Diana Bretherick

James Murray, a young Scottish doctor fascinated by the workings of the criminal mind, travels to Turin to study with the world-renowned criminologist, Cesare Lombroso. But the discovery of a horrifically mutilated body in the nearby Piazza Statuto, and a note that appears to implicate the celebrated criminologist himself, changes everything.

1888. When young Scottish scientist James Murray receives a letter from Sofia Esposito, a woman he once loved and lost, he cannot refuse her cry for help. Sofia's fifteen-year-old cousin has vanished but the police are unwilling to investigate. As he embarks on his search for the missing girl, Murray uncovers a series of mysterious disappearances and rumours of a haunted abbey on the outskirts of the city.