In the Blood is the Lisa Unger novel we’ve all been waiting for—and a return to the dark psychological suspense that made Beautiful Lies a bestseller around the world.
Lana Granger lives a life of lies. She has told so many lies about where she comes from and who she is that the truth is like a cloudy nightmare she can’t quite recall. About to graduate from college and with her trust fund almost tapped out, she takes a job babysitting a troubled boy named Luke. Expelled from schools all over the country, the manipulative young Luke is accustomed to controlling the people in his life. But, in Lana, he may have met his match. Or has Lana met hers?
When Lana’s closest friend, Beck, mysteriously disappears, Lana resumes her lying ways—to friends, to the police, to herself. The police have a lot of questions for Lana when the story about her whereabouts the night Beck disappeared doesn’t jibe with eyewitness accounts. Lana will do anything to hide the truth, but it might not be enough to keep her ominous secrets buried: Someone else knows about Lana’s lies. And he’s dying to tell.
Lisa Unger’s writing has been hailed as “sensational” (Publishers Weekly) and “sophisticated” (New York Daily News), with “gripping narrative and evocative, muscular prose” (Associated Press). Masterfully suspenseful, finely crafted, and written with a no-holds-barred raw power, In the Blood is Unger at her best.
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“This novel, full of dark psychological suspense, is set in a small
college town not far from New York City; it follows Lana Granger, a
psychology major nearing graduation…At the suggestion of
faculty advisor Langdon Hewes, she becomes the nanny of Luke, a troubled
eleven-year-old who uses very adult methods of terrorizing his mother,
Rachel. Soon he’s tormenting Lana with seemingly uncanny knowledge of
her past. The narrative is interspersed with excerpts from the diary of
an unidentified mother about her life with an extremely disturbed child,
which is read by Mol in a soft voice that varies from guardedly
optimistic to despondent. Handling the more extensive role of Lana,
Thaxon is tart, almost flippant when the extremely bright student is
viewing her life objectively, then switches to a less confident, almost
miserable approach when expressing self-doubt and regret over past
mistakes.”
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Publishers Weekly, audio review