Trail of Blood by Lisa Black

A forensic examiner Theresa MacLean teams with her cousin homicide detective Frank Patrick to investigate a 75 year-old murder soon linked to a current killing. Although unlikely to be the same serial killer over such a span of time, both murders and more that follow seem to have the same modus operandi of dismemberment and display of the body pieces.

Interwoven with family tensions, romantic tangents, and professional ethics or the bending thereof, the author writes a compelling and deviant tale of mystery among well-explored characters. We feel we know their likes and dislikes from food, to pets, to occupations. We see into their frailties and wish to know them better. We have opportunity to do so in other Theresa MacLean novels. -Micki K.