag of scorpions’ Val McDermid
About the author
Ewart Hutton was born and raised in and around Glasgow before slipping south to university in Manchester, and then on to diverse occupations in London. He has won numerous awards and prizes for his radio plays which have been produced for BBC Radio 4, RTE, and Radio Clyde. His first Glyn Capaldi mystery, GOOD PEOPLE, was shortlisted for the CWA’s Debut Dagger award in 2012. DEAD PEOPLE is Hutton’s second Capaldi mystery. He lives in southern France with his wife Annie.
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.
