The Blood Detective (Nigel Barnes)

by Dan Waddell

It's not the best start to DCI Grant Foster's day: standing over a mutilated body in a windswept London churchyard. Although the killer has left a cryptic and brutal clue. It is only when the clue is handed to Nigel Barnes, a specialist in compiling family trees, that the full message becomes spine-chillingly clear. For it leads Barnes back more than 100 years - to the victim of a demented Victorian serial killer...When a second body is discovered, Foster needs Barnes's skills more than ever. Because the murderer's clues appear to run along the tangled bloodlines that lie between 1879 and now. And if Barnes is right about his blood-history, the killing has only just begun...

• ISBN10: 0312378904
• ISBN13: 9780312378905
• Publish Date: 10 June 2008 (first published 1 May 2008)
• Publish Status: Out of Print
• Out of Print: 28 June 2021
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Minotaur Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 299
• Language: English

Reviews

[Mystereity Reviews]

Great story, very well paced. The characters were a bit flat, I found I didn't connect with them all that much. I thought the whole Duckworth/Kent angle was utterly ridiculous and unnecessary. It didn't add suspense for me, just annoyance. Ditto Nigel's reasons for leaving the college. WTF was so sordid about that?

Overall. an enjoyable start to a new and intereting series.