Book description
The first body was found in Europe. She had once been a beautiful
young girl, but with exquisite skill someone had carefully teased the
skin entirely away from her body, leaving nothing but a flayed and
bloody carcass. A full examination of her ruined body reveals an
horrific truth: She had been skinned alive. The second blood-raw
corpse turned up in New England. Followed soon after by another, this
time a victim of extreme decomposition, a mess of flesh convulsing
with maggots.
When a mysterious, crumbling painting is implicated in the deaths it
seems that the investigating team has resorted to madness. But this
rotten painting hides a terrifying family secret...
Graham Masterton was born in Edinburgh in 1946. After training as
a newspaper reporter, Graham went on to edit the new British men's
magazine Mayfair. At the age of 24, Graham was appointed
executive editor of both Penthouse and Penthouse Forum
magazines.
Graham Masterton's debut as a horror author began with the wildly
popular The Manitou in 1976. Altogether Graham has written more
than a hundred novels ranging from thrillers and horror, to disaster
novels and historical sagas, as well as four short story
collections. He lives in Surrey, England.
