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Blood Atonement (2009)

by Dan Waddell(Favorite Author)

3.86 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0141025662 (ISBN13: 9780141025667)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Penguin Books

series

Nigel Barnes

review 1: Second in the series featuring genealogist Nigel Barnes. Still clean! Again, a series of gruesome murders with a link to past events. This time there seems to be a link to some sort of cult. But how? And why can the victims' ancestors be traced back only to the last of the 19th century? There is a lot to discover in this family. This time there is some surprising DNA evidence motivating the search for family members. A very good read.
review 2: I still love the concept--genealogist solves mysteries through research, but this plot was too ridiculous even for me. Also numerous little lapses really irritated me--such as having a resident of a small town in Utah talking about something being 40 kilometers away. Kilometers? Sorry, despite all the educational attempt... mores, people in the US still talk about miles. Also, nonsense like this: "More than one and a half billion of these names had been captured on roll after roll of microfilm....These names were searchable on an online database." I wish. SOME of those names are online. And then: "He asked but was assured the database was usually very accurate." Seriously? When a good part of the FamilySearch data is still user-submitted, with no sources given? Although I suppose a Family History Center volunteer might have said that. Also, the idea that the death of 18 people in a fire would be reported in only ONE newspaper (of which only one copy of the relevant issue/s existed) is just ludicrous. Finally, a trained police officer entering someone's apartment with no search warrant and no back-up, not knowing what he might find, seems a little far-fetched, but I'm not an expert on London police procedure. less

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