Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    Blood Relations
    Blood Relations
    Blood Relations
    Audiobook12 hours

    Blood Relations

    Written by Jonathan Moore

    Narrated by David Colacci

    4/5

    ()

    Switch to ebook

    About this audiobook

    Who is Claire Gravesend?

    So wonders PI Lee Crowe when he finds her dead, in a fine cocktail dress, on top of a Rolls Royce, in the most dangerous neighborhood in San Francisco. Claire's mother, Olivia, is one of the richest people in California. She doesn't believe the coroner: her daughter did not kill herself. Olivia hires Crowe, who-having just foiled a federal case against a cartel kingpin-is eager for distraction. But the questions about the Gravesend family pile up fast.

    First, the autopsy reveals round scars running down Claire's spine, old marks Olivia won't explain. Then, Crowe visits Claire's Boston townhouse and has to fend off an armed intruder. Is it the Feds out for revenge? Or is this connected to the Gravesends? He leaves Boston afraid, but finds his way to Claire's secret San Francisco pied-à-terre. It's there that his questions come to a head. Sleeping in an upstairs bedroom, he finds Claire-her face, her hair, her scars-and as far as he can tell, she's alive. And Crowe's back at the start:

    Who is Claire Gravesend?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateJun 18, 2019
    ISBN9781684418114
    Author

    Jonathan Moore

    JONATHAN MOORE lives in Hawaii with his wife and son, and is the author of five books. Before completing law school in New Orleans, he was an English teacher, a bar owner, a raft guide, a counselor at a Texas wilderness camp for juvenile delinquents, and an investigator for a criminal defense attorney in Washington, D.C.

    More audiobooks from Jonathan Moore

    Related to Blood Relations

    Related audiobooks

    Mystery For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      ‘It’s Time The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo Grew Up’: Karin Smirnoff On Her Shocking Sequel

      Sep 5, 2023

      The introverted, anarchical punk-goth hacker heroine of the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo novels had always intrigued Karin Smirnoff. In fact, the eponymous Lisbeth Salander was the reason Smirnoff read all six books in the series. So when the Swedish

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Four Best Audiobooks Of June To Take You Places

      Jun 23, 2020

      Hardboiled mysteries, obscure farming communities, and tales of home and family provide ample entertainment in June’s audiobook roundup.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Parakeet

      May 29, 2020

      Parakeet
      11 min read

    • Article

      Also Out

      Mar 23, 2022

      We enjoyed previous Sarah Lotz books like The Three, so we were surprised that her latest looks like a simple love story. However, Amazon has IMPOSSIBLE (out now, Harper Collins) filed under “romance time travel”… A pleasure moon is the setting of Kh

      1 min read

    • Article

      How I Write

      Jan 2, 2020

      B.A. Paris is the author of four bestselling novels. Her debut, Behind Closed Doors , sold over a million copies, while her long-anticipated latest novel, The Dilemma , is set to be one of this year’s most chilling thrillers. I’m not a planner – I

      1 min read

    • Article

      TV Pieces Of Her

      Mar 24, 2022

      TV Pieces Of Her
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Pallbearers Club

      Jun 15, 2022

      The Pallbearers Club
      1 min read

    • Article

      The Truth About Lie Detectors

      Apr 25, 2022

      You’ve seen polygraph tests a thousand times on crime dramas and daytime TV: a stubborn suspect gets hooked to the machine and their darkest secrets come spilling out, etched forever onto a roll of paper. Its results are often presented as fact, as b

      3 min read

    • Article

      The Girls off the Cliff

      May 6, 2017

      The Girls off the Cliff
      1 min read

    • Article

      Smoking MIRRORS

      May 30, 2021

      The imaginary world of childhood is the backdrop to this sinister psychological thriller. It is set in a rambling old Edinburgh house where twin sisters El and Cat live inside a make-believe existence of pirate ships, witches, clowns and wild adventu

      1 min read

    • Article

      POLISHED Gems

      Aug 5, 2021

      POLISHED Gems
      9 min read

    • Article

      Great Reads

      Aug 9, 2019

      By Chandler Baker Sloane, Ardie, Grace, and Rosalita have worked at Truviv, Inc. for years. The sudden death of Truviv’s CEO means their boss, Ames, will likely take over the entire company. Each of the women has a different relationship with Ames,

      1 min read

    • Article

      The 22 Murders Of Madison May

      Jul 14, 2021

      ⏵ RELEASED OUT NOW! 336 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook ⏵ Author Max Barry ⏵ Publisher Hodder & Stoughton ➔ Why did Quantum Leap’s Dr Sam Beckett never find his way home? This multiverse-hopping sci-fi novel offers an answer: because travellers can

      1 min read

    • Article

      Hide

      May 18, 2022

      RELEASED 24 MAY 256 pages | Hardback/ebook/audiobook Author Kiersten White Publisher Del Rey “The book you need after Squid Game!” yells the hype for Kiersten White’s latest. Well, sort of. In fact this well-written horror novel feels closer to The C

      1 min read

    • Article

      Who Was That Girl?

      Apr 21, 2021

      Who Was That Girl?
      7 min read

    • Article

      The Man I Should Have Married

      Dec 29, 2019

      The Man I Should Have Married
      11 min read

    • Article

      Sirens

      Jul 27, 2020

      Sirens
      19 min read

    • Article

      The Straw Hat

      Aug 2, 2018

      The Straw Hat
      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for Blood Relations

    4/5

    14 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      Leland Crowe is a disbarred lawyer who makes a living as a private investigator in California. He has a reputation for getting things done, often using methods are that are unorthodox and/or illegal (among them are bribery and electronic surveillance of private citizens). Jonathan Moore, in "Blood Relations," depicts Leland as a man without a clear sense of right and wrong. For example, a defense attorney named Jim Gardner hires Crowe to undermine the prosecution's case against the leader of an international drug cartel. Another example of Lee's ruthlessness is evident when he stumbles upon the body of a woman, Claire Gravesend, whose corpse has landed on top of a Rolls Royce. Instead of alerting the authorities, Lee snaps photographs of the dead woman that he peddles to the tabloids for a tidy sum. Subsequently, the victim's mother, the fabulously wealthy and influential Olivia Gravesend, hires Lee to find the person who killed her daughter. Olivia does not believe that Claire took her own life.

      Moore's story, with its shameful secrets, lies, and intrigue, moves along briskly. However, its flaws outweigh its merits. The muddled plot involves a power-hungry scientist whose reprehensible actions are vaguely described but never fully explained. The novel has little humor and numerous scenes of gratuitous violence. More than once, Lee is beaten up so badly that it strains credulity when he dusts himself off and resumes his quest to track down a criminal mastermind. Lee Crowe is an intelligent and street-smart guy who, to his credit, risks his life to bring down a monster. Still, it is difficult to warm up to this reckless and self-centered opportunist. ”Blood Relations" lacks depth and coherence; at best, it is a quick read for those who are curious to see how, time and again, Crowe manages to get himself in and out of impossible situations.