Blood Like Ours

You would do anything for your family . . . even if they are monsters.

Rebecca Carter is back from the dead. Driven by two desperate urges – to find her daughter, and to sate her hunger – she seeks out the only person who can help her: the Nurse. But when she arrives she finds him badly injured, and with warnings of a new danger hot on her tail.   

Alone in the wild, Monica Carter survives on whatever small prey she can hunt down. But she needs more. One night, lost and terrified, she catches the maddening scent of human blood. A young man calls out to her as Moonflower, and tells her to come with him and his younger brother. They will look after her. Keep her safe.  

Though Willard and Henderson Davis are not what they seem. They know all about dying and disappearing – after all, it’s been more than three decades since they did the same. As they travel east, Moonflower's hope for a new family soon turns to terror when she finds she is not their guest, but their prisoner – the brothers chose to be what they are, relishing the slaughter, and her death and rebirth fifteen years ago have deep significance for them.

But they aren’t alone on the road. FBI agent Sarah McGrath, haunted by the death of her partner, Marc Donner, moments after he killed Rebecca, is beginning to wonder if he was right about the Carters all along. When a fresh trail of bodies emerges she is increasingly convinced of one thing.  

If following that trail means trouble, then so be it. 

PRAISE FOR BLOOD LIKE MINE:

‘Stuart Neville at his considerable best . . . This is a book you will not forget in a hurry and which will leave you hungry for the next instalment’ Mark Billingham
'Thrilling, heartbreaking, and completely compelling. My heart was in my throat the whole time' Alex North
'Bravo Stuart Neville! Utterly brilliant’ Liz Nugent
‘Stuart Neville at his very, very best – this book grabs your heart and doesn't let go’ Ruth Ware
‘Blood Like Mine is one of those books that once you read the first few pages, you simply cannot put it back down’ Steve Cavanagh
‘What a book! Exciting, propulsive and vivid. A thriller with real bite’ Mark Edwards
'Beautiful and dark as all hell . . . Original, terrifying and horrifically tense. This book is your next obsession (and Neville might well be Stephen King's rightful heir)' Will Dean

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 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, the Barry, Macavity, and Dilys awards, and the Irish Book Awards Crime Novel of the Year.

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