Blood Like Mine
Hell’s Hundred (Soho Press)
August 6, 2024
“Stay on the move. Stay out of sight.”
In LA Times Book Prizewinner Stuart Neville’s daring foray into horror fiction, a mother takes desperate measures to protect her daughter in a sinister, blood-chilling highway pursuit across the American West.
On a snowy December night, single mother Rebecca Carter drives her van into a snowbank to avoid hitting an elk on a desolate mountain highway. She is at the end of her rope, out of money and food. Still, she refuses help from a man in a pickup truck—Rebecca’s adolescent daughter, Moonflower, is on the run from a grisly secret, and the last thing they can afford is to be remembered by anyone they meet.
Meanwhile, Special Agent Marc Donner of the FBI has spent the better part of two years hunting down a gruesome serial killer who drains victims of blood before severing their spinal cords, leaving a trail of bodies throughout the American West. As Agent Donner’s investigation brings him closer and closer to where Rebecca and Moonflower are hiding out, in the foothills of Colorado, the life that Rebecca has fought so hard to hold together for her daughter becomes increasingly imperiled.
In this deadly, high-stakes game of cat and mouse by the Los Angeles Times Book Prize–winning author of The Ghosts of Belfast, nobody is safe and nothing is certain—not even the line between predator and prey.
Foreign Sales:
Simon & Schuster / U.K.
Praise for Stuart Neville:
“Noir, noir, noir—everybody wants to write noir fiction. But most
self-anointed ‘noir’ narratives just don’t hack it. They’re dark and
dreary, to be sure; but a true noir mystery must also have a black
heart. This kind of spiritual despair comes naturally to Stuart Neville,
whose Belfast crime novels bleed.”
—The New York Times Book Review on THE TRAVELLER
“Tightly wound, emotionally resonant . . . Displays an acute understanding of
the true state of Northern Ireland, still under the thumb of decades of violence”
—Los Angeles Times on BELFAST
“The current master of neo-noir detective fiction.”
—The Boston Globe on RATLINES
“[A] gut-wrenching novel of psychological suspense with ghostly
undertones…This unforgettable tale of servitude and subservience,
domestic abuse, and toxic masculinity builds to a resolution offering
redemption and heartfelt solace. Neville has outdone himself.”
—Publisher’s Weekly on THE HOUSE OF ASHES, Starred Review
Praise for Blood Like Mine:
Deadly Pleasures’ Most Anticipated Mysteries and Thrillers of 2024
“A heart-pounding fusion of horror and crime thriller, Blood Like Mine
redefines the roles of cat and mouse while packing punches both visceral
and emotional. This propulsive, blood-spattered pursuit across the
American Southwest will leave readers horrified and hungry for more.”
—Luke Dumas, bestselling author of A HISTORY OF FEAR
“A visceral, cinematic masterpiece. Silence of the Lambs filtered through the lens
of prime Stephen King. You won’t read a more gut-wrenching novel this year.”
—Ed James, author of the DI Simon Fenchurch series
“Stuart Neville at his very, very best—this book grabs
your heart and doesn’t let go.”
—Ruth Ware, New York Times bestselling author of The Woman in Cabin 10
“This is quite simply the best crime novel I’ve read this year. A stunning
work of fiction that seized me by the throat from the first page
to the last. I won’t stop thinking about this one for some time.”
—Cass Green, author of In a Cottage in a Wood