Blood Memory - Softcover

Iles, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 143912826X ISBN 13: 9781439128268

Synopsis

Forensic expert "Ca" Ferry has a stellar reputation until a panic attack paralyzes her at a New Orleans murder scene. Praying the attack is a one-time event, she continues working, but when the same killer strikes again-raising fears that a serial killer is at large-Cat blacks out over the victim's mutilated corpse. Suspended from the FBI task force, Cat returns to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi, to regroup. Though her colleagues know her as a world-class forensic odontologist, Cat lives a secret life. Plagued by nightmares, and deeply involved with a married homicide detective, Cat holds herself together with iron nerves and alcohol, using her work as a substitute for life. But her family's secluded antebellum estate provides no sanctuary. When some of Cat's forensic chemicals are spilled in her childhood bedroom, two bloody footprints are revealed. This discovery sets in motion a quest to piece together Cat's past-buried memories that could tie her father's murder to the grisly deaths occurring in New Orleans in the present. For only by finding this remorseless killer can Cat save her sanity-and her life.

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Review

Iles's way of telling the story lifts him clear of the pack ... into a different league. I guess that makes BLOOD MEMORY what publishers call 'the breakthrough novel' - the book that finally gets a writer with a reasonable following noticed by a much bigger readership. (Observer)

One of America's top new crime writers ... the classic Iles combination of complex plotting and high drama. (Observer)

Edge-of-the-seat thrills all the way (Irish Independent)

Deftly navigating the perilous waters between science and spirituality, Greg Iles has crafted an alarming, believable, and utterly consuming tale of good and evil, of destiny and choice. The Footprints of God is my favorite kind of novel--one that educates while it entertains. Ambitious in its scope and superbly satisfying in its execution, this story resonates long after the final page is turned. (Dan Brown, author of The Da Vinci Code, on)

Greg Iles is a superb writer. (Linda Fairstein on Dark Matter)

Book Description

From the internationally best-selling author of DEAD SLEEP and DARK MATTER comes another tale of earth-shattering suspense.

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 143912826X
• ISBN 13: 9781439128268
• Binding: Paperback