Sam Ripley is a pseudonym of Andrew Wilson, author of Beautiful Shadow: A Life of Patricia Highsmith, Harold Robbins: The Man who Invented Sex and the novel The Lying Tongue. The Gift of Death is Sam's first novel, the first in a series featuring former forensic artist Kate Cramer.
An ‘electrifying novel – pitch-perfect and brutal … a twisted gem’ – Kate Miciak, crime editor at Bantam Delacorte USA
A run of unspeakable crimes. A series of grotesque presents. The legacy of a dead serial killer.