* Indie Next List Pick * Indie Bestseller *
Sixteen bloodless bodies. Two teenagers. One impossible explanation.
In this edge-of-your-seat mystery from #1 New York Times bestselling
author Kendare Blake, the truth is as hard to believe as it is to
find.
Summer 1958. A gruesome killer plagues the Midwest, leaving behind a
trail of bodies completely drained of blood.
Michael Jensen, an aspiring journalist whose father happens to be the
town sheriff, never imagined that the Bloodless Murders would come to
his backyard. Not until the night the Carlson family was found murdered
in their home. Marie Catherine Hale, a diminutive fifteen-year-old, was
discovered at the scene--covered in blood. She is the sole suspect in
custody.
Michael didn't think that he would be part of the investigation, but he
is pulled in when Marie decides that he is the only one she will confess
to. As Marie recounts her version of the story, it falls to Michael to
find the truth: What really happened the night that the Carlsons were
killed? And how did one girl wind up in the middle of all these bodies?