Distant Blood (Jordan Poteet)

Jordy Poteet's newly-discovered father, Bob Don Goertz, invites him to a family reunion on an island off the Texas coast. Jordy does not want to acknowledge Bob Don, let alone the rest of his extended family. However, his girlfriend Candace convinces him that he owes his father the respect of going and that he needs to get to know his biological family. Jordy goes grudgingly, and begins to think he made a mistake, when his new family begins to argue and snipe at one another and at him. One of his relatives shows up dead under suspicious circumstances and Jordy notices how eager some of them are to blame it on natural causes or suicide. As time passes, Jordy begins to learn family secrets which have been kept quiet for years. He feels certain that one of the family is the murderer, but the family lies and deceptions seem to have created a number of people who had motive and opportunity. This is the most powerful book yet, in the wonderful Jordan Poteet Series. Abbott paints wonderful word pictures and creates totally believable, if malevolent, characters. This book is highly recommended!

The man is a wonder to read,more please and faster!!!!!!!!!!

Every Jordy Poteet novel leaves me wanting more. I come from a Oklahoma/Arkansas family, and the speech patterns and family relationships are very familiar and comfortable to me. Why hasn't there been another book? Come on, I want to know what happens next! I'm getting homesick for Mirabeau, Texas.

I just couldn't get enough of this Jordan Poteet series, and even though I was dissapointed that it seems to have ended with "Distant Blood"; I look forward to the next closet sleuth I'm sure Abbott will create. All four of his novels left me wanting MORE MORE MORE!