Product Description

Blood is thicker than water - and far more deadly ! A woman is lured to a remote spot in the Scottish Highlands and strangled almost to the point of death. As she begs for mercy, her tormentor begins to carve her face, before burying her alive. In Edinburgh, unorthodox young lawyer Brodie McLennan becomes tangled up in the case. When it emerges that Brodie was the last person to see the victim and crucial evidence is found at her flat, she must fight to clear her name - and save her own skin. Meanwhile in an asylum in Inverness, a deranged patient writes the name Brodie over and over in her own blood! As another mutilated body is discovered bearing the same ritualistic markings, Brodie is running scared from unknown forces, eager to see blood on her hands! Prepared to be shocked in this dark and gripping thriller, for fans of Ian Rankin and Mo Hayder!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #238972 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-30
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback

Review
Praise for Blood Lines: 'A dark gripping thriller about murder and a fight for justice.' Closer 'Establishes a thrilling crime protagonist with star potential.' Scottish Daily Record

About the Author
Grace Monroe is the pseudonym of Maria Thomson and Linda Watson-Brown. Maria graduated with a law degree in her 20s and soon met her future husband. The couple now have four children. Since finishing her law career she has worked as a hypnotherapist, stage hypnotist and fertility counsellor amongst others. After 10 years as a Politics lecturer, Linda began her journalistic career as a columnist at The Scotsman. She went on to write regularly for the Daily Mail, Sunday Herald and Independent and also started ghostwriting. In 2006, her first ghost-written book, The Step Child, was a Sunday Times bestseller. Maria and Linda met in 2003, became firm friends and decided to write as a team.

Customer Reviews

Not bad, but not great
I bought this book as I read the back and it sounded like my type of book as I love crime books, also it being set in Edinburgh was a bonus as I live nearby and would be able to relate to the places in the book.

I found this book a bit of a chore to start off with as it was not as gripping as other crime/thriller books I have read previously. Also I found the lead character Brodie not very likeable which made it hard for me to feel sympathetic to her situation. After reading over half way it got a bit better and I did actually want to find out what happened in the end.

I wouldn't say it was a bad book but it definately wasn't a book 'I couldn't put down'.

The new queen of Scottish crime
What a book!
I read the first in the series and thoroughly enjoyed it so I decided to buy the new book in the series by Grace Monroe, 'Blood Lines.' It was incredible. Having read many Scottish crime novels I have to say this is up there with the best. I only bought the book yesterday and having started never once did I put it down. The book, like the first, is a non stop thriller however I would say what makes this novel so good is the characters. By the end of this book you feel you know them.
A truly incredible book and a definite must read. The writer's have improved so much that if they improve it this much again for the third novel then Rankin might just be knocked off his perch as king of Scottish crime by the female duo.

a very poor book
Gave up half way through with no further interest in what was I was reading. Boring and messy with no redeeming characters.