When a teenage girl is strangled and left for dead on a lonely country
lane, by an attacker she describes has having the head of a dog, the
police are baffled. But when the body of another young woman is found
mutilated and wrapped in a white linen sheet, DI Wesley Peterson
suspects that the killer is performing an ancient ritual linked to
Anubis, the jackal-headed Egyptian god of death and mummification.
Meanwhile, archaeologist Neil Watson has been called to Varley Castle to
catalogue the collection of Edwardian amateur Egyptologist, Sir
Frederick Varley. However, as his research progresses, Neil discovers
that Wesley's strange murder case bears sinister similarities to four
murders that took place near Varley Castle in 1903 - murders said to
have been committed by Sir Frederick's son.
As the Jackal Man's identity remains a frustrating enigma, it seems that
the killer has yet another victim in mind. A victim close to Wesley
Peterson himself . . .