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The Blood Detective - Dan Waddell

Description: ISBN 0141025654 / Author: Dan Waddell / Genre: Crime / Thriller / As dawn breaks over London, the body of a young man is discovered in a ... more

The Blood Detective - Dan Waddell ... windswept Notting Hill churchyard. The killer has left Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster and his team a grisly, cryptic clue...However, it's not until the clue is handed to Nigel Barnes, a specialist in compiling family trees, that the full message becomes spine-chillingly clear. For, it leads Barnes back more than one hundred years - to the victim of a demented Victorian serial killer...When a second body is discovered Foster needs Barnes's skills more than ever. Because the murderer's clues appear to run along the tangled bloodlines that lie between 1879 and now. And if Barnes is right about his blood-history, the killing spree has only just begun...From the author of the bestselling "Who Do You Think You Are?" comes a haunting crime novel of blood-stained family histories and gruesome secrets.

Newest Review: ... to help his police colleagues; so much so that it has given me the extra spur I needed to get on with my own research. As ... more

... can perhaps be expected from someone with an interest in genealogy, Waddell has done a good job in developing the main characters. I particularly liked Nigel Barnes, who is described as being a bit of a geek, more interested in the past than the present, but who is nevertheless kind and very likeable. He is a genealogist by trade and spends vast amounts of time on his own, yet a failed romance is hinted at, as well as a potential relationship with DS Jenkins. Perhaps because he is a detective of a slightly different so...more

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The Blood Detective - Dan Waddell: The past is never completely buried (848 words)
by - written on 05/11/08 (Very useful, 149 readings)
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When DCI Grant Foster finds a series of numbers and letters carved onto a victim's skin, he is perplexed to say the least. Then his sidekick, DS Heather Jenkins recognises the series as potentially the index number for a birth or death certificate and calls in a genealogist, Nigel Barnes to help them follow it up. Sure enough the number leads them back to 1879 and a series of murders. Back in the present day, more murders are happening along the same lines. But what is the present day murderer trying to tell them? Do they have enough information at their fingertips to stop him before more people end up dead? Having watched and enjoyed the TV series Who Do You ... Read the complete review