"nicely paced, well written suspense tale"
"Never by Blood" is a murder mystery involving NASA,
Interpol, and a special agent from the Vatican. After a
pre-launch cocktail party for her astronaut husband,
Therese Elliot, a professor of Middle Ages religion at a
Catholic university, has a terrible dream in which she
sees the crew of the Atlantis, her husband's shuttle,
murdered and the words "auto da fe" scratched into the
metal of the ship. Convinced that her dream was the
result of overhearing one of the shuttle crew say
something disturbing, she tries to unearth what has caused
her fear. Her efforts uncover a series of existing murders, two
people in Florida, both involved in the shuttle launch,
the rest overseas. Because of the religious nature of the
threat, a special agent of the Vatican, John Cortise
becomes involved as Therese travels to London and Beirut
to unravel the identity of the killer, an identity that
must be determined before the shuttle is launched and her
dream becomes reality. Suspense is added when she
inadvertently strikes up a chatroom relationship with the
killer, whom she knows as "Jimenez the Inquisitor". "Never by Blood" is a nicely paced, well written tale,
with just enough fact about the actual launching of a
space shuttle to ground the story without overwhelming the
reader. The characters were well drawn including some of
the minor characters. The main characters, Therese, John,
Therese's husband, Mike Elliot, and "Jimenez" the killer
were very believable. The identity of the killer was
obscured enough to keep the reader guessing as to who it
was, a nice trick when you consider that a shuttle crew
only provides a limited number of candidates. Overall, "Never by Blood" is a very interesting book,
entertaining, and well worth reading. Janet Miller © Copyright 2002
for ParaNormal Romance
Reviews
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Reviewed by Janet Miller
Posted June 6, 2003
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Therese Elliott has a terrifying and realistic nightmare
about her husband's upcoming launch of the shuttle
Atlantis, twenty-five days before launch. In her dream the
entire crew has been murdered by a madman, and she is
seeing dead bodies through her husband's eyes. Little does
she know, until she hooks up with a investigative priest
from the Vatican, that she has unconsciously tuned into an
international terrorist with his own agenda for disrupting
the flight and destroying the space station.
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