Hallowe'en. A body dressed as a vampire is found in a graveyard beneath the ruins of Tynemouth Priory.
It's not the first. In the weeks preceding All Saints Night, two more bodies were found: a homeless man discovered in a Newcastle city centre graveyard, and a second man in a Gateshead Cemetery. Both had been posed, a stake through their chests, and puncture wounds to the throat. Yet, neither were the cause of their deaths.
Whilst forensic pathologists Aaron Elliot and Rufus Cavanagh work to discover how the men died, DS Jarrod embarks on a journey to discover who killed them - and why.
It's a trip into a little-researched dark side of society, and one flamed by the unnerving feeling sinister forces are at play.
Met with a wall of silence and little evidence, Jarrod makes a decision which pits him face-to-face with an unspeakable evil.

Think of Ann Cleeves or LJ Ross with the gritty, urban twist of Ian Rankin and Peter James - that's the Ryan Jarrod series:explosive crime fiction in the mould of traditional dark thrillers.

What people are saying about the Ryan Jarrod series:

'Narrative so rich you can smell the Tyne’
'Crying out to be a TV series or motion picture!'
‘The pace of James Patterson'
'Just when you think you've seen all the plot twists, another one comes along!'
'A Geordie Rebus’
'Felt every pain and anguish. Story line excellent and what an ending'
'Wow! Colin Youngman you've done it again! You've penned another blinder of a novel'
'A real page-turner'
'Excellent twists and turns. More Ryan Jarrod, please'
'A rollicking, edge-of-the-seat read.'