Pat's Reviews > Blood Ties

This book is the follow up to the previous book - Everything is Mine. I don’t think this would work well as a stand alone, it is really better to read book 1 first. However, I also think this will be end of the story so, for those who don’t want to embark on a never-ending series, never fear. Both books are really very good!

The stories are set in Norway. In the previous book Clara Lofthus was the Secretary General for Justice. She is passionate about improving services for at risk children. In this book she has been appointed the Minister of Justice and is hopeful she make a difference in pursing her cause. Unfortunately, this job places even more demands on her time and, since she doesn’t want to leave her twin boys (ages about 8 years old) in the care of a nanny she must rely on her mother-in-law and a neighbour to watch over them after school. Her husband, Henrik, died in the previous book.

One day she comes home to find some things have been moved around and then there is a note - “I know what you did”. That’s not good, not good at all! Because Clara does have some nasty little secrets.

Not long after that she comes home to find the house deserted. No boys. She has a suspicion of who might have taken them and when that doesn’t pan out she is distraught. But her driver/bodyguard tells her that the boys watches, although now not transmitting, we’re last showing as being in Clara’s home town in western Norway.

They race off to find them. Clara has some ideas of where to look but dead end after dead end leaves her reeling until there is only one place left to look. When she arrives she gets the shock of her life. Things were so totally not as they seemed. And that is all I can tell you.

This was another excellent Nordic noir thriller by Lillegraven. I will be very keen to see what she writes next. Many thanks to Netgalley and AmazonCrossing for the much appreciated arc which I reviewed voluntarily and honestly.