The Witch's Scalpel - The Beginning (book 1)

The Witch’s Scalpel: The Beginning
Dr Anwen Rhys knows what the dead remember.
She just can’t tell the police how she knows.

By day, Anwen is a forensic pathologist, trained to trust evidence, anatomy and the cold certainty of science.

She is also a witch.

When her bare skin touches the dead, Anwen can be dragged into the memories they left behind—their fear, their pain, sometimes even their final moments. It is a gift she has spent years learning to control, and one she can never admit to possessing.

Because visions aren’t evidence.

But when a woman’s body is recovered from the Thames, brutally dismembered with mechanical precision, Anwen sees something during the examination that should be impossible to know: a white room, stainless steel, paralysis—and a killer preparing to use a saw.

The police begin hunting for the room.

Anwen begins hunting for the person who stood inside it.

And someone is already watching the investigation from the shadows, interfering with evidence and making certain the police never get too close.

As more victims emerge and the case tightens around secrets buried for years, Anwen is forced to rely increasingly on the one thing she can never explain.

But every time she reaches into the memories of the dead, something reaches back.

Forensic science can tell Anwen how they died.
Her witchcraft may be the only thing that can tell her who killed them.

The Witch’s Scalpel: The Beginning is a dark, atmospheric supernatural crime thriller combining forensic investigation, police procedural, murder mystery and witchcraft in contemporary London.

The dead are talking. Dr Anwen Rhys is listening.