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!).
New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper takes readers on a terrifying manhunt for a serial killer even the Special Crimes Unit may not be able to stop.
Dani Justice knows all about monsters. They haunt her dreams—and her life. But she never expected to find herself on the trail of a real flesh-and-blood predator so cunning, he’s eluded the best law enforcement could send against him; so deadly, he doesn’t hesitate to kill even a senator’s daughter. Or a cop. Dani doesn’t want to hunt this killer. But she doesn’t have a choice. She alone commands a weapon powerful enough to stop him. And she knows something even Bishop of the FBI’s Special Crimes Unit doesn’t know. Dani knows how the hunt ends. It ends in fire. And blood. And death. What she doesn’t know is who will survive.