Blood Memory

Blood Memory
Greg Iles

‘Iles’s way of telling the story lifts him clear of the pack into a different league’ (Observer) in this masterful psychological serial killer thriller from the New York Times No.1 bestseller.Some memories live deep in the soul, waiting to be resurrected…He kills like an animal, but the bite marks on his victims are unmistakably human… In the suffocating heat of a New Orleans summer, forensic expert Cat Ferry is called on by the FBI to investigate a series of brutal murders. Cat has seen some terrible crimes over the years, though none so horrific or apparently random as these.Called on by the FBI to investigate serial murders, Cat has seen some terrible crimes over the years, but none as horrific or apparently random as the sequence of brutal slayings that confront her now.Plagued by nightmares and panic attacks, Cat returns to her Mississippi hometown. But something associated with this case is calling out to her. Something rooted in the dark recesses of her memory. Someone from the past, who wants Cat to remember what time has allowed her to forget…

GREG ILES

Blood Memory

Dedication (#ulink_c4437cae-30c8-55bc-80d8-e26267ad0209)

This novel is dedicated to all those women who realize in the dead of night that something is wrong, and has been for a long time. More than most, they know that Faulkner’s words are true: ‘There is no such thing as was – only is. If was existed, there would be no grief or sorrow.’ You are not alone.

Memory is the guardian of all things.

—Cicero

Evil being the root of mystery,

pain is the root of knowledge.

—Erasmus

Table of Contents

Cover (#ua678fd22-3d06-52dc-9acd-a9e5aea78b29)

Title Page (#u7dc4d53b-ba99-5671-88bd-99eeae1ec3fb)

Dedication (#u6750a7bf-447b-5fed-a0b6-6dfbb43940e7)

Epigraph (#u24c84b51-113e-5785-8817-e0212e513a5f)

Chapter One (#u5748c738-996b-5ffc-8980-c0550be16971)

Chapter Two (#ub3b2415d-2b4c-5255-a46d-b9a2ca570cec)

Chapter Three (#u6fc485ed-4326-52e6-9ef6-0fbcb0eb8df4)

Chapter Four (#ua38b2455-634d-56ac-adb0-988033130e5a)

Chapter Five (#uc5c6385b-41be-5c71-8cda-94a33d21dd24)

Chapter Six (#u0a60cfbf-80ab-573c-8e5b-822c75ac36aa)

Chapter Seven (#u9883a454-e45d-5383-90ba-9321ccce219b)

Chapter Eight (#uc5ddbb88-e4cd-5aad-86f5-bc2f52168563)

Chapter Nine (#u3ce6c47e-23df-5858-999c-cc5bf78d06da)

Chapter Ten (#u8a66507b-e253-5aa9-ab4d-f771b0a318a9)

Chapter Eleven (#u40c15740-e267-5c95-8cdd-e3bae7a271a8)

Chapter Twelve (#ude0b90ec-43e2-5c32-bae8-ef35ff28bb0c)

Chapter Thirteen (#u1c8629d0-500f-5566-86f7-86f7b3282ac1)

Chapter Fourteen (#ue7b09be2-af9f-5d99-8ac6-24fa92496928)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Eight (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Nine (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Thirty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)