BLOOD RELATIONS

The smart, electrifying noir thriller follow up to 'The Poison Artist', this may be read as a stand-alone novel. Who is Claire Gravesend? So wonders PI Lee Crowe when he finds her dead in a fine cocktail dress on top of a Rolls Royce in the most dangerous neighbourhood in San Francisco. As ever with this writer there are some quirky characters and an unpredictable plot following the harrowing apparent suicide when Claire seemingly plummeted to her death from the top of a tall building. Fresh from a surveillance job, the disbarred lawyer Lee Crowe becomes slightly obsessed with the apparent death of this beautiful woman. Claire's mother doesn't believe the coroner - her daughter did not kill herself, but questions about the Gravesend family pile up fast. Until Crowe finds their secret home in San Francisco. Sleeping in an upstairs bedroom, he finds Claire, and as far as he can tell, she's alive. A novel that is electrifying and builds from shock to shock. 358pp in large paperback with fairly large print.