A Place of Blood and Bone

As a brilliant young biochemist, Martin Blackthorn had a bright future. And then in the course of a behavioural experiment, he met a boy called John Slade, and in a moment his life took a very different turn. Here, Martin recognized, was the perfect subject for a series of experiments he had never quite dared to try...Twenty years later in Brighton, and DS Minter is faced with the most bizarre murder of his fledgling career, when a dismembered body is casually dumped on a station platform. And then another body is discovered, and soon Minter has to face the possibility that Brighton now has its very own serial killer. A killer who seems to combine an off-the-scale IQ with a chilling brutality.