Blood Ties

Blood Ties

Ruth Lillegraven NORLA Selected

Original title: Av mitt blod
Publisher: Kagge forlag, 2021
Genre: Psychological thriller
Pages: 336 pages

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Betrayal, secrets, revenge, and murder: they’re in the blood in a provocative novel of psychological suspense by the award-winning, internationally bestselling author of Everything Is Mine.

As Norway’s newly appointed minister of justice, child-rights advocate Clara Lofthus has a chance to accomplish something meaningful on behalf of the most vulnerable members of society. It couldn’t be more personal. After her husband’s death, she is the sole caretaker of her twin sons, Andreas and Nikolai. She’s also still haunted by her own traumatic childhood—and the lengths to which she was willing to go to pursue her own brand of vigilante justice. How far? No one ever needs to know. And this is just one of Clara’s secrets.

Then one day, Clara comes home from work to make a terrifying discovery: her sons have been kidnapped. Clara’s search leads to her hometown in Western Norway, where she learns that her mother has been released from the mental hospital she has been living at for the past thirty years. Hot on Clara’s heels is a local reporter, who is every bit as relentless as she is. He’s determined to disrupt Clara’s life even further and will not rest until he exposes the truth about her past.

As the fate of her sons hangs in the balance, the demons of Clara’s past are flushed out of hiding, threatening to come home to roost.

Foreign rights

Arabic (Egypt): Logha
Danish: Grønningen 1
German: List /Ullstein Verlag
World English: Amazon Crossings
Italian: Carbonio Editore
Polish: Wielka Litera and Storytel
Spanish: Maeva
Swedish: Sekwa

Lillegraven wraps the plot in packaging of Biblical dimensions. Nature and nurture, blood and water are just a few key themes. A page turner.

Hardanger Folkeblad

It is liberating to read a thriller written in such riveting prose: crime fiction is also a good fit for the poet Lillegraven …Ruth Lillegraven’s thriller sequel Blood Ties (Av mitt blod) is well-written and charged with momentum.

Dagens Næringsliv

Solid plot, compelling verve, and an ending with a twist … extremely exciting …

Blog: Tine Sundal

Ruth Lillegraven

Ruth Lillegraven debuted in 2005 with a collection of poetry entitled Big Bad Poems. Since then, she has published a novel, eight poetry collections, and a series of children’s books. Her work has been nominated for several prizes and she was awarded, among other distinctions, the Brage Prize and the Nynorsk Literature Prize.

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