Tainted Blood

by Andrew Billings

Moving to the lumber town of Buckthorn after the death of his wife, Peter Cochran learns that the town and his family have been terrorized for years by an elusive murderer who is targeting young men. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0515120464
• ISBN13: 9780515120462
• Release Date: April 1997
• Publisher: Jove Books
• Length: 535 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Madness, murder and dark family secrets!

This is a excellent psychothriller. When Pete Cochran decides to move his family to the small mining town of Buckthorn,Oregon. Cochran will soon regret it. The town has been terrorized for almost two decades by a sadistic serial killer who has been targeting the young men in town.This novel has great plot twists,terror, and a truly chilling surprise ending.If you like psychological thrillers with some nasty twists, violent shocking conclusion you will enjoy this shocker.

Deservingly belongs in the library of The World's Best Books

After promising his late wife's charge not to involve their two children with her pernicious family in Oregon, irrevocable events herd Peter Cochran and his family in New York right smack into the web of his in-law's aesthetically deceptive lair! One would yell, phone, or E-mail "DON'T GO!", but contemplating intervention only affirms Andrew Billings literary excellence!

Keep your eye on this author!

Tainted Blood has all the elements of a first-rate thiller and then some. When Pete Cochran's wife dies, he and his two children move to Buckthorn, Oregon to live with his in-laws. Something his wife made him promise not to do. What Pete does not know is that for the past eighteen years, Buckthorn has been troubled by the brutal slaying of young men. With his over zealous in-laws, a nephew who is diagnosed as the "stuff made of monsters," and a lover that looks remarkably like his wife, Pete has to leave town before becoming the killer's next victim. Tainted Blood is one heart pounding, in-your-face of a thriller. Just when you think you've figured out what happens next, the unexpected happens.

A very special thriller that will leave you numb

This is an outstanding thriller about a young, out-of-work executive who loses his wife to cancer. He goes to Oregon to live and work with his inlaws, only to find out that a serial killer has victimized the town for 18 years. In this complex and weirdly scary story, our hero must uncover the killer in order to clear himself of a recent murder. This is a great story, full of texture and local color

This one hits the mark

I liked this one a lot. The hero must not only find a serial killer, but also keep the parents of his dead wife from wooing his two kids away from him. The scary thing is that something like this could really happen