Blood Pact
By (Author) Fiona McIntosh
Penguin Random House Australia
Penguin Random House Australia
7th January 2025
Australia
General
Fiction
Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
Paperback
384
Width 154mm, Height 234mm, Spine 27mm
476g
The explosive new thriller in the bestselling international Jack Hawksworth series Detective Superintendent Jack Hawksworth is seconded by counter-terrorism to investigate a spate of domestic events. First it was needles in strawberries, then tampering of lipstick samplers and baby formula. But when toxic mushrooms enter the market system and a death occurs, a wave of terror is set to sweep the country. There are no leads, no DNA, no witnesses, no CCTV footage. Jack and his team must work on instinct to figure out why someone would want to harm innocent victims. Scrutiny of the incidents' geography and cold cases reveals a single overlap that leads them to the death of a child in a London hospital, but little else is adding up. When a bomber threatens the same hospital, it is up to the team to prevent the inevitable bloodshed. The clock is ticking, and no one is safe from the possibility of a tragedy on a catastrophic scale.
Fiona McIntosh is an internationally and million-copy bestselling author of novels for adults and children across several genres. Alongside her highly successful historical fiction titles, for which she has been nominated at the Australian Book Industry Awards for commercial fiction book of the year, her popular Detective Jack Hawksworth series will soon be released across the UK. Several of her historical titles as well as the 'world of Hawksworth' crime novels have been optioned for the screen. Her debut children's picture book, Harry and Gran, will be published in 2025. Fiona roams the world for her research and lives between Adelaide in South Australia and Wiltshire in England.