This is a tale of murder – several murders, both old and new. In 1803 Mawgan Hendry is slain on board his fishing boat off the Cornish coast of England. It’s up to American, Jefferson Tayte, a professional genealogist, to solve this ancient crime as well as modern ones. And Tayte is hardly a two-fisted, gun- toting hero. He’s rather bookish, quite and studious and is deathly afraid of airplanes.
Wealthy Walter Sloan of Chicago has hired Tayte to trace his ancestor, James Fairborne. Although James and his family left America in 1783 and returned to England, all of them apparently vanished into thin air. Tayte’s research uncovers the tragic life of a young Cornish girl and the discovery of a dark secret that he believes will lead him to the family he seeks. But a calculated killer is out to stop him.
Along the way Tayte encounters people, both good and evil, who are tied to the Fairbornes’ mysterious disappearance. People are killed because of his interference, and he almost loses his own life. But he prevails in a spectacular ending.
In The Blood is the first book in the Jefferson Tayte mystery series. I plan to read them all.
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Quote for the day:
A writer is someone who tortures the alphabet for fun and profit. ~ Sarah Bird
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