The Jackal Man

When a teenage girl is strangled and left for dead on a lonely country lane by an attacker she describes has having the head of a dog the police are baffled. But when the body of another young woman is found mutilated and wrapped in a white linen sheet DI Wesley Peterson suspects that the killer is performing an ancient ritual linked to Anubis the jackal-headed Egyptian god of death and mummification.

Meanwhile archaeologist Neil Watson has been called to Varley Castle to catalogue the collection of Edwardian amateur Egyptologist Sir Frederick Varley. However as his research progresses Neil discovers that Wesley's strange murder case bears sinister similarities to four murders that took place near Varley Castle in 1903 - murders said to have been committed by Sir Frederick's son.

As the Jackal Man's identity remains a frustrating enigma it seems that the killer has yet another victim in mind. A victim close to Wesley Peterson himself . . .