THE BRAND-NEW BOOK IN THIS GRIPPING BRITISH CRIME THRILLER SERIES. 1000s OF 5* REVIEWS.

A human skull. A message carved into bone. A killer intent on bringing a gruesome secret to light.

A woman’s skull is discovered mounted on a spear in a quiet garden just outside Leeds. Etched into the bone is a cryptic five-by-five grid of Latin words.

Detective Inspector Stewart Gardener has never faced a case like this before. The skull is fresh, but it’s almost impossible to identify the victim. The murderer has meticulously stripped away all the hair and skin — and there’s no sign of the rest of the body . . .

As Gardner and his team investigate, the DI is unsettled by connections to a past case. But worse is to come.

More disembodied skulls. Each carefully arranged for Gardener and his team to discover. And every murder links back to one of his previous cases.

Soon, Gardener is forced to wonder if he’s not just hunting a deranged serial killer, who’s desperate for his attention — but if the next skull the team find will be his.

Someone is determined to make sure the past is remembered — whatever it takes.

A gripping British crime thriller for fans of Helen H. Durrant, Matt Brolly, Joy Ellis, Stuart MacBride and Angela Marsons.

MEET THE DETECTIVE:
Detective Inspector Stewart Gardener is no stranger to horror. His wife’s murder still scars him. But the cases that he investigates shake even this hardened detective. Grotesque, inexplicable circumstances — a man reduced to a skin-sack, a killer who vanishes into fog, a message etched into flesh. Nothing is as it seems — and no one is safe. With his loyal partner DS Sean Reilly, Gardener is determined to seek the truth, no matter how dark or personal. Even if it threatens his own survival.

THE LOCATION:
Set on the bleak edges of Leeds, the story unfolds across quiet Yorkshire villages, isolated homes, and exposed stretches of moorland where privacy is easy — and intrusion goes unnoticed. Stone houses hide behind high walls, gardens back onto dense woodland, and narrow country lanes vanish into open fields. When storms sweep in from the moors, darkness falls fast, cutting these places off from help and leaving secrets with nowhere left to hide.

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