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Loading... Blood Memory (2005)by Greg Iles
None. Simply not up to par with his other work. I did not identify or empathize with the main character. (  ) honoliipali | Nov 14, 2012 |  Blood Memory is about a dentist Cat who works for the FBI. When she suddenly starts blacking out at crime scenes she is fired and suddenly forced to take a second look at her childhood. Her father's murder, which happened when she was younger, has always been a faint memory but as she starts having dreams she feels like there is something that she has been missing. Warning this book will cause sleepless nights!!! Absolutely fantastic writing and story line non stop excitement from beginning to end! (  ) jenniebuchanan | Aug 2, 2011 | Another book with a female first person heroine. This is a little less convincing than the previous one. Also deals with child abuse so very difficult subject. But for a thriller well written, and kept me on the edge of my seat. (  ) dgbdgb | Jul 13, 2011 | Stunning thriller, couldn't stop reading it until the last page. The book is quite disturbing, but not in a gratuitous way, definitely a Greg Iles fan now. (  ) emigre | May 13, 2011 | Good plot, although a little far-fetched in places. I'd guessed a few plot lines, but it didn't spoil my reading of the book since there were as many threads that I didn't guess. This is one of those books that will keep you up all night reading since you won't want to put it down. ( ) christinelstanley | Nov 6, 2010 | no reviews | add a review
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0743454154, Paperback)Hailed by Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) for his "utterly consuming" suspense fiction, New York Times bestselling author Greg Iles melds forensic detail with penetrating insight into the heart of a killer in a southern town.
Some memories live deep in the soul, indelible and dangerous, waiting to be resurrected....Forensic expert "Cat" Ferry is suspended from an FBI task force when the world-class odontologist is inexplicably stricken with panic attacks and blackouts while investigating a chain of brutal murders. Returning to her Mississippi hometown, Cat finds herself battling with alcohol, plagued by nightmares, and entangled with a married detective. Then, in her childhood bedroom, some spilled chemicals reveal two bloody footprints...and the trauma of her father's murder years earlier comes flooding back. Facing the secrets of her past, Cat races to connect them to a killer's present-day violence. But what emerges is the frightening possibility that Cat herself has blood on her hands.... (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:30:14 -0500) "Driven by this fragment of her past, Cat attempts a forensic reconstruction of the decades-old crime, even as developments in New Orleans task force pull her back into the case she left behind. Plagued by troubling nightmares, Cat pieces together the horrifying events she has been shielded from all her life. Soon, both she and the FBI realize that the murders occurring now in New Orleans are intimately bound up with Cat's family and her past."--BOOK JACKET. "Suspended from the FBI task force, plagued by nightmares, and at odds with her married lover - a homicide detective - Cat finally reaches her breaking point. In a desperate effort to regain control over a life spiraling out of control, Cat retreats to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi. But her family's secluded antebellum estate provides no sanctuary." "When some of Cat's forensic chemicals are spilled in her childhood bedroom, two bloody footprints are revealed. This sight shocks her more than any corpse she has seen in her career. Cat's father was murdered when she was eight years old, but she always believed the crime occurred in the garden outside their home. The bloody footprints suggest otherwise." "Catherine "Cat" Ferry is a forensic odontologist, a specialist in bite marks and the clues they provide. But while Cat's colleagues know her as a world-class scientist, she secretly attempts to manage her fragile psyche with alcohol, delving into the minds of rapists and murderers yet never allowing her own frightening past to creep into the foreground." "Cat's latest case involves a disturbing murder in New Orleans. Banishing her personal demons, she focuses on the potential killer, until one morning she's paralyzed by a panic attack at a grisly murder scene. Praying the attack is a onetime event, she continues her job as a consultant to the New Orleans Police Department, but when another victim dies in the same shocking way - raising fears that a serial killer is at large - Cat blacks out over the victim's mutilated corpse."… (more) |
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