The Blood Detective

Baffled by the killing of a man whose nude, mutilated body has turned up in a London graveyard, Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster and his colleague, Detective Superintendent Heather Jenkins, call in genealogist Nigel Barnes to assist in the case, when the carved letters and numbers on the corpse turn out to refer to city archive files of birth, death, and marriage certificates. A first novel. 15,000 first printing.