Blood Always Tells
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Dominique Monaghan just wanted to get even with her two-timing, married boyfriend, a washed-up boxer stuck in a toxic marriage to a dangerously spoiled socialite. However, an elaborate blackmail scheme soon lands her in the middle of an unexpected kidnapping... and attempted murder. But who is actually out to kill whom?
Desmond Edgars, Dominique’s big brother, has looked out for his wayward sister ever since their mother was convicted of murder many years ago, so when he receives a frantic phone call from Dominique in the middle of the night, he drops everything to rush to the rescue. But to find out what has really happened to his sister, the stoic ex-military man must navigate a tangled web of murder and deception, involving a family fortune, a couple of shifty lawyers, and a missing child, while wrestling with his own bloody secrets...
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this riveting standalone from Anthony Award winner Davidson (Evil in All Its Disguises and two other Lily Moore mysteries), former model Dominique Monaghan decides to accompany her married ex-boyfriend, Gary Cowan, from New York City to his country place in the Hudson Valley as part of a blackmail scheme to destroy Gary's sham marriage to wealthy Trin Lytton-Jones. On arrival upstate, the pair are kidnapped and taken to an abandoned house in rural Pennsylvania. Gary claims to have orchestrated the kidnapping himself as part of a plan to kill Trin, but Dominique finds evidence that suggests otherwise. While the many double-crosses, shifting allegiances, and convoluted plot twists wear thin after a while, the relationship between Dominique and her brother, Desmond Edgars, who comes to Pennsylvania to investigate his sister's disappearance, keeps the reader turning the pages; the siblings' emotional solidity is a welcome respite from the sordid ploys of Gary's enemies.
