Of Flesh and Blood

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A forensic psychiatrists investigation into an infamous Louisiana serial killer leads him down a dangerous path of obsession as he discovers they share the same cursed blood. A chilling debut horror for lovers of Tender is the Flesh and Lapvona.

In 2008, a serial killer known as the Cajun Cannibal brutally murders and consumes the flesh of eight people in a small Louisiana parish. With law enforcement closing in on him, he takes his own life before he can face the inside of a courtroom.

Ten years later, when forensic psychiatrist Dr. Vincent Blackburn discovers he and the Cajun Cannibal are more closely connected than he realized, he begins a case study into the sociopathy behind the killers grisly deeds, only to find a torrent of small town politics, interracial family dynamics, and whispers of the supernatural muddying once clear waters.

When copycat killings begin, Vincent is thrust into the center of it all, putting his life, his family, and his own sanity at risk. As monstersboth figurative and literalbegin to manifest, Vincent discovers that untangling the truth from the lies is only the beginning of his nightmare.

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Of Flesh and Blood transported me to the humid swamps of Louisiana and made me double-check my doors and windows. Genuinely scary and stuffed with surprises, I only hope that the inevitable film is half as good as the novel. -- Richard Chizmar, New York Times bestselling author of Memorial and Chasing the Boogeyman
A meticulously detailed story of the Cajun Cannibal that will have true crime junkies salivating. A novel so true-crimey Im still wondering if it really happened! -- J. H. Markert, author of Sleep Tight

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Hunter Burke is a US actor known for Sweet Magnolias (2020), Claws (2017), The Big Short (2015) and Bosch (2014). He is originally from Broussard, Louisiana. Twitter/X: 1,655 followers; Instagram: 9,080 followers. Together with Dr Nick Lavin, Burke has written the screenplays for the Louisiana-set films Atchafalaya and Of Flesh and Blood is their debut novel. Dr Nick Lavin is as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, based in Lafayette, Louisiana, whose work informs the fictional narratives he writes with an experienced and empathetic lens on psychiatry and the complexities of mental health. No socials. Together with Hunter Burke, Lavin has written the screenplays for the Louisiana-set films Atchafalaya and Of Flesh and Blood is their debut novel.