Blood Moon
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4.4 • 37 Ratings
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- $15.99
Publisher Description
In this sexy thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown, an unruly detective and an ambitious TV show producer work against the clock to prevent another young woman from disappearing before the next blood moon—while trying to resist the attraction between them.
Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case. Bowie has been instructed by his boss to keep to his criticisms over the mishandling of the investigation to himself.
Beth Collins, a senior producer on Crisis Point, knows what classifies as a great story and when there’s something more to be told. After working on the show for seven years, Collins is convinced that Crissy Mellin’s disappearance was not an isolated incident. A string of disappearances of teenage girls in nearby areas have only one thing in common: They took place on the night of a blood moon. In a last-ditch effort to find out the truth, Beth enlists Detective Bowie to help her figure out what happened to Crissy and find the true culprit before he acts on the next blood moon—in four days’ time.
With their jobs and their lives at risk, Bowie and Collins band together to catch the killer while fighting an irresistible spark between them that threatens to upend everything.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In this solid erotic thriller, bestseller Brown (Out of Nowhere) entwines a sexy love story with the search for a killer. Detective John Bowie of the Auclair, La., police department is known among his colleagues for his strong opinions. His vocal doubts about the arrest of Billy Oliver, a young Black man, in the disappearance of 18-year-old Crissy Mellin—which led to Oliver's suicide—has put Bowie in direct conflict with his superior officer, Lt. Tom Barker. Three and a half years after Oliver's death, a still-haunted Bowie is approached by Beth Collins, producer for the popular true crime show Crisis Point. Beth is developing an episode based on what she believes could be major evidence tying Crissy's abduction to a series of similar crimes, all of which occurred under blood moons. After Bowie agrees to help Beth relitigate Crissy's case, Barker fires him, giving Bowie the freedom to handle things on his own terms. From their first meeting, Bowie's and Beth's chemistry is palpable, and Brown peppers their sleuthing with plenty of steamy sex scenes. The investigation itself feels a little rote, but Brown's fans will get exactly what they came for.
