Blood Like Mine: The book everyone is devouring this summer. 'Neville might well be Stephen King's rightful heir' (Will Dean)

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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 instalment MARK BILLINGHAM

A clever, brooding narrative that left me feeling the boundaries of possibility had blurred NATALIE CHANDLER

You would do anything to protect your child.
Even if shes a monster . . .

Rebecca Carter and her daughter Monica, nicknamed Moonflower, travel the American West, always on the move, always hiding, always looking behind them, always keeping Moonflower out of sight.
They speak to no one, only interacting with people when its absolutely necessary.

But wherever they go, bodies are left behind.

Special Agent Marc Donner of the FBI has been tracking a killer for the best part of two years. A murderer that strikes once every few weeks. The victims are all men, many disappearing only to be found months later, dumped in forests or rivers or quarries, far from their places of death. All of them with their throats opened, their bodies bled out and their spinal cords severed.

The killer leaves no trace, no clues only a trail of corpses.

After all this time, Donner has gleaned only a handful of facts from the few witnesses and snippets of CCTV footage available. Hes hunting a middle-aged woman who drives a van with blacked-out windows and false plates. Often she poses as a child online to lure in her prey. Its never been enough to track her down though.

Until now.

And so begins a cat-and-mouse game between Donner and his prey, Rebecca and Moonflower. But who is the actual hunter and who is the actual prey For perhaps Moonflower isnt the child that her mother claims she is. Perhaps shes something else and as Donner puts everything on the line to capture them and prove his suspicions right, perhaps he isnt prepared to face what is really out there.

Let the Right One In meets Stephen King in this chilling thriller about a mothers love, a daughters devotion, a mans obsession and the darkness that lives within us all.

PRAISE FOR STUART NEVILLE:

'Stuart Neville writes crime fiction that is edgy, compelling and always deeply humane' MARK BILLINGHAM

'Stuart Neville is a powerhouse of deep, dark emotional fiction.One of Ireland's finest crime writers' STEVE CAVANAGH

'Chilling, compassionate and compelling' VAL McDERMID

'A crime fiction Titan' CHRIS WHITAKER

Author Bio

Stuart Neville's debut novel, The Twelve (published in the USA as The Ghosts of Belfast), won the Mystery/Thriller category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and was picked as one of the top crime novels of 2009 by both the New York Times and the LA Times. He has since published ten more critically acclaimed books, two of which were under the pen name Haylen Beck, and a collection of short stories. He has been shortlisted for several awards, including the MWA Edgar Award for Best Novel, the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger, the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year, the Barry, Macavity, and Dilys awards, and the Irish Book Awards Crime Novel of the Year.