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The Blood Detective

By: Dan Waddell
Narrated by: Colin Mace
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 As dawn breaks over London, the body of a young man is discovered in a 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 the present day. If Barnes is right about his blood-history, the killing spree has only just begun...

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Combining geneology with two series of murders - both modern and nineteenth century, the story was fascinating from beginning to end. There is some history thrown in with the story, wich is revealed in an interesting manner by Nigel Barnes, a geneologist enlisted to help the police tie in the clues from the new murders to those which had occurred over a hundred years ago, and you can't help but learn a little, even if history isn't your first love. The main characters, in particular a detective named Grant Foster and Nigel, the geneologist, both have their own secret pasts. They are not perfect heroes, Detective Foster seems a little cold and grumpy at first, while Barnes comes across as a little insecure, and yet you understand and like them both, even more as the story progresses. As the clues start to come together, you feel the excitement of the characters as they are able to gradually discover the links between the old murders and the modern day ones. The peripheral characters have their own purposes but for some of them, you don't always understand their parts of the story until it plays out towards the end.
Besides an interesting and original story, the narrator was brilliant. I found it easy to know which character was which in the dialogues, the differences and accents were never grating or overdone.
I can't wait for the second installment in this new detective series and I sincerely hope that the same narrator will be used again.

Riveting and Original

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Not very compelling. I had a hard time continuing out of sheer boredom. The narrator was very good though.

Ok

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I'm afraid I have to disagree with one of the earlier reviews that called this book disgusting. This is a contemporary murder mystery and is no more gory or violent than any other contemporary murder mystery. Honesty, the reviewer must read nothing but Agatha Christie!

I found this an exceedingly entertaining mystery. There are two narrative threads: one set in the present day and one set during the Victorian era - the threads are nicely and satisfyingly tied up by the charming genealogist amateur detective in concert with some well-characterized police detectives. The pacing is excellent, the plot is well turned, and the ideas very fresh.

For anyone who enjoys a good contemporary murder mystery, with roots in the past, you'll love this. For people who prefer 'cosy' mysteries with no realism, perhaps you better stick to earlier writers. Fiction is fiction and this is excellent fiction. The reader is very well suited to the task.

Excellent

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If you like detective/thriller books and you happen to have an intestest in geneology then you may enjoy this book as much as I did.
As the title "blood detectives" suggests it is quite dark and gory at times, it is after all about a serial killer. However, it also takes one into the compulsive world of family history, census records, old archives, dusty newspapers, historic London streets and the thrill of the chase.................highly recommended!

Gripping Detective novel

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i really enjoyed this book and feel fortunate that i came across it "by accident." i liked the characters. the role of the geneologist was a nice change from the omnicient computer expert as researcher. the author kept the story moving at a relentless pace.

engrossing story

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Combining geneology with two series of murders - both modern and nineteenth century, the story was fascinating from beginning to end. There is some history thrown in with the story, wich is revealed in an interesting manner by Nigel Barnes, a geneologist enlisted to help the police tie in the clues from the new murders to those which had occurred over a hundred years ago, and you can't help but learn a little, even if history isn't your first love. The main characters, in particular a detective named Grant Foster and Nigel, the geneologist, both have their own secret pasts. They are not perfect heroes, Detective Foster seems a little cold and grumpy at first, while Barnes comes across as a little insecure, and yet you understand and like them both, even more as the story progresses. As the clues start to come together, you feel the excitement of the characters as they are able to gradually discover the links between the old murders and the modern day ones. The peripheral characters have their own purposes but for some of them, you don't always understand their parts of the story until it plays out towards the end.
Besides an interesting and original story, the narrator was brilliant. I found it easy to know which character was which in the dialogues, the differences and accents were never grating or overdone.
I can't wait for the second installment in this new detective series and I sincerely hope that the same narrator will be used again.

Riveting and Original

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A bit more gruesome than I like but with an intriguing premise. It was really refreshing to see the research portrayed so realistically. I'll take a break after this but will definitely read another.

Gruesome but still a good read.

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The violence and gore in this book was exhausting and disgusting.

Advertised as a book based on genealogy, it provided some of that, interesting in itself, and then followed by assault after assault of gratuitous violence.. mainly against women of course.

As a trauma nurse, I always wonder at a culture that equates violence with entertainment.

Disgusting

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