Scarecrow

Investigative reporter, Danny Sanchez, has lived eight years in Almeria, southern Spain, working for the British expat paper, Sureste News. 

While working on his latest story – Kafkaesque bureaucracy leading to the demolition of an elderly couples’ home – a startling discovery is made: as the diggers begin to tear down the house, a decomposed body is revealed dangling between two walls, its head swathed in Gaffa Tape.

From this sinister beginning, Danny follows a trail of bodies that takes him back and forth between Spain and England, as he is led to revisit the first story he ever covered, the trial and conviction of the serial killer known as The Scarecrow. 

But with that man behind bars, how can bodies bearing the same distinctive pattern of mutilation be turning up in Spain? 

The Spanish police insist there is no connection - but then times are hard in Almeria and no one wants to admit a murderer is on the loose, and Danny finds himself struggling against corrupt bureaucracy, cowboy builders and a monstrous killer whose motives are so perverse as to defy description...

A dark and suspenseful thriller and based upon Matthew Pritchard's own experiences as a journalist in Spain, Scarecrow is a dark and suspenseful thriller, full of subtle twists and turns that will keep readers guessing right up until the final page.