Blood Ties: A Bishop/Special Crimes Unit Novel

I was very happy with this product. It arrived quickly and in mint condition.

This author has a series that is very confusing. She has a series based on the character Bishop who is a psychic and who works for the FBI, while he is in all the books, he's not the main character in all of them. Here's where the confusing part comes in. In the series she has grouped them together in threes--The Shadows Trilogy, The Evil Trilogy, The Fear Trilogy, and The Blood Trilogy. This is the twelfth book in the whole series and the third book in the Blood Trilogy. In the past you didn't need to read the books in order if you didn't want to. Now that has changed. In this series she carried the story over all three novels, and in this one she also went over the whole series! I loved this story because it has all kinds of interesting twists, and histories. The paranormal, old friends, romance, and a serial killer whose unusual...even for the SCU. Again I would love to see Hollis have her own story!! I am warning you that I wasn't able to put this one down, not even to sleep because I just had to know what was going to come next. I didn't see the ending coming at all! I would love to give this more than five stars. This trilogy is better than all the other ones and each book is better than the last one! I can't wait for her next trilogy to come out with Bishop and crew!

This FBI series makes for great suspense reading. I have read every book in the series and would recommend then all as great reading.

If you've followed the Bishop books, you've got to read the latest in the series. PLEASE make sure you've read Blood Dreams and Blood Sins first so you're not lost. Great characters even though there are a lot of them to keep track of now. Well written.

Near Serenade, Tennessee, the remains of a butchered man and woman are found. The FBI Special Crimes Unit (SCU) led by Bishop and including his wife Miranda is sent to investigate. The unit moves into a nearby B & B, and quickly concludes that the male was meant for immediate finding while the female was not. Meanwhile a sniper begins killing people and something is interfering with the special skills of the SCU team. Unsure of Hollis Templeton's rapidly changing paranormal skills since Touching Evil. and he does not want to use Special Investigator Diana Brisco as the Lodge incident is thirty crow miles away (see Chill of Fears). However, Bishop has no choice. The only hope SCU has to stop what they increasingly believe is an inhuman evil is Diana using her unique psychic ability that enables her to walk in what she calls the void of color Gray Time to communicate with spirit guides. However she must be careful how long her spirit remains in Gray Time as too long means never returning to her body; an adversary plans to strand her there. This is an exciting Special Crimes Unit police procedural in which several team members play key roles including others not mentioned above. A glossary after the novel provides a who's who of SCU and their skills and appearances; this helps keep track as twelve members participate as do the Haven Operatives (bios also in the back). The story line is fast-paced from the moment local Pageant County Sheriff sexagenarian Duncan tells Miranda that neither he nor his department has ever seen let alone handle a case like this one and never takes a stuttering step from there. Fans of SCU will relish the twelfth SCU investigation as someone or something has brought the team to Tennessee to destroy them physically and spiritually. Harriet Klausner