[Robert Payne 01] • First Blood

"GORMAN'S WRITING IS STRONG, FAST AND SLEEK AS A BULLET. HE'S ONE OF THE BEST." DEAN KOONTZ" An expertly wrought atmospheric thriller featuring modern psychological crime fighting by a winning detective." - Publisher's Weekly New Hope, Iowa. The kind of small town that restores a hardened FBI agent's faith in America. But when mysteriously seductive Nora Connors gives Robert Payne $25,000 to find the maniac who brutally killed her young daughter, he uncovers this close-knit community's most sordid secrets. "In Blood Moon, Ed Gorman strikes with a startling crime and a resounding finale." - St. Louis Post-Dispatch