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Catherine “Cat” Ferry is a forensic odontologist, a specialist in bite marks and the clues they provide. But while Cat’s colleagues know her as a world-class scientist, she secretly attempts to manage her fragile psyche with alcohol, delving into the minds of rapists and murderers yet never allowing her own frightening past to creep into the foreground.
Cat’s latest case involves a disturbing murder in New Orleans. Banishing her personal demons, she focuses on the potential killer, until one morning she’s paralyzed by a panic attack at a grisly murder scene. Praying the attack is a onetime event, she continues her job as a consultant to the New Orleans Police Department, but when another victim dies in the same shocking way—raising fears that a serial killer is at large—Cat blacks out over the victim’s mutilated corpse.
Suspended from the FBI task force, plagued by nightmares, and at odds with her married lover—a homicide detective—Cat finally reaches her breaking point. In a desperate effort to regain control over a life spiraling out of control, Cat retreats to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi. 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 sight shocks her more than any corpse she has seen in her career. Cat’s father was murdered when she was eight years old, but she always believed the crime occurred in the garden outside their home. The bloody footprints suggest otherwise.
Driven by this fragment of her past, Cat attempts a forensic reconstruction of the decades-old crime, even as developments with the New Orleans task force pull her back into the case she left behind. Plagued by troubling nightmares, Cat pieces together the horrifying events she has been shielded from all her life. Soon, both she and the FBI realize that the murders occurring now in New Orleans are intimately bound up with Cat’s family and her past.
Can Cat trust her own memories? Or has the truth been so distorted that she can never know her family’s real history? Finding a solution to these intertwined murders means more than stopping a remorseless killer—it may be the only way to save Cat Ferry’s sanity...and her life.
Greg Iles is a masterful storyteller. In this dramatic novel of suspense he deftly probes the relationship between good and evil, and the unique power of human memory to reconstruct—or completely reinvent—the past.
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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)
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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)
From the internationally best-selling author of DEAD SLEEP and DARK MATTER comes another tale of earth-shattering suspense.
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- PublisherBrilliance Audio
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1480568325
- ISBN 13 9781480568327
- BindingMP3 CD
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