Zoë Sharp will be reading at our next Noir at the Bar event. Noir at the Bar meets at Threadgills South off of Riverside, and starts at 7 PM. Sharp will be joined by John Lawton, Rick Ollerman, Mike McCrary and Jesse Sublett. Copies of each author’s latest will be available for sale at the event. Below, you’ll find a review of The Blood Whisperer, Sharp’s latest book to make its way across the pond.
Post by MysteryPeople Contributor Meike Alana
Zoë Sharp may be known for her Charlie Fox series, but her latest stand-alone, The Blood Whisperer, is killer. At one time, Kelly Jacks worked in law enforcement as one of the best CSI’s in the business. Nicknamed “The Blood Whisperer” for her seeming ability to coax the most incriminating details out of every crime scene, she had only to read the evidence carefully to find the truth—the evidence never lied. So when she wakes up next to a mutilated body with a bloody knife in her hand, she knows she’s been framed and trusts that the evidence will clear her. But this time the evidence lets her down—she is convicted and serves a 6-year prison term for manslaughter.
Now she is free and working as a crime scene cleaner. In her former life she spent 10 years as the first on the scene, ready to investigate the evidence and uncover the circumstances of the crime. Now she is the last one in, charged with erasing all evidence that a crime even took place. It’s not a bad life and she’s making a go at returning to a sense of normalcy.
Until the day she notices something amiss at the site of an apparent suicide. Something about the blood spatter pattern suggests that the victim may have had some help in pulling the trigger. Kelly alerts her boss, Ray McCarron, of her suspicions but he tells her to move forward with the cleanup. The next day Ray is beaten to within an inch of his life.
Kelly doesn’t think the two events are connected at first. But when she wakes up next to the mutilated body of her coworker Tyrone, with a bloody knife in her hands, she realizes that she’s been set up again. This time, she doesn’t trust law enforcement to clear her name and goes on the run to find the real killer herself. And she uses some special skills she picked up in prison to take no prisoners.
Zoë Sharp is the author of the Charlie Fox series, which includes 10 novels, a short-story collection, and a novella. In Kelly Jacks, Sharp has created another kick-ass female character with an intriguing background. In this stand-alone novel (that one desperately hopes may become the first in a new series), Sharp has crafted a complex, twisting plot including Russian gangsters and the elite world of thoroughbred horse racing. As the suspense mounts and the body count rises, the reader is left to race breathlessly to the last page.
Noir at the Bar meets at Threadgills South off of Riverside, and starts at 7 PM. Sharp will be joined by John Lawton, Rick Ollerman, Mike McCrary and Jesse Sublett. Copies of each author’s latest will be available for sale at the event. Find out more about Noir at the Bar!
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