Blood Relations
The smart, electrifying noir thriller follow up to The Poison Artist
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Beschreibung des Verlags
'Suspense that never stops' - James Patterson
Who is Claire Gravesend?
The first thing that catches PI Lee Crowe's eye is the Rolls Royce. The second is the body of a beautiful young woman lying dead on the crushed roof. Neither belongs in this neighbourhood.
The woman is Claire Gravesend - the daughter of one of the richest, most powerful women in California. She doesn't believe what the police are saying - that Claire killed herself - and hires Crowe to investigate.
Questions start to pile up as soon as he starts to dig. Strange scars - old marks which her mother won't explain - are found on Claire's body. Then Crowe is brutally attacked whist searching her Boston apartment and barely escapes with his life.
And when he visits Claire's secret pied-a-terre Crowe uncovers the biggest secret of all: sleeping in an upstairs room he finds Claire. Alive.
An enthralling blend of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Michael Crichton and Mickey Spillane - Blood Relations is a perfect pacy read.
'Taut, smart and electrifying.' -- Liv Constantine
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
San Francisco PI Leland Crowe, the narrator of this page-turner from Moore (The Night Market), investigates the alleged suicide of the only daughter of one of California's wealthiest women. When Claire Gravesend, a student attending Harvard University, is found dead on top of a Rolls Royce and wearing a black cocktail dress in the city's seedy Tenderloin neighborhood, the coroner quickly deems the death a suicide but Claire's mother wants more information and enlists Crowe's help. After fending off an attacker while searching Claire's residence in Boston, Crowe connects the pieces which include horrific scars on Claire's back from her childhood, the mysterious origins of her birth, and her interest in stem cell research to uncover a conspiracy that those involved are willing to murder to keep hidden. Though the disgraced and divorced Crowe is largely a genre clich , a well-crafted plot, relentless pacing, and the highly satisfying conclusion more than compensate. Equal parts mystery and thriller, this standalone is a winner.
