30 years ago ... Renowned artist, James Montague Ballantyne, is convicted of murdering eight people and using their remains in his infamous paintings. Now ... A face is recognised. Three lives collide. Old wounds reopen. Family man and dependable teacher, Sam Reed, foils a robbery and is celebrated in the media. Now the centre of unwanted attention, his carefully constructed life begins to unravel. Colleague and friend, Aiden Voss, a risk analyst with secrets of his own, is grieving the loss of his sister to alleged suicide. Journalist, Tamsin Fischer, still looking for answers to a decades-old disappearance, believes Sam is Ballantyne's son, and the only lead to finding her mother's remains. Proposing an unlikely alliance, she enlists Aiden's help to uncover the truth. Aiden has to call on all his skills and resources to unearth Sam's sketchy past and help Tamsin find closure. But something is fatally wrong with this picture. The Canvas Killings explores the weight of legacy, the compulsion for self-preservation, and the art of murder.