Blood will tell A novel

Heather Chavez

Book - 2022

"From the author of the acclaimed debut No Bad Deed, a twisty novel about the bond between two sisters--and the crimes one covers up to protect the other."--

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Subjects
Genres
Detective and mystery fiction
Thrillers (Fiction)
Novels
Published
New York, NY : William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers [2022]
Language
English
Main Author
Heather Chavez (author)
Edition
First edition
Physical Description
387 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN
9780062936202
9780062936219
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Review by Publisher's Weekly Review

Middle school teacher Frankie Barrera, in small-town California, would do almost anything to protect her fiercely independent, impulsive younger sister, Izzy, creating an increasingly dysfunctional dynamic that puts them both in grave danger in this deeply felt if flawed sophomore effort from Chavez (No Bad Deed). Out of the blue, Frankie sees a description of her car, a vehicle to which Izzy is the only other person with access, on an Amber Alert concerning the kidnapping of a 17-year-old girl. She stonewalls police inquiries, then has little more success herself questioning Izzy. But Frankie starts to fear that this incident might somehow be related to the night five years earlier when she rescued a drunk, distraught Izzy, then 17, who had just crashed their mother's car after a party near a ghost town from which another teenage girl never returned. As Frankie scrambles to investigate, extended flashbacks fill in pieces of that fateful evening. While some plot twists are unconvincing, the author paints a moving portrait of sisters stumbling toward an adult relationship, perpetually driving one another crazy, but also loving each other deeply. Psychological thriller fans will find much to enjoy. (Apr.)

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Review by Library Journal Review

Having launched her career with the rave-reviewed No Bad Deed, Chavez returns with a tale of two sisters: schoolteacher and single mom Frankie Barrera and wild younger sister Izzy, whom Frankie is perpetually rescuing from scrapes. This time, when the police tell Frankie that a truck that looks like hers has been used in an abduction, with Izzy the only other person who has the keys, Frankie must decide how far she can push the understanding big-sister act. With a 50,000-copy first printing.

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