Blood in the Cradle

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It's a case every detective dreads-the one that forces them to confront their traumatic past.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When decorated detective </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Chloe Van Belle</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> receives a call about a severed limb in a fountain she dreads returning to Encounters a renowned angel-worshipping church tied to her dark childhood wounds. She's further shocked to learn six-year-old Lillian vanished from the congregation without being reported.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Chloe's half-sister Rosie a devout believer engaged to the reverend's son remains unwavering that everything unfolds according to divine will refusing to see the evil in front of her.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>An eerie search leads to Lillian's body tucked in a cradle with a vintage watch linking the crime to a similar murder twenty years ago. The gruesome scene triggers Chloe's morbid fascination with death making her visual-gustatory synesthesia which gives murder a literal sweet taste harder to hide. With Chloe's nightmares and half-memories resurfacing she engages in a macabre game of cat and mouse with the killer.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>As casualties grow and evidence points to the highest levels of the church leadership Chloe must protect Rosie and her team-but is it from a monster or herself?</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A must-read for fans of Alex Marwood's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Poison Garden</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and Tana French's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In the Woods!</em></p><p></p>