The Blood Detective
The BLOOD DETECTIVE
Genre: Crime
Release Date: 28/02/2017
Nominated for the CWA New Blood Dagger in the UK and Macavity First Book
award in the USA, and winner of the Prix Cezam Littéraire.
As dawn
breaks over London, the body of a young man is discovered in a Notting Hill
churchyard. The killer has left DCI Grant Foster and his team a grisly, cryptic
clue. It's not until the clue is handed to Nigel Barnes, a specialist in
compiling family trees, that the full message becomes spine-chillingly clear.
It leads Barnes back more than one hundred years – to the victim of a demented
Victorian serial killer. When a second body is discovered Foster needs Barnes's
skills more than ever. The murderer's clues appear to run along the tangled
bloodlines that lie between 1879 and now. And if Barnes is right, the killing
spree has only just begun . . .
The Blood
Detective is a haunting crime novel of blood-stained family histories and
gruesome secrets.
‘Expertly
plotted and with great attention to detail, this is the start of a series that
has already put down substantial roots of its own’ – Mark Billingham.
‘A
fascinating and original investigation into the dark roots of our family trees’ – Val McDermid
'There's panache
aplenty in this intriguing tale. Sharp plotting, elegant writing, engaging
characters, a cracking climax. A series is promised. Bring it on!' Reginald Hill
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Dan Waddell is the award-winning author of more than
20 works of fiction and non-fiction, among them the bestselling book which
accompanied the BBC TV series Who Do You Think You Are? His first crime novel,
the critically-acclaimed The Blood Detective, won the prestigious Prix Cezam
Littéraire in France and was nominated for debut awards in the UK and USA.
He lives in London with his family.
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