In the Blood: A Genealogical Crime Mystery - Softcover

Robinson, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908603941 ISBN 13: 9781908603944

Publisher: Feedaread, 2011

Synopsis

Family history was never supposed to be like this... When American genealogist, Jefferson Tayte, accepted his latest assignment, he had no idea it might kill him. But while murder was never part of the curriculum, he is kidding himself if he thinks he can walk away from this one. Driven by the all-consuming irony of being a genealogist who doesn't know who his own parents are, Tayte soon finds that the assignment shares a stark similarity to his own struggle. Someone has gone to great lengths to erase an entire family bloodline from recorded history and he's not going home until he's found out why. After all, if he's not good enough to find this family, how can he ever expect to be good enough to someday find his own? Set in Cornwall, England, past and present, Tayte's research centres around the tragic life of a young Cornish girl, a writing box, and the discovery of a dark family secret that he believes will lead him to the family he is looking for. Trouble is, someone else is looking for the same answers and they will stop at nothing to find them.

About this title

Review

'This series is a page-turner and keeps getting better and better.’—Old Bones Genealogy

‘The mystery surrounding the Fairborne Family was excellent. By book’s end I hadn’t figured it out.’ —Cathy Cole, Kittling Books

'Do you remember Stieg Larsson’s first book, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo? Yep it was that good and if you liked the Millennium series then you’ll like this series too...In the Blood also reminded me of a Sherlock Homes adventure.’ —LifeInMichigan.com

‘I couldn’t put this book down, and I read it in a couple of days.’ —GenealogyUK.com

About the Author

Steve Robinson drew upon his own family history for inspiration when he imagined the life and quest of his genealogist-hero, Jefferson Tayte. The talented London-based crime writer, who was first published at age 16, always wondered about his own maternal grandfather – ‘He was an American GI billeted in England during the Second World War,’ Robinson says. ‘A few years after the war ended he went back to America, leaving a young family behind and, to my knowledge, no further contact was made. I traced him to Los Angeles through his 1943 enlistment record and discovered that he was born in Arkansas...’

Robinson cites crime writing and genealogy as ardent hobbies – a passion that is readily apparent in his work.

He can be contacted via his website www.steve-robinson.me or his blog at www.ancestryauthor.blogspot.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Feedaread
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908603941
• ISBN 13: 9781908603944
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316