The Canvas Killings

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>30 years ago ...</strong></p><p></p><p>Renowned artist James Montague Ballantyne is convicted of murdering eight people and using their remains in his infamous paintings.</p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Now ...</strong></p><p></p><p>A face is recognised. Three lives collide. Old wounds reopen.</p><p></p><p>Family man and dependable teacher Sam Reed foils a robbery and is celebrated in the media. Now the centre of unwanted attention his carefully constructed life begins to unravel.</p><p></p><p>Colleague and friend Aiden Voss a risk analyst with secrets of his own is grieving the loss of his sister to alleged suicide.</p><p></p><p>Journalist Tamsin Fischer still looking for answers to a decades-old disappearance believes Sam is Ballantyne's son and the only lead to finding her mother's remains. Proposing<span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span>an unlikely alliance she enlists Aiden's help to uncover the truth. Aiden has to call on all his skills and resources to unearth Sam's sketchy past and help Tamsin find closure.</p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But something is fatally wrong with this picture.</strong></p><p></p><p><em>The Canvas Killings</em> explores the weight of legacy the compulsion for self-preservation and the art of murder.</p>