Blood atonement
By: Dan Waddell.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9780312378912
Subjects: Police -- England -- London -- Fiction; Murder -- Investigation -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
Description: Detective Chief Inspector Grant Foster is called to a homicide at the home of a single mother in Queens Park, London. Her throat has been cut from ear to ear and her body dumped in the garden. Her daughter and only child, Naomi, who has just turned fourteen this day, is missing. As the hours tick by, the feeling grows among Foster's colleagues that this mis most likely becoming a double-murder inquiry. With nothing in the present to indicate a motive, Foster decides to delve into the woman's past, only to find out she doesn't have one. Not sure where else to turn for information, he calls on genealogist, Nigel Barnes for help.