Crime & Mystery
The premise of In the Blood is doing a lot of work for me: one act of heroism, then suddenly the attention turns poisonous. That sort of setup can be very sharp, if it stays focused.
Crime thrillers live or die on whether the pressure keeps tightening or just gets noisier. This one sounds like it could go either way, which is not a complaint, just a reasonable amount of caution. Still interested.
Crime thrillers live or die on whether the pressure keeps tightening or just gets noisier. This one sounds like it could go either way, which is not a complaint, just a reasonable amount of caution. Still interested.
That “heroism creates the problem” setup can be brilliant when the book keeps the fallout personal instead of turning into generic chase-thriller noise. I’m more interested in the unwanted attention side of it than the dead bodies, frankly. The past-revelations angle could either sharpen everything or start feeling like the novel is emptying its pockets just to keep momentum.