Read the gripping first chapter from the 'hypnotic, menacing and powerful' (Mark Billingham) Blackbird by Tom Wright, forensic psychologist turned killer crime writer.
The day after a terrible storm, electricity still crackling in the air, a woman is found dead on the outskirts of a Texan town. She has been brutally attacked and nailed to a cross.
The victim is Dr Deborah Gold, a psychologist who has taken a lot of people's secrets to her grave.
Which means a lot of suspects for Detective Jim Beaudry Bonham to investigate. And lately he could use some psychological help himself . . .
