Out For Blood

Out For Blood

The tense and addictive detective thriller set in Aberdeen

Summary

DI Eve Hunter is back in the edge-of-your-seat new detective thriller from Deborah Masson, winning author of the Bloody Scotland Crime Debut of the Year 2020.

A young man, the son of an influential businessman, is discovered dead in his central Aberdeen apartment.

Hours later, a teenaged girl with no identification is found hanged in a suspected suicide.

As DI Eve Hunter and her team investigate the two cases, they find themselves in a tug-of-war between privilege and poverty; between the elite and those on the fringes of society.

Then an unexpected breakthrough leads them to the shocking conclusion: that those in power have been at the top for too long - and now, someone is going to desperate lengths to bring them down...

Can they stop someone who is dead set on revenge, no matter the cost?

*****

READERS ARE OBSESSED WITH THE DI EVE HUNTER SERIES

'One of the best books I've ever read!'
'I loved DI Eve Hunter and her team'
'Without a doubt the best police procedural I have read in a long time'
'I cannot wait to see what else is to come in the DI Eve Hunter series'
'You won't want to stop reading this addictive crime novel'
'Fantastic characters that you'll fall in love with - I really couldn't put this book down!'
'Can't wait for the next one . . . and the next one . . . and the next one!'

'Out For Blood has everything you need in a crime thriller and more' Rebecca Bradley
'DI Eve Hunter is truly a force to be reckoned with' David Jackson
'This is first-class crime fiction' Marion Todd
'Not to be missed, edge-of-the-seat stuff from a genuine rising star' Denzil Meyrick

Reviews

  • Brilliant. A great new voice in the police procedural world. Hooks you in from the first chapter and doesn't let up. Characters are real people you want to spend time with. Out For Blood has everything you need in a crime thriller and more.
    Rebecca Bradley

About the author

Deborah Masson

Deborah Masson was born and bred in Aberdeen, Scotland. Always restless and fighting against being a responsible adult, she worked in several jobs including secretarial, marketing, reporting for the city's freebie newspaper and a stint as a postie - to name but a few.

Through it all, she always read crime fiction and, when motherhood finally settled her into being an adult (maybe even a responsible one) she turned her hand to writing what she loved. Deborah started with short stories and flash fiction whilst her daughter napped and, when she later welcomed her son into the world, she decided to challenge her writing further through online courses with Professional Writing Academy and Faber Academy, where she wrote her award-winning debut novel Hold Your Tongue, the first in the DI Eve Hunter series. Her most recent book, From The Ashes, has been longlisted for the 2022 McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Novel of the Year.
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