Blood atonement

Description

Katie Drake was an affluent, single mother living in Queen's Park &8211; until someone cut her throat and tore out her tongue. Worst still, the killer has abducted her fourteen-year-old daughter Naomi.Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster quickly sees chilling parallels to the disappearance - presumed murder - of teenager Deborah Chilton three years earlier. With hopes fading of finding Naomi alive, he calls on genealogist Nigel Barnes to piece together the links between the families of the two girls.The trail leads Nigel back to 1890, when a young couple arrived from America. A husband and wife fleeing a terrible crime in their past, and harbouring a secret that's now having bloody repercussions in the present...

Description

Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster is called to a homicide at the home of a single mother in Queens Park, London. Her throat has been cut from ear to ear and her body dumped in the garden. Her daughter and only child, Naomi, who has just turned fourteen this day, is missing. As the hours tick by, the feeling grows among Foster's colleagues that this mis most likely becoming a double-murder inquiry. With nothing in the present to indicate a motive, Foster decides to delve into the woman's past, only to find out she doesn't have one. Not sure where else to turn for information, he calls on genealogist, Nigel Barnes for help.

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• Fiction

Other Editions

• Blood atonementMinotaur Books2009-01-01
• Blood AtonementeBookPenguin Group UK2009-01-01
• Blood AtonementSt. Martin's Press2009-01-01
• Blood AtonementPaperbackViking2009-09-08
• Blood AtonementpaperbackCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform2017-05-19