A MEASURE OF BLOOD by Kathleen George

Maggie Brown knew her affair with the much younger Nadal Brown was a mistake, and she broke it off but several years later she runs into him, and he is convinced her son Matt is his son.

That mistake is at the heart of this tragedy; Maggie is murdered, her son calls the police and he is moved into the foster care system. But Detective Richard Christie has a better idea; friends of his have been trying to adopt and he thinks the boy would be a good fit for them. The agency agrees, and the confused young boy finds himself in a new home. But Nadal is determined to get his son, and while Christie is working his department hard to find the killer, he also finds the boy’s biological father – a sperm donor.

There are a lot of players here but the story moves along rapidly, and while the child in jeopardy situation is a familiar one, the suspense keeps building as the fate of the boy hangs in the balance. Should appeal to fans of Mary Higgins Clark and Kate White.

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2/14 Stacy Alesi, AKA the BookBitch

A MEASURE OF BLOOD by Kathleen George. MysteriousPress.com/Open Road (January 14, 2014). ISBN 978-1480445604. 400p.

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