Why we’re excited
Two months after the events of the last book, Dr. Wren Muller is back at work in the New Orleans morgue. Girls start disappearing again in the two cities Jeremy Rose once hunted in, and a pastor in Massachusetts with secrets of his own drops out of sight.
This is the third Dr. Wren Muller novel. Alaina Urquhart co-hosts the true crime podcast Morbid and worked as an autopsy technician, which shows in the morgue scenes. New readers should start with The Butcher and the Wren and then The Butcher Game, since the villains carry over.
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What to know about The Butcher Legacy: A Dr. Wren Muller Novel
We have reviewed 2 of Alaina Urquhart’s books, with an average score of 4.0 out of 5. Our highest-rated so far is The Butcher Game (4★).
From the publisher
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!
The thrilling third novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling Dr. Wren Muller series from Alaina Urquhart
Two months after the life-altering events of The Butcher Game, Wren is back in the place she knows the New Orleans morgue. She buries herself in routine, surrounded by both familiar and new company, John Leroux and Maya Rodriguez, trying to convince herself that normalcy can be rebuilt. But in the weeks leading up to Halloween, shadows begin to move again as young girls vanish in both cities where Jeremy Rose once ran rampant.
Hundreds of miles away, the pastor to a close-knit congregation in Massachusetts Philip Trudeau is back behind the pulpit. But beneath his practiced composure lies something sinister—gruesome secrets and a hunger that did not die when Jeremy was caged.
With Jeremy behind bars and Philip suddenly nowhere to be found, Wren and Leroux must mobilize, and this twisted triangle clashes at every turn. The Butcher Legacy is a relentless, page-turning descent into the dark.
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