When Aleister Ward left the Wyldston police force to become a private investigator he hoped that the horrors that he had seen in his past would remain solely in his nightmares, however his newest case threatens to open up old wounds and create vicious new ones. As he is trying to be the father that his daughter deserves in the absence of his wife, he is pulled into a multiple murder investigation where he must try to clear his own name whilst simultaneously finding the root of the sinister killings.Shred is the first novella in a six part occult horror mystery series Cuts of Flesh from Jacob Prytherch, author of The Binary Man and Heal The Sick, Raise The Dead.