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Written in bone this unit was created by the louisiana department of education in partnership with learnzillion. Hunter is asked to go to the island of runa, to investigate a report of an especially gruesome fire death in the western isles. An incinerated body has been found on the remote scottish island of runa, and hunter is called in to examine it. Written in bone also by simon beckett t h e c h e m i s t ry o f d e at h written in bone simon beckett d e l a c o r t e p r e s s written in bone a delacorte press book october 2007 published by arrangement with transworld publishers published by bantam dell.
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