In Her Blood

Description

Two missing girls, two decades apart. Only one person knows the truth ... Jac Morgan never planned on going back to her hometown. Seven years after the fatal house fire that killed her mother and branded Jac a killer she's back - but for only one reason. Her sister, Charlie, has gone missing. Charlie's the only good thing in Jac's life, and she doesn't believe she would ever run away. Jac is certain the answer to her sister's disappearance is somewhere in the town. Because twenty years ago, another teenage girl went missing. Paige Gilmore, beautiful and talented daughter of eccentric matriarch, Iris Gilmore, disappeared on the annual Gilmore Hotel Open Day. As Jac starts the search for Charlie, she is drawn to the Gilmore Hotel - the haunted house of her childhood, a place that holds its own secrets and mysteries and is still home to the enigmatic Iris and her long-suffering daughter, Lisa. Meanwhile, as Jac desperately hunts for answers to Charlie's disappearance, another Open Day looms, and Jac begins to realise everyone at the hotel has a secret - and that someone is willing to kill to keep the truth from coming out. From Ngaio Marsh Award shortlisted author, Nikki Crutchley, In Her Blood is a compulsively readable dark, twisty and atmospheric thriller, sure to keep you turning the pages until deep into the night. 'This story weaves past and present with unknown places, becoming more unsettling with every page. In Her Blood is a chilling slow burn, sure to grip fans of psychological thrillers by Paula Hawkins and Rose Carlyle.' Books+Publishing 'Moody and atmospheric, a tense and twisting story that crackles off the page' Mercedes Mercier, White Noise

Nikki Crutchley is the author of To the Sea (HarperCollins, 2021). Prior to this, she self-published three police procedurals set in NZ, and was a finalist in the Ngaio Marsh Awards for her first two books. She has been published in Flash Frontier, Mayhem Literary Journal, Flash Fiction Magazine and in Fresh Ink anthology (published by Cloud Ink Press). She was long-listed and regional winner at National Flash Fiction Day in 2016, and at the 2017 National Flash Fiction Day she had two stories short-listed and was regional winner.