Noah Bishop and his Special Crimes Unit team are under
attack and all indicators point to someone on the inside.
The team's investigation of a series of horrifying murders
leads them to the small town of Serenade, Tennessee. Two
more murders and a sniper's attempt on agent Hollis
Templeton pits the team against their most deadly enemy to
date.
Hollis has been learning to deal with amazing abilities
that manifest at a rate unseen by anyone on Bishop's team.
When she is teamed with telepath Reese DeMarco, they become
a force to be reckoned with. Reese's desire to use his
skills to protect Hollis has potentially devastating
repercussions when SCU member Diana Brisco is taken out by
a sniper and Hollis is unable to use her skills to help
heal the gravely wounded woman. While trapped in the
eerie "gray time," that place between life and death where
she is able to communicate with spirits, Diana learns there
is an evil force from the past seeking to use certain SCU
team member's to return to the world of the living. While
Diana and Hollis work in the "gray time," Bishop puts into
play a cat-and-mouse game to stop a madman before he loses
someone more important to him that his own life.
Kay Hooper's 12th journey into the world of the
FBI's Special Crimes Unit in BLOOD TIES is a tautly written
adventure. The entire SCU team is involved in the latest
investigation, and the entire team is under attack by
unknown forces. The reader is kept in the dark with the
characters, and the final resolution and battle are both
shocking and devastating. I love the SCU adventures, and
BLOOD TIES is one of the best in the series. In BLOOD TIES,
the reader is given footnotes to tell the previous story
each character was involved in, and I found that
beneficial. More than any of the previous stories, I would
recommend knowledge of earlier stories in the series,
particularly CHILL OF FEAR (which scared me silly!).
The elite Special Crimes Unit, the FBI’s most controversial
and effective team, is a group of mavericks and misfits
trained to use their unique psychic abilities to hunt the
worst monsters imaginable – human ones. Led by the
enigmatic Noah Bishop, the SCU team has earned a reputation
for pitting their skills and cunning against killers that
other cops fear. But this time Bishop and his agents face
an enemy who has them in his sights, a trained sniper with
a deadly plan — and more than one ace up his sleeve.
It starts with an unspeakable series of grisly murders
across three states, a trail of blood leading, finally, to
the small Tennessee town of Serenade. There, two more
brutal murders lure the SCU into what may be the ultimate
trap.
One of the first investigators on the scene, Special Agent
Hollis Templeton is willing to push herself as hard and as
far as necessary. Risking more than her life to help and
protect her fellow SCU members, Hollis is coping with
psychic abilities that are evolving in unprecedented ways,
an attraction to the most complex man she’s ever known, and
a serial murder investigation that has just turned very,
very personal.
In her time with the SCU, Hollis has shown an uncanny
ability to survive even the most deadly attacks. But what
she doesn’t count on is that this killer intends to destroy
the team from within.
The clock is ticking. The body count is rising. And as
Bishop and his agents race to uncover the identity of their
true enemy, not even their special senses can warn them
just how bloody, and how terrifyingly close, the truth will
be.
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