Declan's Lost Race

ONE BODY. TWO MALE DNA PROFILES. A MURDER BURIED FOR THIRTY-TWO YEARS.

An unidentified man is found murdered on the Costa del Sol. His documents are gone, his face has been destroyed, and nothing appears capable of giving him back his name.

Then the forensic results arrive.

Most of the body carries one male DNA profile. Samples from the mouth carry another — apparently belonging to a close relative. Even more disturbing, the second profile matches biological evidence preserved from the unsolved 1994 murder of a London accountant.

In London, Detective Inspector Rexius sees a second man and an obvious suspect. Sergeant Flick sees questions the evidence has not yet answered. Colonel Gómez sees the danger of allowing an explanation to arrive before the facts.

Then an old university photograph draws Declan into the investigation. He recognises the unidentified man’s face — but cannot remember his name.

As the inquiry moves between London and southern Spain, a forgotten meeting, vanished financial records and deaths once considered unrelated begin to converge. For Declan, uncovering the dead man’s identity will do more than reopen the past. It will disturb everything he believes about memory, family and the life he thought belonged to him.

Declan’s Lost Race is an intelligent forensic crime thriller combining an extraordinary scientific mystery, dark humour and a deeply human story of identity, loss and the limits of justice.