Blood Memory - Greg Iles

Suspended from a serial murder case in New Orleans, FBI forensics expert Catherine Cat Ferry returns to her small Mississippi hometown, where she uncovers evidence of her father's murder from years earlier. Cat soon realizes it may be related to the current murders. nFrom the author of the New York Times bestselling Natchez Burning trilogy and the Penn Cage series, and hailed by Dan Brown (The Da Vinci Code) for his utterly consuming suspense fiction, Greg Iles melds forensic detail with penetrating insight in this novel that delves in the heart of a killer in a Mississippi town.

nSome memories live deep in the soul, indelible and dangerous, waiting to be resurrected... n nForensic dentist Cat Ferry is suspended from an FBI task force when the world-class expert 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 might have blood on her hands...

n nAs Southern Gothic as it gets (Kirkus Reviews), Greg Iles's Blood Memory will have readers turning pages at a breakneck pace (New Orleans Times-Picayune).n