Blood Memory: A Novel

Greg Iles

Feb 2005 · Sold by Simon and Schuster

About this ebook

From the author of the New York Times bestelling Natchez Burning Trilogy, and hailed by Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) for his "utterly consuming" suspense fiction, Greg Iles melds forensic detail with penetrating insight into the heart of a killer in a southern town.

Some memories live deep in the soul, indelible and dangerous, waiting to be resurrected...

Forensic expert "Cat" Ferry is suspended from an FBI task force when the world-class odontologist is inexplicably stricken with panic attacks and blackouts while investigating a chain of brutal murders. Returning to her Mississippi hometown, Cat finds herself battling with alcohol, plagued by nightmares, and entangled with a married detective. Then, in her childhood bedroom, some spilled chemicals reveal two bloody footprints...and the trauma of her father's murder years earlier comes flooding back. Facing the secrets of her past, Cat races to connect them to a killer's present-day violence. But what emerges is the frightening possibility that Cat herself has blood on her hands...

Ratings and reviews

Not to minimize the seriousness of the subject matter, this is not a world I could enjoy escaping into. I read fiction to be entertained and this novel is too disturbing to be entertaining. It does make me wonder about some of the women I've known.......

This was my very first Greg Iles book. I couldn't put it down!! It's maybe an 600 page book that I literally read in two days. Very exciting, fantastically written!

This was the first Greg Iles novel I read and it was absolutely enthralling. Long yes, but definitely suspenseful and creepy. The Mississippi settings he uses (his home area) are both romantic and dark at the same time. I had a hard time putting this one down. I would recommend this over all of his others to those who have never read Greg Iles.

About the author

Greg Iles was born in 1960 in Germany, where his father ran the US Embassy medical clinic during the height of the Cold War. After graduating from the University of Mississippi in 1983, he performed for several years with the rock band Frankly Scarlet and is a member of the lit-rock group The Rock Bottom Remainders. He is the author of sixteen New York Times bestselling novels and known for his Penn Cage series, the latest of which is Southern Man. He lives in Natchez, Mississippi.