The Sorcerer's Tattoo

In his latest novel, The Sorcerer's Tattoo, R.D. Byron-Smith turns to the mysterious world of black magic: conjurers and necromancers. Detective Wade Whiteside was a macho superstar in the homicide bureau until killing a suspect and his own personal demons ganged up to disgrace him. Exiled to a spineless desk job, he surreptitiously investigates a string of strange homicides. Soon, a road map of tattooed corpses leads him to a modern-day castle, where secrets of 16th Century divination, black arts and ritual death thrive, and dank catacombs wait.