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Blood Relations
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A California heiress’s death leads a PI into her powerful family’s unsettling secrets in a “gritty neo-noir with an all-too-plausible speculative twist” (Publishers Weekly).
Who is Claire Gravesend? So wonders PI Lee Crowe when he finds her dead, in a cocktail dress, on top of a Rolls Royce, in the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco. Claire’s mother, Olivia, is one of the richest people in California. She doesn’t believe the coroner’s ruling of suicide. Olivia hires Crowe, who—having just foiled a federal case against a cartel kingpin—is eager for distraction. But the questions about the Gravesend family pile up fast.
First, Caire’s autopsy reveals peculiar scars that Olivia won’t explain. Then, Crowe encounters an armed intruder at Claire’s Boston townhouse. And when he finds Claire’s secret San Francisco pied-à-terre, his questions come to a head. Sleeping in an upstairs bedroom, he finds Claire—her face, her hair, her scars—and as far as he can tell, she’s alive. And Crowe’s back at the start: Who is Claire Gravesend?
An Edgar Award Finalist
Who is Claire Gravesend? So wonders PI Lee Crowe when he finds her dead, in a cocktail dress, on top of a Rolls Royce, in the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco. Claire’s mother, Olivia, is one of the richest people in California. She doesn’t believe the coroner’s ruling of suicide. Olivia hires Crowe, who—having just foiled a federal case against a cartel kingpin—is eager for distraction. But the questions about the Gravesend family pile up fast.
First, Caire’s autopsy reveals peculiar scars that Olivia won’t explain. Then, Crowe encounters an armed intruder at Claire’s Boston townhouse. And when he finds Claire’s secret San Francisco pied-à-terre, his questions come to a head. Sleeping in an upstairs bedroom, he finds Claire—her face, her hair, her scars—and as far as he can tell, she’s alive. And Crowe’s back at the start: Who is Claire Gravesend?
An Edgar Award Finalist
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“Feels like the type of book where you actively need to choose to enjoy it. If I had rated it based off of merit alone and how well it invested me in the narrative I probably only would have given it three stars.”
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“Jonathan Moore is definitely channeling Raymond Chandler at the beginning of this book. Disbarred lawyer turned detective who is happy to bend the rules in his dogged pursuit of the truth. Beautiful corpse of a young woman who may have committed suicide by jumping off a roof - or may have been pushed. Plenty of old money and murky family histories.
Needless to say, I was hooked from the first chapter. A few more chapters in and I thought I had the main plot elements figured out. But after still more chapters I realized I had no idea where this was going.
The writing is first rate. Not a twingy awkward sentence, all fluid and well paced.
But the plot ….As it went along, my enthusiasm waned a bit as it veered away from its deliciously noir beginning into the territory of an early James Bond movie. Not a place where I typically spend much time, but on the other hand, at no point did I want to stop reading.
If you look at that thing on Goodreads, right under the publisher’s summary, where it lists all the genres the book has been shelved on, you’ll see quite a range, including science fiction. That’s not surprising.
As for me, I’m leaving it on my “Crime Fiction - Noir” shelf. The epilogue is nicely Marlow-esque, coming full circle and leaving me ready for another book in this series, should there be one.”
About Jonathan Moore
JONATHAN MOORE lives in Hawaii with his wife and son, and is the author of five books. Before completing law school in New Orleans, he was an English teacher, a bar owner, a raft guide, a counselor at a Texas wilderness camp for juvenile delinquents, and an investigator for a criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C.
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