The Butcher Legacy

The chilling third instalment of Alaina Urquhart's bestselling Dr. Wren Muller serial killer thriller series.Two months after the life-changing events on the trail of a serial killer known as the 'Bayou Butcher', forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller is back in the place she knows best: the New Orleans morgue.She buries herself in routine, reuniting with her closest ally, Detective John Leroux, and tries to convince herself that normality can be rebuilt. But shadows begin to shift again as young girls vanish in the cities where Jeremy Rose, the unmasked Bayou Butcher, once ran rampant.When bodies are discovered with all the hallmarks of Bayou Butcher killings, Wren and Leroux must mobilise.Hundreds of miles away in Massachusetts, Philip Trudeau stands behind a pulpit. He is the revered pastor of a close-knit congregation, but beneath his calm composure lies something sinister - he has history with Jeremy Rose, and a hunger that did not fade when the Bayou Butcher was jailed . . .Is Jeremy pulling the most gruesome of strings from behind bars? Will Wren ever be free of the Bayou Butcher's legacy . . . or will it be her downfall?Praise for the Dr. Wren Muller series:



'CAPTIVATING. The reader might want to shut their eyes, but the joust between the killer and the pathologist makes that impossible' - DAILY MAIL'Amazing twists. Unputdownable' - Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife'Alaina Urquhart has set a new benchmark for the serial killer novel' - Margot Douaihy, author of Scorched Grace