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30 years ago ... Renowned artist, James Montague Ballantyne, is convicted of murdering eight people and using their remains in his infamous paintings. Now ... A face is recognised. Three lives collide. Old wounds reopen. 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. Colleague and friend, Aiden Voss, a risk analyst with secrets of his own, is grieving the loss of his sister to alleged suicide. 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 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. But something is fatally wrong with this picture. The Canvas Killings explores the weight of legacy, the compulsion for self-preservation, and the art of murder.

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A unique, highly original crime thriller with nuanced characters and a page-turning plot ... written with emotion and literary skill while remaining true to its crime roots. The ending is a triumph Cass Moriarty, author of The Promise Seed An exceptional debut crime thriller from Elise Janes. Gobsmackingly good KD Aldyn, author of Sister Butcher Sister I was so intrigued with this premise and haunted by how easily this could be true. It offered a twist I didn't see coming happyvalley_booksread The story is gruesome, twisty and full of surprises. An absolute page-turner and a must-read for crime fiction fans! Sublimely different to any other crime novel I've read. Could not put it down. Great classic crime novel set in Melbourne (at last!)

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Elise Janes is a pseudonym for the writing partnership of Elise Wackett and Jane Abbott.Elise Wackett has co-authored several Japanese and Indonesian textbooks: ""Hai!"" Publisher: Heinemann 2004; ""Hai, Ima!"" Publisher: CIS Heinemann 2002; ""Bagus Sekali!"" Publisher: Pearson 2000. She is a teacher and travel writer and lives in Melbourne. ""The Canvas Killings"" is her first work of fiction.Jane Abbott is the author of two novels published by Penguin Random House: ""Watershed"" & ""Elegy"" which was shortlisted for the Ethel Turner Prize for Young People's Literature, 2017. She lives in Bendigo, Victoria. ""The Canvas Killings"" is her first crime novel.

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