*Today I'm on the blog tour for the fabulous, Blood Song (Roy & Castells #3) by Johana Gustawsson. I found the story totally gripping and it's one of my favourite books this year.
Spain, 1938: The country is wracked by civil war, and as Valencia falls to Franco’s brutal dictatorship, Republican Therese witnesses the murders of her family. Captured and sent to the notorious Las Ventas women’s prison, Therese gives birth to a daughter who is forcibly taken from her.
Falkenberg, Sweden, 2016: A wealthy family is found savagely murdered in their luxurious home. Discovering that her parents have been slaughtered, Aliénor Lindbergh, a new recruit to the UK’s Scotland Yard, rushes back to Sweden and finds her hometown rocked by the massacre.
Falkenberg, Sweden, 2016: A wealthy family is found savagely murdered in their luxurious home. Discovering that her parents have been slaughtered, Aliénor Lindbergh, a new recruit to the UK’s Scotland Yard, rushes back to Sweden and finds her hometown rocked by the massacre.
Profiler Emily Roy joins forces with Aliénor and soon finds herself on the trail of a monstrous and prolific killer. Little does she realise that this killer is about to change the life of her colleague, true-crime writer Alexis Castells. Joining forces once again, Roy and Castells’ investigation takes them from the Swedish fertility clinics of the present day back to the terror of Franco’s rule, and the horrifying events that took place in Spanish orphanages under its rule.
Terrifying, vivid and recounted at breakneck speed, Blood Song is not only a riveting thriller and an examination of corruption in the fertility industry, but a shocking reminder of the atrocities of Spain’s dictatorship, in the latest, stunning instalment in the award-winning Roy & Castells series.
My thoughts?
The Lindbergh family, who ran a fertility clinic are found murdered in the most barbaric way and it's up to profiler, Emily Roy along with crime writer, Alexis Castells to investigate. Emily's intern Alienor is keen to stay on the case even though it's her family who have been brutally murdered..
In Franco's 1930s Spain we learn of the persecution of ordinary people who are only sticking up for what they believe in. Families are torn apart, with babies taken from their families, fathers shot and mother incarcerated in prisons. We follow a woman, Therese who watches her family being brutally murdered. She is a huge link to the part of the story set in the present day.
I for one just couldn't put this book down - the story gripped me totally and I couldn't rest until I'd finished it. I loved how cleverly the past and the present were intertwined. It's one of my favourite reads this year.
Thanks for the Blog Tour support Sandra x
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