Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd

In the eighteenth century, Nicholas Dyer, an apprentice of Sir Christopher Wren, is responsible for the building of six churches across London. But Mr Dyer is not all he seems. He practices the Dark Arts and wants to introduce his religion into the bodies of the churches that he is building. This means he is forced to lead a double life and when someone gets in his way, he gets rid of them as only he can. Two hundred and fifty years later, a detective called Hawksmoor is brought in to solve a selection of murders, all with the same modus operandi, committed in the grounds of different churches across London. Each time, there is no forensic evidence remaining ...