Review: Bloodline

Bloodline by Jess Lourey
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Thank you to Booklist for the advanced reader's copy!

Joan Harken loves her job as a journalist in Minneapolis but when she’s mugged just outside her apartment, she immediately agrees to move. Her fiancé, Deck, wants to raise their unborn child in his hometown of Lilydale. After spending most of her childhood on the road, a town with the slogan “Come Home Forever” sounds like perfection. It doesn’t take long, however, for Lilydale’s charm to wear off. The intrusive kindness of her neighbors, the strange hold of the town’s social club on the citizens, and the unsolved murder of a little boy put Joan in a heightened state of anxiety. When a person claiming to be the missing boy arrives in town, the chain of events that follow turn Joan’s new small town life completely upside down.

Loury’s Bloodline emanates a menacing sense of place and a continuous skin-crawling tension. Readers will recognize a similarity to Joan’s battle with her own sanity in B.A. Paris’ The Breakdown and Mary Kubica’s The Other Mrs. This heart pounding psychological thriller will excite all mystery lovers.

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