The Chemistry of Death by Simon Beckett

What would you do…

…if your wife and daughter had been killed in a car accident and you were already burnt out from spending too much time with corpses in Iraq, Bosnia and the Congo? David Hunter decided to leave everything behind and bury himself as a GP in Manham, a sleepy little Norfolk village,

That worked for three years – until the first mutilated body was found there. He had to treat the boys who found the trail that led to the body. Even boys can be horrified by things they find when they are playing. And a man who has a nose for these things can find himself drawn into the puzzle.