BLOOD RELATIONS

Jonathan Moore's exciting, superbly written new thriller BLOOD RELATIONS introduces a great new character in Lee Crowe, a disbarred California attorney with anger management issues, now turned undercover private investigator extraordinaire either side of the law willing to pay his price.

Equal parts fearless and relentless, Lee digs, taking surreptitious pictures, taping damning conversations, tracking his targets like a laser beam, finding that fatal hidden weak spot and soon enough, witness are changing their stories in court, drug kingpins are walking and rich pin-striped lawyers are cashing in. But the case of Claire Gravesend is quite unlike any job Lee has worked – a beautiful young blonde woman dropped from a seemingly great height to her death on a smashed luxury automobile. When her very wealthy and ruthless mother Olivia hires Lee to find out who killed Claire, his search takes him to the most menacing core of California's upper crust, a class of billionaires with more money than they could spend in an eternity, a dark world of corruption and violence and greed for the unattainable where the blood ties run deep and red.

Jonathan expects to continue with Lee in future novels.

As you know, Jonathan is the author of the acclaimed San Francisco noir trilogy, comprising THE POISON ARTIST, THE DARK ROOM and THE NIGHT MARKET, all published by HMH here and by Orion in the UK.