"The entire SCU team is under attack by unknown forces in this chilling thriller."
Blood Ties
By: Kay Hooper
Genres: Thriller Psychological | Paranormal - Supernatural | Thriller Police Procedural
Posted: January 16, 2010
Hollis has been learning to deal with amazing abilities that manifest at a rate unseen by anyone on Bishop's team. When she is teamed with telepath Reese DeMarco, they become a force to be reckoned with. Reese's desire to use his skills to protect Hollis has potentially devastating repercussions when SCU member Diana Brisco is taken out by a sniper and Hollis is unable to use her skills to help heal the gravely wounded woman. While trapped in the eerie "gray time," that place between life and death where she is able to communicate with spirits, Diana learns there is an evil force from the past seeking to use certain SCU team member's to return to the world of the living. While Diana and Hollis work in the "gray time," Bishop puts into play a cat-and-mouse game to stop a madman before he loses someone more important to him that his own life.
Kay Hooper's 12th journey into the world of the FBI's Special Crimes Unit in BLOOD TIES is a tautly written adventure. The entire SCU team is involved in the latest investigation, and the entire team is under attack by unknown forces. The reader is kept in the dark with the characters, and the final resolution and battle are both shocking and devastating. I love the SCU adventures, and BLOOD TIES is one of the best in the series. In BLOOD TIES, the reader is given footnotes to tell the previous story each character was involved in, and I found that beneficial. More than any of the previous stories, I would recommend knowledge of earlier stories in the series, particularly CHILL OF FEAR (which scared me silly!).
Book Summary
The elite Special Crimes Unit, the FBI’s most controversial and effective team, is a group of mavericks and misfits trained to use their unique psychic abilities to hunt the worst monsters imaginable – human ones. Led by the enigmatic Noah Bishop, the SCU team has earned a reputation for pitting their skills and cunning against killers that other cops fear. But this time Bishop and his agents face an enemy who has them in his sights, a trained sniper with a deadly plan — and more than one ace up his sleeve.
It starts with an unspeakable series of grisly murders across three states, a trail of blood leading, finally, to the small Tennessee town of Serenade. There, two more brutal murders lure the SCU into what may be the ultimate trap.
One of the first investigators on the scene, Special Agent Hollis Templeton is willing to push herself as hard and as far as necessary. Risking more than her life to help and protect her fellow SCU members, Hollis is coping with psychic abilities that are evolving in unprecedented ways, an attraction to the most complex man she’s ever known, and a serial murder investigation that has just turned very, very personal.
In her time with the SCU, Hollis has shown an uncanny ability to survive even the most deadly attacks. But what she doesn’t count on is that this killer intends to destroy the team from within.
The clock is ticking. The body count is rising. And as Bishop and his agents race to uncover the identity of their true enemy, not even their special senses can warn them just how bloody, and how terrifyingly close, the truth will be.
by: Kay Hooper
Bantam
February 1, 2010
On Sale: January 26, 2010
Featuring: Hollis Templeton; Noah Bishop
304 pages
ISBN: 0553804863
EAN: 9780553804867
Kindle: B0035J5E4U
Hardcover / e-Book