Blood Like Mine

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A New York Times Best Horror Fiction of the Year Selection . Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Horror . A Parade Best Horror Books of the Year Selection "A gruesome, action-packed monster novel about a mother and daughter with a terrible secret, on the run from an obsessed and crumbling detective . . . Terrific." -The New York Times Book Review In Stuart Neville's horror debut, a mother's undying love and a daughter's insatiable hunger carve a bloody trail across the highways of the Southwest. A New York Times Best Horror Fiction of the Year Selection . Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for Horror . A Parade Best Horror Books of the Year Selection "A gruesome, action-packed monster novel about a mother and daughter with a terrible secret, on the run from an obsessed and crumbling detective . . . Terrific." -The New York Times Book Review In Stuart Neville's horror debut, a mother's undying love and a daughter's insatiable hunger carve a bloody trail across the highways of the Southwest. On a snowy December night, single mother Rebecca Carter drives her van into a snowbank to avoid hitting an elk on a desolate mountain highway. She is at the end of her rope, out of money and food. Still, she refuses help from a man in a pickup truck-Rebecca's adolescent daughter, Moonflower, is on the run from a grisly secret, and the last thing they can afford is to be remembered by anyone they meet. Meanwhile, Special Agent Marc Donner of the FBI has spent the better part of two years hunting down a gruesome serial killer who drains victims of blood before severing their spinal cords, leaving a trail of bodies throughout the country. As Agent Donner's investigation brings him closer and closer to where Rebecca and Moonflower are hiding out, in the foothills of Colorado, the life that Rebecca has fought so hard to hold together for her daughter becomes increasingly imperiled. In this deadly, high-stakes game of cat and mouse, nobody is safe and nothing is certain-not even the line between predator and prey.

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Praise for Blood Like Mine

New York Times Best Horror Fiction of 2024
Nominated for a Goodreads Choice Award for Horror
Parades Best Horror Books of 2024
B&N Reads Best Horror Books of 2024
Goodreads Biggest Horror Reads of Summer
Goodreads Readers Most Anticipated Summer Books
Deadly Pleasures Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2024

A gruesome, action-packed monster novel about a mother and daughter with a terrible secret, on the run from an obsessed and crumbling detective. But at its tender core, the book is actually about family and love. This is a terrific novel that takes the fast pace and tension of crime fiction and injects it with the explosiveness of a great vampire story.
Gabino Iglesias, The New York Times Book Review

Stuart Neville at his very, very bestthis book grabs your heart and doesn't let go.
Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10

Stephen King-esque horror . . . Blood Like Mine hinges not on the violence that drives it, but on the nature of mother-daughter relationships and the question of whether a bond so strong and animal is always bound for destruction . . . An intricate tapestry of twists, turns, and razor-sharp plotting.
Starburst Magazine

A desperate mother and daughter on the run. An FBI agent closing in on his target. A ruthless monster on the loose. Youll be reading this one from behind your fingers.
B&N Reads, Most Anticipated Books August 2024

Mesmerising . . . Surely indebted to Stephen King for the deftness with which it embeds the gothic in everyday Americana, Blood Like Mine gains in power as it advances towards a denouement that shows Marc and Rebecca as doppelgngers: both isolated, both self-annihilated by destructive obsessions they originally saw as protecting other people.
The Times (UK)

A modern and empathetic take on an ancient trope . . . Blood Like Mine is beautifully constructed and it moves at an electric pace. As Donner begins to close in on the pair the tension is raised to nerve-shredding levels, and it all builds to a terrific climax.
The Big Issue

A stunningly original and powerful marriage of thriller and Stephen King-like horror.
Irish Independent

A terrifically entertaining book with the same tense pacing and persuasive characters of his earlier Belfast novels.
The Irish Times

Enjoyably character-driven storytelling, which powers along at a pleasingly rapid, page-turning clip.
The Irish News

Gutwrenching . . . Instils a sense of dread. You have been warned.
Irish Examiner

This is not the book you think it is . . . For fans of a twisty thriller horror novel.
WAMCs The Roundtable

Blood Like Mine is a violent, action-packed thriller that demands a sequel.
SFRevu

Superbly written . . . Generate[s] great suspense but also goes beyond simply heightening tension so that readers' sympathies are engaged while our moral sensibilities are also addressed.
Reviewing the Evidence

Stuart Neville has wrung the changes on a well-used set up in a truly original way . . . A powerful story about the uncomfortably close relationship between love and obsession . . . Anyone looking for an intelligent thriller with difficult questions and painfully realistic relationships at its heart, needs to put this book on their reading list.
SHOTS Crime & Thriller EZine

Blood Like Mine places a mother in a horrifying situation with no good options . . . Pulse-pounding dark writing drives this horror/thriller novel that poses the question of how far would you go for someone you love.
Fresh Fiction

An action-packed thriller, the midway 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, author of Strange Sally Diamond

I absolutely loved Blood Like Mine . . . Thrilling, heartbreaking, and completely compelling. My heart was in my throat the whole time.
Alex North, author of The Whisper Man

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, author of The Last Thing to Burn

Wow, just WOW. Ive waited a long time for a crime novel to do something different, to keep me guessing, to blow me awaythis is that book . . . I lived and breathed every second and flew through the pagesdesperate 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, author of The Guilty Couple

A heart-pounding fusion of horror and crime thriller, Blood Like Mine redefines the roles of cat and mouse while packing punches both visceral and emotional. This propulsive, blood-spattered pursuit across the American Southwest will leave readers horrified and hungry for more.
Luke Dumas, USA Today bestselling author of The Paleontologist and A History of Fear

This is quite simply the best crime novel Ive read this year. A stunning work of fiction that seized me by the throat from the first page to the last. I wont stop thinking about this one for some time.
Cass Green, author of In a Cottage in a Wood

Blood Like Mine is 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 installment.
Mark Billingham, author of the Tom Thorne novels

What a book! Exciting, propulsive, and vivid. A thriller with real bite.
Mark Edwards, author of Keep Her Secret

At its core, Blood Like Mine is the story of a mother's unconditional love for her daughter, and that gives everything that happensthe growing horror, the murders, the frantic desperationan 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, author of Eden

A visceral, cinematic masterpiece. Silence of the Lambs filtered through the lens of prime Stephen King. You wont read a more gut-wrenching novel this year.
Ed James, author of the DI Simon Fenchurch novels

I haven't stopped thinking about this since I devoured it. A tense, dark thriller that combines jaw-dropping horror with gut-punching tenderness, this is a book that will get under your skin and stay there forever.
S. J. I. Holliday, author of Violet

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 throatthis is a story that you won't forget.
Sam Blake, author of Little Bones

Riveting . . . Horror fans will be entranced.
Booklist, Starred Review

Neville gives the serial killer thriller a novel spin in this riveting splice of crime and weird fiction . . . Sustain[s] breathless suspense as the story builds to its wild and cinematic finale. This is a satisfying exercise in high-voltage horror.
Publishers Weekly

Crackling energy . . . [For] fans of monster-themed books like Liz Kerins Nights Edge series.
Library Journal

Praise for Stuart Neville

Noir, noir, noireverybody wants to write noir fiction. But most self-anointed 'noir' narratives just dont hack it. Theyre dark and dreary, to be sure; but a true noir mystery must also have a black heart. This kind of spiritual despair comes naturally to Stuart Neville, whose Belfast crime novels bleed.
The New York Times Book Review

Tightly wound, emotionally resonant . . . Displays an acute understanding of the true state of Northern Ireland, still under the thumb of decades of violence.
Los Angeles Times

The current master of neo-noir detective fiction.
The Boston Globe

The dread in this novel is palpable from the first pages until the heartbreaking final ones. It's Neville's best yet.
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

A great, brawling ache of a novel . . . filled with both prickling suspense and fiercely wrought emotion.
Megan Abbott

In the world of modern crime fiction, Stuart Neville is a supernova.
Dennis Lehane

Chilling, compassionate and compelling, Stuart Neville takes us straight to the dark heart of rural Ireland.
Val McDermid

A brilliant, atmospheric novel from Stuart Neville that plays with chronology and the idea that evil can linger in the dark places. Neville writes with care and empathy and his characters will

Author Bio

Stuart Neville, the "king of Belfast noir" (The Guardian), is the author of nine novels, including The Ghosts of Belfast, The House of Ashes, and Ratlines, as well as numerous short stories. He has won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and been shortlisted for the Edgar, Macavity, Dilys, Barry, and Anthony Awards and the CWA Steel Dagger. He lives near Belfast.