The Chemistry of Death is a novel by the British crime fiction writer Simon Beckett, first published in 2006.

The Chemistry of Death was nominated for the Duncan Lawrie Dagger by the Crime Writer's Association in 2006.

[2] The book was adapted into a six-part television series The Chemistry of Death, streaming on Paramount+ in the UK on 19 January 2023.

[3] Forensics expert David Hunter is recovering from a shattering tragedy three years earlier.

While he is working in an isolated Norfolk village as a doctor, a woman's mutilated corpse is discovered.