A killer who can't be stopped. A request that can't be refused.

In 1482 the Englishman Thomas Berrington is living in the last remnants of Moorish Spain. A physician, he is an unwilling friend to the most powerful man in the kingdom. When bodies start to turn up, each showing the marks of a savage attack, Thomas is asked to investigate.

What begins as a reluctant task turns into a fight for survival when one of the Sultan's wives is brutally murdered. Thomas, together with the eunuch Jorge, seek to track down the killer before they become his next victims. Except nothing is as it seems--friends turn into enemies and enemies into friends.

Alongside all of this Thomas has been made the gift of a beautiful woman. She resurrects long-buried memories he would prefer remain hidden, together with the truth of his past.

March 1483, and Spain is preparing for yet more war.

Surgeon Thomas Berrington makes a reluctant journey to Qurtuba at the request of his master. He expects only to operate on a Spanish prince and return home to Moorish al-Andalus. But fate has something else in store for him and his companion, the eunuch Jorge.
A warped killer has been murdering young women and creating twisted creatures from their bodies. When Thomas is tasked by Queen Isabel to hunt down the culprit he is propelled into an unfamiliar world of religious mania where it is impossible to tell who can be trusted. Meanwhile Jorge is on a quest of his own�to track down the family he hasn�t seen in almost twenty years.

When Jorge�s new found niece is chosen as the Bonebreaker�s next victim the pair are faced with their most dangerous challenge yet. Will they be able to expose the killer in time, or is there yet another life to pay for one man�s madness?

Sometimes only sacrifice can save those you love.

Moorish Spain, 1484, and no-one is innocent.
Thomas Berrington, emigre Englishman who has made the doomed city of Garnatah his home, is once again attempting to solve a series of mysterious deaths. Accompanied by his companion, the palace eunuch Jorge, Thomas struggles to discover the truth while those in power seek to distract him. As his investigation continues, his personal life splinters into chaos and he finds the Spanish once more demanding his presence.
As Thomas and Jorge draw closer to their quarry, the killer’s attention turns on them and those they love. The pair must race to unmask the sin eater before the lives of those close to them become forfeit.
The Sin Eater is the follow up to The Red Hill and Breaker of Bones, stunning historical mysteries set in a time and place coloured by intrigue and battle.

He comes in the night to steal your final breath.

For Thomas Berrington, torn between two warring civilisations, Ronda is meant to be an escape from the madness engulfing Gharnatah. For al-Zagal, the default leader of al-Andalus, it is a return to his mountain stronghold. In the year 1485 this should be a time of recovery and replenishment.

Until the Spanish army arrives, spreading across the plain below towering cliffs. And in the town women are being murdered, so subtly the first deaths go unnoticed.

Once more Thomas and Jorge are thrown into the pursuit of a killer as the world around them changes, and the end of a once great civilisation draws closer. Can they unmask the Incubus before he steals the breath of more victims?

Set in the final years of the Moorish Empire that once ruled Spain, The Incubus is the fourth book in the acclaimed Thomas Berrington mysteries.