# Family Portrait

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- Book: [Family Portrait](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-masterton/family-portrait) ([Family Portrait.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-masterton/family-portrait.md))
- Authors: [Graham Masterton](https://www.bookquiver.com/graham-masterton)
- Publisher: hammer
- ISBN: 978-00-9956-184-2
- Pages: 496
- Published: 2011-07-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The first body was found in Europe. She had once been a beautiful young girl, but with exquisite skill someone had carefully teased the skin entirely away from her body, leaving nothing but a flayed and bloody carcass. A full examination of her ruined body reveals an horrific truth: She had been skinned alive. The second blood-raw corpse turned up in New England. Followed soon after by another, this time a victim of extreme decomposition, a mess of flesh convulsing with maggots. When a mysterious, crumbling painting is implicated in the deaths it seems that the investigating team has resorted to madness. But this rotten painting hides a terrifying family secret...