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by Boomert - Blood Born by Kathryn Fox 07 Jan 2010
The list of Kathryn Fox’s crime-writing peers who have praised her earlier novels--Malicious Intent, Without Consent and Skin and Bone--is impressive and includes Jeffery Deaver and Lee Child. Fans of her gutsy protagonist Dr Anya Crighton, pathologist and forensic physician, will not be disappointed by this latest offering which is consistent with the author’s gripping, hard-hitting, not-for-thesqueamish style where bodies drop like flies. In Blood Born, Fox--the medical practitioner with a penchant for forensics--incorporates elements of some of Australia’s most notorious crimes, details of which are well embedded in the nation’s psyche. When a gang rape victim dies hours before she is due to testify at a trial, it seems that the violent Harbourn brothers, her accused attackers, may walk free. A brutal assault of two sisters follows and, working with detective Kate Farrer to solve the case, Dr Crighton becomes increasingly involved with the notorious Harbourn family and their powerful matriarch Noelene. A shocking discovery made by Crighton’s litigator colleague complicates matters further and Crighton’s life is endangered. Proceeding at an unrelenting, movie-like pace, Blood Born has everything crime readers have come to expect.

This review from Australian Bookseller & Publisher magazine (March 2009, Vol 88, No 6.) is reproduced by kind permission of Thorpe-Bowker, a division of R R Bowker LLC. © Copyright 2009, Thorpe-Bowker.

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