Plot Summary
Cat Ferry's life is unusual. As a forensic odontologist, she gets to see a side of criminals that the world rarely does. From bite marks on victim's bodies to half eaten pieces of food, she'll use it to find you, if you've done wrong. She's on top of the world until she gets a new case: middle-aged men, bite marks everywhere, and a chilling note; "My work is never done". Then the weird stuff starts to happen. She spills something in her house, two footprints appear instead of one. Strange dreams. Flashbacks of memories she can't be sure are real. What happened to her? Are these dreams just dreams, or something far more sinister?
Blood Memory is a gripping tale, equal parts heartwarming and dramatic, and will leave even the most stoic reader questioning what really happened. It's an excellent book and recommended for adults of all ages.
Greg Iles was born in 1960 in Stuttgart, Germany. Son of a US embassy physician, he eventually moved to Natchetz, Missisippi, where many of his books take place. During his younger years, he made his debut as a singer/songwriter as part of the band Frankly Scarlet, only to quit upon becoming married in favor of life as a writer. His first book, Spandau Phoenix, was published in 1993 and quickly became one of the first to rise to the top of the New York Times bestseller list. He also was the primary writer for the movie Trapped. He resides in Natchetz, Missisippi with his wife.
"blood memory is my first book from greg iles. Really spellbound. Im a slow redaer because i used to enjoy every bit of detail aa novel provide. But this book made me read it with in very short time. Middle of the novel is really pacing like a race car. But end is some how slow. But it would make u suspect every charachter till the end."
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Ragebull (4 out of 5 stars)
Publisher Summary
Catherine “Cat” Ferry is a forensic odontologist, a specialist in bite marks and the clues they provide. But while Cat’s colleagues know her as a world-class scientist, she secretly attempts to manage her fragile psyche with alcohol, delving into the minds of rapists and murderers yet never allowing her own frightening past to creep into the foreground.
Cat’s latest case involves a disturbing murder in New Orleans. Banishing her personal demons, she focuses on the potential killer, until one morning she’s paralyzed by a panic attack at a grisly murder scene. Praying the attack is a onetime event, she continues her job as a consultant to the New Orleans Police Department, but when another victim dies in the same shocking way—raising fears that a serial killer is at large—Cat blacks out over the victim’s mutilated corpse.
Suspended from the FBI task force, plagued by nightmares, and at odds with her married lover—a homicide detective—Cat finally reaches her breaking point. In a desperate effort to regain control over a life spiraling out of control, Cat retreats to her hometown of Natchez, Mississippi. But her family’s secluded antebellum estate provides no sanctuary.
When some of Cat’s forensic chemicals are spilled in her childhood bedroom, two bloody footprints are revealed. This sight shocks her more than any corpse she has seen in her career. Cat’s father was murdered when she was eight years old, but she always believed the crime occurred in the garden outside their home. The bloody footprints suggest otherwise.
Driven by this fragment of her past, Cat attempts a forensic reconstruction of the decades-old crime, even as developments with the New Orleans task force pull her back into the case she left behind. Plagued by troubling nightmares, Cat pieces together the horrifying events she has been shielded from all her life. Soon, both she and the FBI realize that the murders occurring now in New Orleans are intimately bound up with Cat’s family and her past.
Can Cat trust her own memories? Or has the truth been so distorted that she can never know her family’s real history? Finding a solution to these intertwined murders means more than stopping a remorseless killer—it may be the only way to save Cat Ferry’s sanity...and her life.
Greg Iles is a masterful storyteller. In this dramatic novel of suspense he deftly probes the relationship between good and evil, and the unique power of human memory to reconstruct—or completely reinvent—the past.
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About Joyce Bean
Joyce Bean is an accomplished audiobook narrator and director. In addition to having won several AudioFile Earphones Awards, she has been nominated multiple times for the prestigious Audie Award. Equally adept at narrating fiction and nonfiction, and she also narrates audiobooks under the name Jane Brown.