Death has no conscience...
When junior doctor Alex Blackstone witnesses the pursuit and killing of his father, a reclusive medical researcher, the last thing he expects is to be accused of the murder.
But his only hope of an alibi - Romina Parlton - is refusing to tell the truth as it would reveal their affair to her husband, one of Blackstone's colleagues.
With the police close to charging him, Alex is plunged further into this hopeless situation.
Things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers Romina's brutally savaged body and also witnesses her husband being knifed to death.
Fighting against the odds to prove his innocence, he returns to his father's home in a desperate search for proof.
Yet he arrives only to find it has been ransacked by the mysterious killer and narrowly escapes death himself when he finds the criminal still on the premises.
After everything that he has gone through, he welcomes the attention of student doctor Emma Taylor.
She provides him with a bed and sympathy while he desperately seeks clues to convince the police of his innocence.
Hope comes with the delivery of a mysterious package of slides that include a picture of Alex's father with three others, one of who has also been recently murdered.
Alex decides the solution to the killings lies in tracking down the person who took the picture.
A thrilling race ensues to prevent the remaining two suffering the same fate, but not before another terrible murder takes place...
Fortunately, the victim provides a vital clue to their attacker - one that helps unveil who was behind the camera...
Knife to Skin is an epic murder mystery that will prove impossible to put down.
John Llewellyn Probert is the author of Ward 19 and five short story collections including The Faculty of Terror which won the Children of the Night award, its sequel The Catacombs of Fear, Coffin Nails and Wicked Delights. His latest books are the novella The Nine Deaths of Dr Valentine and the novel The House That Death Built. He is a full time Consultant Surgeon practising in the UK, and he writes in the hours well past midnight. He is married to the horror writer Thana Niveau, and they live in a Victorian gothic house near Bristol.
Genre: Mystery
When junior doctor Alex Blackstone witnesses the pursuit and killing of his father, a reclusive medical researcher, the last thing he expects is to be accused of the murder.
But his only hope of an alibi - Romina Parlton - is refusing to tell the truth as it would reveal their affair to her husband, one of Blackstone's colleagues.
With the police close to charging him, Alex is plunged further into this hopeless situation.
Things quickly take a turn for the worse when he discovers Romina's brutally savaged body and also witnesses her husband being knifed to death.
Fighting against the odds to prove his innocence, he returns to his father's home in a desperate search for proof.
Yet he arrives only to find it has been ransacked by the mysterious killer and narrowly escapes death himself when he finds the criminal still on the premises.
After everything that he has gone through, he welcomes the attention of student doctor Emma Taylor.
She provides him with a bed and sympathy while he desperately seeks clues to convince the police of his innocence.
Hope comes with the delivery of a mysterious package of slides that include a picture of Alex's father with three others, one of who has also been recently murdered.
Alex decides the solution to the killings lies in tracking down the person who took the picture.
A thrilling race ensues to prevent the remaining two suffering the same fate, but not before another terrible murder takes place...
Fortunately, the victim provides a vital clue to their attacker - one that helps unveil who was behind the camera...
Knife to Skin is an epic murder mystery that will prove impossible to put down.
John Llewellyn Probert is the author of Ward 19 and five short story collections including The Faculty of Terror which won the Children of the Night award, its sequel The Catacombs of Fear, Coffin Nails and Wicked Delights. His latest books are the novella The Nine Deaths of Dr Valentine and the novel The House That Death Built. He is a full time Consultant Surgeon practising in the UK, and he writes in the hours well past midnight. He is married to the horror writer Thana Niveau, and they live in a Victorian gothic house near Bristol.
Genre: Mystery
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