Renowned pathologist John Hardy is thinking of leaving his job following the death of his wife - but when a series of women are found murdered, leaving police baffled, it's up to Hardy to try and crack one last big case. The odds are against him - a local nightclub owner is the key suspect, but fair means don't seem to be enough to get a conviction, not when the other side has experts of their own...will Hardy manage to succeed?
An insight into the latest scientific crime-fighting techniques available during 1970s investigations, The Expert was previously made into an acclaimed TV series and draws on the author's extensive experience in pathology.
Author Biography
Professor Bernard Knight, CBE, (born 1931) became a Home Office pathologist in 1965 and was appointed Professor of Forensic Pathology, University of Wales College of Medicine, in 1980. He has been writing since before 1963, when his first crime novel was published.
Since then, he has written about thirty books, including contemporary crime fiction, historical novels about Wales, biography, non-fiction popular works on forensic medicine, twelve medico-legal textbooks and the Crowner John Mysteries series of 12th-century historical mysteries.
