Summary
Two missing girls, two decades apart. Only one person knows the truth …
Jac Morgan never planned on going back to her hometown. Seven years after the fatal house fire that killed her mother and branded Jac a killer she’s back - but for only one reason. Her sister, Charlie, has gone missing. Charlie’s the only good thing in Jac’s life, and she doesn’t believe she would ever run away. Jac is certain the answer to her sister’s disappearance is somewhere in the town.
Because twent…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781460760444 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1460760441 |
| Author: | Nikki Crutchley |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Imprint: | HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 302 |
| Release Date: | 30 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 377g |
| Dimensions: | 22mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
It’s been a long time since Jac Morgan was in her New Zealand hometown of Everly. She needed to be far away from her past and all the rumours about her involvement in the housefire that killed her mother. Now, though, Jac’s younger sister Charlie is missing, and nobody in town cares enough about the Morgans to do anything about it. As Jac finds a job cleaning up Everly’s slowly decaying Hotel Gilmore-the site of another disappearance decades earlier-she begins to suspect there’s more to the building’s history than anyone is willing to admit. From Jac’s hunt for her sister and Charlie’s increasing horror as she sits trapped by an unknown assailant, to the tale of unloved daughter and hotel heir Lisa Gilmore 21 years earlier, this story weaves past and present with unknown places, becoming more unsettling with every page. The halls, rooms and secret doors of Hotel Gilmore are thick with dust and years of grim history, which makes for a disquieting setting. Jac is a flawed character-she expects nothing from anybody, including herself, and gets exactly that-but she is determined to find the sister whose disappearance everyone is dismissing. In Her Blood is a chilling slow burn, sure to grip fans of psychological thrillers by Paula Hawkins and Rose Carlyle. Fiona Hardy is a children’s author and a bookseller at Readings.
Nikki Crutchley
Nikki Crutchley is the author of To the Sea (HarperCollins, 2021). Prior to this, she self-published three police procedurals set in NZ, and was a finalist in the Ngaio Marsh Awards for her first two books. She has been published in Flash Frontier, Mayhem Literary Journal, Flash Fiction Magazine and in Fresh Ink anthology (published by Cloud Ink Press). She was long-listed and regional winner at National Flash Fiction Day in 2016, and at the 2017 National Flash Fiction Day she had two stories short-listed and was regional winner.
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