Blood Like Mine
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3.8 • 16 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A New York Times Best Horror Fiction of the Year Selection • Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Horror • A Parade Best Horror Books of the Year Selection
“A gruesome, action-packed monster novel about a mother and daughter with a terrible secret, on the run from an obsessed and crumbling detective . . . Terrific.” —The New York Times Book Review
In Stuart Neville’s horror debut, a mother's undying love and a daughter's insatiable hunger carve a bloody trail across the highways of the Southwest.
On a cold December night, single mother Rebecca Carter drives her van into a snowbank to avoid hitting an elk on a desolate mountain highway. She is at the end of her rope, out of money and food. Still, she refuses help from a passing stranger. Rebecca’s adolescent daughter, Moonflower, is on the run from a grisly secret, and the last thing they can afford is to be remembered.
Meanwhile, Special Agent Donner of the FBI has been hunting down a gruesome serial killer who drains their victims of blood before severing their spinal cords. As Agent Donner’s investigation brings him closer to the Carters, the life that Rebecca has fought so hard to hold together for her daughter becomes increasingly imperiled.
In this riveting, blood-soaked take on the vampire myth, nobody is safe and nothing is certain—not even the line between predator and prey.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Blood Like Mine messed with our minds and scared us silly, which is exactly what we want from a crime thriller/horror story combo. Rebecca Carter and her 12-year-old daughter, Moonflower, have been fugitives for years. FBI agent Marc Donner’s after Rebecca, suspecting that she’s the serial killer he’s become obsessed with finding. But the truth is something truly hard to handle. Author Stuart Neville shifts between Rebecca’s and Donner’s POVs, dropping creepy hints about the real story in between with items from Rebecca’s FBI file. He handles Donner’s search so well, he ought to script a big police procedural series. And when things take an unearthly turn, Neville knows just how to frighten the living daylights out of you. When the real story was revealed, we were knocked sideways. Whether you’re after some supernatural jump scares or classic serial-killer suspense, Blood Like Mine will scratch your itch.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Neville (The House of Ashes) gives the serial killer thriller a novel spin in this riveting splice of crime and weird fiction. FBI agent Marc Donner is a cybercrime specialist skilled at drawing out pedophiles and groomers by posing as vulnerable young people on social media. When some of his predator quarry turn up murdered with their throats slashed and their spinal cords severed, Marc speculates it's the work of a serial killer—and he's right. In a parallel story line, Rebecca Carter and her 12-year-old daughter employ the same sorts of online trickery to lure their victims as they cut a bloody swath from Wisconsin to Arizona. After tantalizing the reader with the prospect that the mother-daughter duo are female Dexters, Neville torques his tale fully into uncanny territory with a spectacular confrontation between Donner and the pair that propels his plot into the realm of the supernatural. The chapters toggle between Marc's and Rebecca's perspectives, sustaining breathless suspense as the story builds to its wild and cinematic finale. This is a satisfying exercise in high-voltage horror.
Customer Reviews
Excellent
100% adrenaline speared- it never stops.