A propulsive debut suspense novel, filled up with secrets, nerve-jangling pressure, perplexing mystery, and cold-blooded murder, when a police officer over the hunt for a macabre serial killer is brutally attacked, and only his partner understands the truth about what happened-and who achieved it.

After months of hunting a cold-blooded murderer the fact that press has dubbed the Thorn Killer, Detective Greg Carver is shot in his own home. His trusted partner, Ruth Lake, is definitely only with him. However instead of phoning about Splinter in the Bloodstream: A Novel for help, she’s rearranged the crime scene and wiped the area clean of prints.

But Carver isn’t dead.

Awakening in a healthcare facility, Carver does not have any memory to be shot, but is certain that his assailant may be the Thorn Killer. Though there is no evidence to aid his state, Carver insists the attack is retaliation, an attempt to scare the detective from the psychopath’s aroma, because he’s getting as well close. Trapped in a medical center bed but still extremely weak, Carver’s obsession expands. He’s desperate to get back to work and finally toe nail the bastard, before even more innocent blood is usually spilled.

One person knows the truth and she’s not sharing with. She’s also today leading the Thorn Killer analysis while Carver recuperates. It doesn’t matter that Carver and all of those other force are counting on her, and that more victims’ lives on the line. Ruth is normally keeping a dangerous magic formula, and she’ll cross every line-sacrificing her colleagues, her career, and perhaps even her personal life-to keep it from surfacing.

Utterly engrossing and filled with masterfully crafted surprises, Splinter in the Blood is a propulsive roller-coaster ride, filled up with deception, nerve-jangling tension, perplexing mystery, and cold-blooded murder.