Gathering Evidence

With extinction imminent, researchers visit an exclusive national park to observe one of the last troops of bonobo chimpanzees. Amid unusual behaviour and unexplained deaths, Shel Murray suspects her team is being hunted. Back at home, Shel’s partner is attacked touring their new property. Amnesiac and quarantined, John is visited by an inscrutable doctor. While recovering, he begins to questions not only the assault, but the renewed marks on his body, and the black fungus now growing on the walls. Stalked by fear, aware at last of how much they have to lose, Shel and John must combat the threat around them, a terrifying presence that promises to devour everything...

Martin MacInnes was born in Inverness in 1983. He has an MA from the University of York, has read at international science and literature festivals, and is the winner of a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award and the 2014 Manchester Fiction Prize. He lives in Edinburgh.