Bad Blood

<p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The body slumps over the steering wheel. Pools of blood going tacky on the dash. Two shots to the back of the head.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A mafia-style hit in a small town.</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Special Agent Violet Darger</strong><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> must make sense of this savagery. Figure out how brutality like this could happen in rural Michigan.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The victim had been living the American dream. A small-business owner who built a construction empire. Started a family. Coached youth hockey. He seemed to have it all.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>But his surface life didn't tell the full story.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>He carried dark secrets to the grave. Left clues which offer more questions than answers clues that seem to lead Darger to Detroit.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>In the city she finds despair. Corruption. Decay.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Blocks of vacant buildings line the streets. Crumbling. Caving in. It resembles ancient ruins more than a modern American city. Concrete caverns waiting to be explored.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>And there among the rubble she gets swept up in the hunt for a notorious hit man.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>He kills for profit. Navigates the brutal world of organized crime. Harbors secrets of his own albeit domestic ones.</span></p><p><br></p><p><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>He holds the answers to all of Darger's questions but only if she can catch him.</span></p><p><br></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>This pulse-pounding thriller will have you on the edge of your seat until the final page. Fans of John Sandford Karin Slaughter Harlan Coben and Lisa Jackson should check out the Violet Darger series.</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>The books in the series can be read in any order so grab </em><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)><em>Bad Blood</em></strong><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> and get started today.</em></p><h1>Praise for the Violet Darger series:</h1><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Wow just wow! If you like scare-you-half-to-death mystery books this is the one for you. It starts with a bang and just doesn't stop.</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> -- Ada Lavin</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>A rush of excitement twists and turns.</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> -- C. Munger</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Insightful bloody. Page turner about the corruption of morality and warped thinking patterns.</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> -- Bella from </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Readingnstuff.com</strong></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Refuses to let go until you have read the last sentence.</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> -- Bloodymummer</span></p><p><br></p><p><em style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Reading a Violet Darger novel always feels like coming home to an old friend-we hang out we drink some coffee we talk about her and Loshak's personal lives we interview victims' families we chase down some serial killers-all the stuff you normally do with your friends except better. More exciting.</em><span style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)> -- eden Hudson author of </span><strong style=color: rgba(51 51 51 1)>Revenge of the Bloodslinger</strong></p>