The Butcher Legacy : The nail-biting new Dr. Wren Muller serial killer thriller for 2026 (Dr. Wren Muller)

The third instalment of the bestelling Dr. Wren Muller series from the host of Morbid: A true crime podcast. __________ Two months after the life-changing events on the tale of a serial killer known as the 'Bayou Butcher', forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller is back in the place she knows best: the New Orleans morgue. She buries herself in routine, surrounded by both familiar and new company, John Leroux and Maya Rodriguez, trying to convince herself that normality can be rebuilt. But in the weeks leading up to Halloween, shadows begin to move again as young girls vanish in both cities where Jeremy Rose, the unmasked Bayou Butcher, once ran rampant. Hundreds of miles away, the pastor to a close-knit congregation in Massachusetts Philip Trudeau is back behind the pulpit. But beneath his practiced composure lies something sinister-gruesome secrets and a hunger that did not die when Jeremy was caged. ---------- Praise for the Dr. Wren Muller series: 'CAPTIVATING. The reader might want to shut their eyes, but the joust between the killer and the pathologist makes that impossible' ― DAILY MAIL 'Amazing twists. Unputdownable' ― Samantha Downing, author of My Lovely Wife 'Alaina Urquhart has set a new benchmark for the serial killer novel' ― Margot Douaihy, USA Today bestselling author of Scorched Grace and Blessed Water 'Urquhart has crafted a thriller that is necessarily graphic but not exploitative. The crisp detail, the narrative brevity and the blade-sharp connections between the pathologist and the killer all bode well for future installments' - Sarah Weinman, New York Times 'A read-in-one-sitting kind of book' - Sarah Gelman, CBS Mornings 'Urquhart paints a tense and dangerous world for us right from the start and delivers it all with a skilled and evocative hand' - Aaron Mahnke, creator of the Lore podcast and author of The World of Lore series 'Looking for the perfect way to kick off your spooky season? Well, you can end your search now as the co-host of the wild