Blood Kin

Dorner, Marjorie

ISBN 10: 074990156X / ISBN 13: 9780749901561

Published by Piatkus Books, London, 1992

About this Item

Minor shelf wear to unclipped DJ, light foxing to endpapers and edges of reading block. ; Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine. Nice tight copy, no names or marks inside, appears unread. DJ design by Ken Leeder. ; 304 pages; Kate Lundgren is a beautiful, intelligent young woman who seems to have everything. But having been adopted she has an obsession to discover her real parents. However when she succeeds in tracing her mother she is dismayed at what she finds. And her natural mother's refusal to tell her the identity of her father or the circumstances of her birth. Undaunted she persists only to find herself caught up in the brutal murder of her mother and the suspicion that she could be next.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Blood Kin
• Publisher: Piatkus Books, London
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074990156X
• ISBN 13: 9780749901561
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Very Good+
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+

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Synopsis

Obsessed with finding her roots, adoptee Kate Lundgren travels to a quiet Minnesota town where she finds her biological mother to be callous, cold, secretive, and, the next day, strangled to death. 15,000 first printing. $10,000 ad/promo. Tour.

From Kirkus Reviews

Days after happily adopted Kate Lundgren browbeats her foster parents into helping her find Teresa Cruzan, her birth mother (whose identity they've hidden from her through four years of feigned searching)--and after Kate has thrust herself into unwilling Terry's life--she discovers Terry's strangled body and sets out, with the help of chastely romantic Jack Kramer, to find her father and uncover the motive for Terry's murder. The small-town Minnesota atmosphere, well- meaning and provincial, is particularly good--``Woodward is proof,'' as Jack says, ``that hell is full and the dead walk the earth''--and so is the facility that Dorner (Family Closets, Freeze Frame) shows in juggling candidates for Kate's paternity (Terry's lowlife companion Bruce Maxwell, self-righteous businessman Thomas Werner, even--gasp!- -Kate's adoptive father Doug). Too many nocturnal stalkings and near-fatal attacks for all but the most devoted Mary Higgins Clarkies--but the final unmasking is well worth the wait. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.