Beauty in the Blood A Novel

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Available from Swoon City when we last checked, in the last two days. Sold from the shop’s own store; the price there is the one that counts.

A curse rolls out over centuries, murky and unknowable as swamp waters, shaping and destroying lives. “Carter delivers. . . . [A] fusion of detective fiction and horror that is impossible to look away from.” — The New York Times Book Review Sarah Toomey is a successful young black lawyer, lovely but straitlaced– and afraid that she is losing her mind. Since the death of her mother, a force she can neither understand nor control is manipulating her memory and driving her to unexplained acts of vi