Stuart Neville Blood Like Mine

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Binding: Paperback

Date Published: 15 Aug 2024

'Stuart Neville at his considerable best. A shocking and powerful thriller that is as moving as it is gripping. This is a book you will not forget in a hurry and which will leave you hungry for the next instalment' MARK BILLINGHAM

'A clever, brooding narrative that left me feeling the boundaries of possibility had blurred' NATALIE CHANDLER

You would do anything to protect your child.
Even if she's a monster . . .

Rebecca Carter and her daughter Monica, nicknamed Moonflower, travel the American West, always on the move, always hiding, always looking behind them, always keeping Moonflower out of sight.

They speak to no one, only interacting with people when it's absolutely necessary.

But wherever they go, bodies are left behind.

Special Agent Marc Donner of the FBI has been tracking a killer for the best part of two years. A murderer that strikes once every few weeks. The victims are all men, many disappearing only to be found months later, dumped in forests or rivers or quarries, far from their places of death. All of them with their throats opened, their bodies bled out and their spinal cords severed.

The killer leaves no trace, no clues - only a trail of corpses.

After all this time, Donner has gleaned only a handful of facts from the few witnesses and snippets of CCTV footage available. He's hunting a middle-aged woman who drives a van with blacked-out windows and false plates. Often she poses as a child online to lure in her prey. It's never been enough to track her down though.

Until now.

And so begins a cat-and-mouse game between Donner and his prey, Rebecca and Moonflower. But who is the actual hunter - and who is the actual prey? For perhaps Moonflower isn't the child that her mother claims she is. Perhaps she's something else - and as Donner puts everything on the line to capture them and prove his suspicions right, perhaps he isn't prepared to face what is really out there.

Let the Right One In meets Stephen King in this chilling thriller about a mother's love, a daughter's devotion, a man's obsession - and the darkness that lives within us all.

About the Author

Stuart Neville's debut novel, The Twelve (published in the USA as The Ghosts of Belfast), won the Mystery/Thriller category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was picked as one of the top crime novels of 2009 by both the New York Times and the LA Times. He has since published ten more critically acclaimed books, two of which were under the pen name Haylen Beck, and a collection of short stories.

He has been shortlisted for several awards, including the MWA Edgar Award for Best Novel, the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, the Barry, Macavity, and Dilys awards, and the Irish Book Awards Crime Novel of the Year.

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'Stuart Neville at his very, very best - this book grabs your heart and doesn't let go'
- Ruth Ware

'An action packed thriller, the mid-way twist in this book will leave you as breathless as several victims on the pages of this relentlessly-paced and unexpectedly moving story as the reader is propelled towards the truly shocking conclusion. Bravo Stuart Neville! Utterly brilliant'
- Liz Nugent

'Blood Like Mine is one of those books that once you read the first few pages, you simply cannot put it back down. This is a character-driven thriller that you will not be able to forget. Simply brilliant'
- Steve Cavanagh

'I absolutely loved Blood Like Mine . . . Thrilling, heartbreaking, and completely compelling. My heart was in my throat the whole time'
- Alex North

'What a book! Exciting, propulsive and vivid. A thriller with real bite'
- Mark Edwards

'Wow, just WOW. I've waited a long time for a crime novel to do something different, to keep me guessing, to blow me away - this is that book . . . I lived and breathed every second and flew through the pages - desperate to keep reading but not wanting it to end. Wholly originally and utterly compelling, this is an incredibly tense book that is also full of regret, guilt and love. Blood Like Mine will grip you from the first page and keep you prisoner until you turn the last page. I absolutely loved it'
- C. L. Taylor

'Beautiful and dark as all hell. Poignant. Nightmarish . . . Original, terrifying and horrifically tense. This book is your next obsession (and Neville might well be Stephen King's rightful heir)'
- Will Dean

'At its core, Blood Like Mine is the story of a mother's unconditional love for her daughter, and that gives everything that happens - the growing horror, the murders, the frantic desperation - an almost unbearable emotional punch. I've not read anything quite like this before, and once it sank its teeth in, I was utterly gripped . . . and I'm eager for more'
- Tim Lebbon

'A masterclass in storytelling, Blood Like Mine is a dark, chilling tale that will grip you from the very first page. Steeped in the emotion of love and loss, Neville's characters are captivating and leap off the page to grab you by the throat - this is a story that you won't forget'
- Sam Blake

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