Black Blood A Novel of Dark Suspense

In John Meaney's follow-up to the much-acclaimedBone Song,a cop in a morbidly lush necropolis crosses the barrier between life and death to avenge the murder of his lovera woman whose heart now beats in his chest.... Tristopolitan police lieutenant Donal Riordan returned from the dead for one purpose: to stop the killer who took not only his life but his reason for living it. But first he must penetrate a secret cabal known as the Black Circle, whose stranglehold on the city's elite is preparation for a magical coup d'etat fueled by a sacrifice of unprecedented bloodshed. At the center of this ring of evil is the man responsible for his lover's murdera man Donal has already had to kill once before.

John Meaney is the author of five previous novels, including Bone Song, and has been short-listed three times for the British Science Fiction Award. He has a degree in physics and computer science and holds a black belt in Shotokan karate. He lives with his wife in Kent, England, where he is at work on his next novel.


From the Hardcover edition.