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‘Chemistry of Death’ – Beckett had a hard time letting go
Simon Beckett is currently writing a new Hunter thriller. photo
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The book series about the forensic anthropologist David Hunter made Simon Beckett famous. Now the thriller has been filmed – and that wasn’t so easy for the crime star.
According to the British crime thriller star Simon Beckett (62), it was difficult to leave responsibility for the new series “Chemistry of Death” to others. “It was actually, yes,” said the author of the German Press Agency. “But there comes a point when you have to realize: I’m not writing this, I wrote the book. Television is a completely different medium and you have to approach it differently.”
Beckett rose to fame with his spooky mysteries about fictional forensic anthropologist David Hunter. “Chemistry of Death” was the first bestseller about him in 2006, five more followed, and now the thriller material has been filmed for the first time.
The series starts on Thursday (January 12) on the new streaming service Paramount+, with the world premiere taking place the day before on a train from Hamburg to Berlin. The first season includes the first two books in Beckett’s Hunter series, Chemistry of Death and Cold Ashes.
Writing – “This is my job”
“For me, there came a moment when I realized that it would be counterproductive if I was further involved,” Beckett told dpa. “So I retired and got on with writing, more books. That’s my job.”
He is currently writing a new Hunter thriller. “Some people thought the series would end after the sixth book, but that was never my plan,” he said. He only took a break after the last Hunter book “The Eternal Dead”, which came out in 2019 – and invented a new investigator during that time: Jonah Colley made his debut in the crime thriller “The Lost”, which was published in 2021 . “He’s putting his feet up for a while now. But he’s coming back,” Beckett said.
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