The Butcher Legacy

Praise for The Butcher Legacy

“The Butcher Legacy is a real thriller—and Dr. Wren Muller is a fiery female protagonist that Scarpetta would call friend. I can imagine the two of them working a case together—what a ride that would be!” —Patricia Cornwell

“The Butcher Legacy is razor-sharp entertainment and brilliantly written. A top-notch thriller that kept me turning the pages long into the night, it’s as smart as it is suspenseful.” —Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling author of Chasing the Boogeyman

“In The Butcher Legacy, Alaina Urquhart delivers a relentlessly dark thriller that escalates with unnerving confidence. Her prose is sharp and unsentimental, driving the story forward with a mounting sense of inevitability and moral rot. This is a book unafraid to stare directly at violence, obsession, and the damage left behind by men who believe they’re righteous. Cold, propulsive, and deeply disturbing, The Butcher Legacy doesn’t flinch.” —Carter Wilson, USA Today bestselling author of Tell Me What You Did

“Like a mix of Karin Slaughter and Silence of the Lambs, The Butcher Legacy features a captivating serial killer who haunts the lives of his investigators, even as he’s behind bars. Every time that I thought I’d guessed the ending, a new wrinkle emerged creating a complicated web of killers, their motives, and their victims.” —Tasha Coryell, author of Love Letters to a Serial Killer and Matchmaking for Psychopaths

“Alaina Urquhart pulls no punches with The Butcher Legacy, this riveting third novel in the Dr. Wren Muller series. I thought my mind was blown after the second one, but consider it blown again! With The Silence of the Lambs vibes throughout, this creepy story crawls under your skin, cuts sharp, cuts often, and gruesomely left me begging for more!” —J.H. Markert, author of Sleep Tight

“The Doctor Wren Muller saga continues apace with The Butcher Legacy, which builds on the characters and relationships laid in The Butcher and the Wren and The Butcher Game. Urquhart’s real-life expertise and clear, clean prose combine to create an intense serial-killer chiller that is shocking and twisty yet also grounded in the realities of homicide investigation. Fans of Doctor Muller should devour it.” —Neil Sharpson, author of The Burial Tide


Praise for the Dr. Wren Muller Series

“The Butcher Game is a startling case study in suspense and obsession.” ―Margot Douaihy, USA Today bestselling author of the Sister Holiday Mysteries

“[B]lade-sharp.” —The New York Times

“A read-in-one-sitting kind of book.” —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

“[W]ill give your goosebumps chills.” —E! News

“Dark, twisty, full of authentic detail, it’ll have you listening to the night in an entirely different way.” —Booktrib

“Alaina Urquhart treats fans of pulse-pounding novels to a thrill ride pitting a notorious serial killer in a battle of wits against the medical examiner determined to bring him down.” —Books-A-Million