In her blood

"Jac Morgan never planned on going back to her hometown. Seven years after the fatal house fire that killed her mother and branded Jac a killer she's back - but for only one reason. Her sister, Charlie, has gone missing. Charlie's the only good thing in Jac's life, and she doesn't believe she would ever run away. Jac is certain the answer to her sister's disappearance is somewhere in the town. Because twenty years ago, another teenage girl went missing. Paige Gilmore, beautiful and talented daughter of eccentric matriarch, Iris Gilmore, disappeared on the annual Gilmore Hotel Open Day. As Jac starts the search for Charlie, she is drawn to the Gilmore Hotel - the haunted house of her childhood, a place that holds its own secrets and mysteries and is still home to the enigmatic Iris and her long-suffering daughter, Lisa. Meanwhile, as Jac desperately hunts for answers to Charlie's disappearance, another Open Day looms, and Jac begins to realise everyone at the hotel has a secret - and that someone is willing to kill to keep the truth from coming out"--Back cover.

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Two missing girls, two decades apart. Only one person knows the truth ...

Jac Morgan never planned on going back to her hometown. Seven years after the fatal house fire that killed her mother and branded Jac a killer she's back - but for only one reason. Her sister, Charlie, has gone missing. Charlie's the only good thing in Jac's life, and she doesn't believe she would ever run away. Jac is certain the answer to her sister's disappearance is somewhere in the town.

Because twenty years ago, another teenage girl went missing. Paige Gilmore, beautiful and talented daughter of eccentric matriarch, Iris Gilmore, disappeared on the annual Gilmore Hotel Open Day. As Jac starts the search for Charlie, she is drawn to the Gilmore Hotel - the haunted house of her childhood, a place that holds its own secrets and mysteries and is still home to the enigmatic Iris and her long-suffering daughter, Lisa.

Meanwhile, as Jac desperately hunts for answers to Charlie's disappearance, another Open Day looms, and Jac begins to realise everyone at the hotel has a secret - and that someone is willing to kill to keep the truth from coming out.

From Ngaio Marsh Award shortlisted author, Nikki Crutchley, In Her Blood is a compulsively readable dark, twisty and atmospheric thriller, sure to keep you turning the pages until deep into the night.

'This story weaves past and present with unknown places, becoming more unsettling with every page. In Her Blood is a chilling slow burn, sure to grip fans of psychological thrillers by Paula Hawkins and Rose Carlyle.' Books+Publishing

'Moody and atmospheric, a tense and twisting story that crackles off the page' Mercedes Mercier, White Noise

Genre:

Thrillers (Fiction)

Detective and mystery fiction.

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It's been a long time since Jac Morgan was in her New Zealand hometown of Everly. She needed to be far away from her past and all the rumours about her involvement in the housefire that killed her mother. Now, though, Jac's younger sister Charlie is missing, and nobody in town cares enough about the Morgans to do anything about it. As Jac finds a job cleaning up Everly's slowly decaying Hotel Gilmore--the site of another disappearance decades earlier--she begins to suspect there's more to the building's history than anyone is willing to admit. From Jac's hunt for her sister and Charlie's increasing horror as she sits trapped by an unknown assailant, to the tale of unloved daughter and hotel heir Lisa Gilmore 21 years earlier, this story weaves past and present with unknown places, becoming more unsettling with every page. The halls, rooms and secret doors of Hotel Gilmore are thick with dust and years of grim history, which makes for a disquieting setting. Jac is a flawed character--she expects nothing from anybody, including herself, and gets exactly that--but she is determined to find the sister whose disappearance everyone is dismissing . In Her Blood is a chilling slow burn, sure to grip fans of psychological thrillers by Paula Hawkins and Rose Carlyle. Fiona Hardy is a children's author and a bookseller at Readings.