Extract from Declan's Lost Race
An unidentified man is found dead in Spain. The forensic evidence presents a problem: two distinct male DNA profiles where every outward fact insists there was only one man.
Bob Mazzei · Fiction
Stories for readers who prefer a mystery that thinks back.
Crime, memory, identity, evidence and the uncomfortable space between what happened and what can be proved.
One dead man.Two male DNA profiles.
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Declan's Lost Race
A dead man is found on the Costa del Sol. Most of the body produces one male DNA profile. A mouth swab produces another.
01The second profile matches evidence from a London murder committed thirty-two years earlier.
02An old university photograph points towards Declan.
03The investigation moves between London and southern Spain.
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Bob Mazzei
Bob Mazzei writes fiction in which mystery meets questions of memory, identity, evidence and certainty. His work moves between Britain and southern Europe and is shaped by an interest in how people reason, what they believe and what the evidence actually permits them to know.