The first thing you will notice is that there are several characters that would like the disappearance of a young girl to remain a closed issue. A young man was found guilty. There has never been a body, nor a motive for that matter. Two characters in particular would like this not to be reinvestigated. And, that does not include the real murderer.
That’s just Sandra Brown setting the stage for a whirlwind crime story. Lots of finger pointing and yet there is a sense that there’s a crucial element that’s missing. Add to all that the regrets of a local police officer. Interest in a television documentary producer that has an award-worthy product waiting to air.
John a local police officer hasn’t been able to move past his inability to solve a missing girl’s case that had ultimately led a young man to suicide. The powers that be in the department were anxious to close the case. And to John that created a tragic outcome for not only a young woman, but her mother and a good friend.
Beth is determined to get an interview with the officer who handled the case. John has never given an interview about what the department considered a cold case. That sets them at odds with their first meeting.
Sandra Brown carefully plots out what information is released. It is important to follow along with John and Beth as they reluctantly uncover an important fact. This prolific writer knows her way around a crime scene. And BLOOD MOON smoothly highlights what patient investigators meticulously uncover. Several disreputable characters round up the cast in BLOOD MOON. You can’t gloss over the creep factor in this story. Sandra Brown makes sure to identify all the characters that have a role in this unresolved crime. As in all crime novels penned by this amazing author, the guilty party or parties are uncovered. There are never any insignificant characters mentioned as an aside by Sandra Brown and that has never been more obvious than in BLOOD MOON. A warning, BLOOD MOON is fast-paced and addicting.
#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown returns with another gripping thriller where an embittered detective and an ambitious TV show producer are in a race against the clock to prevent another young woman from disappearing before the next blood moon. Detective John Bowie is one misstep away from being fired from the Auclair Police Department in coastal Louisiana. Recently divorced and slightly heavy-handed with his liquor, Bowie does all that he can to cope with the actions taken (or not taken) during the investigation of Crissy Mellin, a teenage girl who disappeared more than three years prior. But now, Crisis Point, a long-running true crime television series, is soon to air an episode documenting the unsolved Mellin case. Bowie has been instructed by his unscrupulous boss to keep to himself his grievances and criticisms over the mishandling of the investigation. Beth Collins, a senior producer on Crisis Point, knows what classifies as a great story and when there’s something more to be told. After working on the show for seven years researching, fact-checking, and editing dozens of episodes, Collins is convinced that Crissy Mellin’s disappearance was not an isolated incident. A string of disappearances of teenage girls in nearby areas has only one thing in common: They took place on the night of a blood moon. In a last-ditch effort to find out the truth, Beth leaves New York City for Louisiana to enlist Detective Bowie in helping her figure out what happened to Crissy and find the true culprit before he acts on the next blood moon—in four days’ time. At the risk of their careers, credibility, and very lives, Bowie and Collins band together to identify and capture a canny perpetrator, while fighting an irresistible spark between them that threatens to upend everything.
No excerpt available.
© 2003-2026