num_pages: 288
description: "Cinderella is in the bluebell woods at Poacher's Dell...." The anonymous note means nothing to ancestor detective Natasha Blake. Then one of her clients, an enigmatic old man who had commissioned a family tree of his granddaughter's boyfriend, is shot dead at his isolated farm in the Cotswolds, just as shocking facts about the past are brought to light. Is there a link? Seemingly unconnected yet haunting stories begin to emerge, like slowly developing two young soldiers---one German, one British---playing football; two young women---inseparable friends until a fatal mistake tears them apart; and the eerie echo of a child in an English country house. It is these individual lives that becomes the clues in Natasha's investigation, ghostly fingerprints that she must use to solve a cold-blooded, blue-blooded crime, hidden for generations in the bluebell woods at Poacher's Dell.
language: English
title: Bloodline
titlecomplete: Bloodline (Natasha Blake: Ancestor Detective)
genres: Fiction, British Literature, Historical Fiction, Cozy Mystery, Mystery
ratings_count: 203
series: Natasha Blake Ancestor Detective
awards: awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Mary Higgins Clark Award
publisher: Minotaur Books