New York City Medical Examiner Edward Jenner thought he’d got out, turning his back forever on forensics after the nightmare of 9/11. But then the students started turning up dead, their bodies forced into bizarre poses, and Jenner is dragged back onto the city's dark streets in a nightmare race against the clock — and the twisted imagination of a psychopath. College sophomore Ana DeJong survived the attack that killed her roommate; she thought she’d escaped, but the killer has other plans…
PRECIOUS BLOOD • HARPER COLLINS
Mystery Guild Book Club alternate selection, December 2007
Books on Tape audiobook release 2007
UK, German, Swedish, Italian, Dutch editions 2008
PRAISE FOR JONATHAN HAYES AND PRECIOUS BLOOD
“A nail-biting masterpiece…” —USA Today
“One of New York’s hottest authors!” —New York Post
“Precious Blood is a brilliant debut… an intelligent thriller that takes you down the meanest streets, peopled by complex characters, pacing that doesn’t let up until you’ve turned the last page, and dialogue that crackles and cuts to the bone.”
— Linda Fairstein,
author of the New York Times bestsellers Bad Blood and Death Dance
“Taut and chilling… a fast-paced thriller written by a real player in the game of forensic sleuthing.”
— Kathy Reichs,
author of the New York Times bestseller Deja Dead and Bones to Ashes
“Precious Blood is a dark, hard-boiled procedural that soars.”
—Oline Cogdil,
The Sun-Sentinal
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Jonathan Hayes, a veteran New York City forensic pathologist, is a writer whose work appears regularly in the New York Times, GQ, New York, and other magazines. PRECIOUS BLOOD, is his first novel; look for the sequel, A HARD DEATH, in stores 2009