The Art of Murder

<p><b><i>If you like reading the likes of Cara Hunter, Stuart MacBride and Karin Slaughter, then this grisly, thought-provoking and spine-tingling thriller from international bestselling author Michael White is perfect for you. The case just will not let you go...</i></b><br><b><br>WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT <i>THE ART OF MURDER</i></b><br><b>'Had me turning the pages' -- ***** Reader review</b><br><b>'Loved it' -- ***** Reader review</b> <p>*********************************************************************************************<br><b>THE MOST FAMOUS KILLER IN HISTORY HAS A DISCIPLE - IN 21ST-CENTURY LONDON...</b> <p>In all his years on the force, <b>Detective Chief Inspector Pendragon</b> had never seen a corpse like this one. After the initial horror, he recognised the reference to the surrealist painter, <b>Magritte</b>. But that made the crime even more sickening - accomplished, as it had been, with a ferocity which placed it in another league from common or garden murder. <p>It brought to mind the crimes committed in in <b>the Whitechapel area of London in the 1880s</b> by a person who remains unidentified to this day: a series of sadistic murders of local prostitutes, which involved elaborate mutilation of the victims' bodies. <p>Although the contemporary crimes are not directed exclusively at female targets, there is grotesque similarity in the mindset of the two perpetrators - divided, as they are, by more than a century. <p><b>But Pendragon is determined that his pathologically brilliant killer will not escape detection.</b></p>