The Flayer

"Blending an affinity for folklore and local legends with the grisly entertainment of a good slasher, D.C. Phillips' The Flayer seeks to carve out a unique spot in your TBR pile. Highly recommended for fans of Candyman, Urban Legend, or Brian McAuley's Curse of the Reaper." -William Sterling, Author of String Them Up Flecks of congealed blood freckled the body's face, if you could still call it a face. The skin had been expertly flayed from hairline to chin and from ear to ear. All that remained was a raw, pulpy canvas, punctuated by two alarming and alert eyes, two open windows with no shades to pull.

Someone is slaughtering the residents of Felton, a suburb of Anywhere, USA. It's a flat and largely unremarkable place, and the powers that be strive to keep it that way. However, when the latest body in a string of gruesome murders is discovered by Kyle Bloch, an aspiring journalist, things will never be the same. Alongside Olivia the librarian, he must race the clock-and a pack of ambulance-chasing true-crime hounds-to uncover the truth. Could it be that a legend as old as the town holds the key to this mystery?