White Bones

Description

One wet, windswept November morning, a field on a desolate farm gives up the dismembered bones of eleven women... Their skeletons bear the marks of a meticulous butcher. The bodies date back to 1915. All were likely skinned alive. But then a young woman goes missing, and her remains, the bones carefully stripped and arranged in an arcane patterns, are discovered on the same farm. With the crimes of the past echoing in the present, D.S. Katie Maguire must solve a decades-old murder steeped in ancient legend... before this terrifying killer strikes again.

Graham Masterton was a bestselling horror writer who has now turned his talent to crimewriting. He lived in Cork for five years, an experience that inspired the Katie Maguire series.

'White Bones and Katie Maguire deserve to be recognized as standing toe-to-toe with the best books and detectives in the genre today' Examiner. 'One of the few true masters' James Herbert. 'A natural storyteller with a unique gift for turning the mundane into the terrifyingly real' New York Journal of Books. 'One of the most original and frightening storytellers of our time' Peter James.