Blood Atonement, S.M. Freedman
Blood Atonement, S.M. Freedman
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Blood Atonement

Author: S.M. Freedman

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Unabridged: 8 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/18/2022


Synopsis

In a riveting psychological thriller for fans of Lisa Unger and Karin Slaughter, Grace's healing solitude is shattered when she becomes a suspect in a gruesome series of murders.

Grace DeRoche escaped the fundamentalist Mormon compound of Brigham and worked to prosecute its leaders. But when loyalists, including her own family, commit mass suicide to avoid jail, Grace retreats into solitude. Racked with guilt and suffering from dissociative identity disorder brought on by childhood abuse, Grace's life is fragmented and full of blind spots. Dissociative triggers are everywhere, and she never knows when an alter personality will take the reins.

When other Brigham escapees die under suspicious circumstances, Grace's tenuous hold on reality crumbles. Notes left at each scene quote scripture and accuse the deceased of committing sins so grievous that atonement can only be achieved through the spilling of blood. As evidence mounts against her and one of her alter personalities becomes the prime suspect, Grace must determine if she's a murderer . . . or the next victim.

Contains mature themes.

About S.M. Freedman

S. M. Freedman is the author of The Faithful and Impact Winter. She studied at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and worked as a private investigator on the not-so-mean streets of Vancouver, where she lives with her husband and two children.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Rosh

In a Nutshell: Strongly plotted, nicely written, emotionally hardhitting. Has minor flaws, but overall, a must-read. Story Synopsis: Grace DeRoche lives a life of solitude with her service dog, her goats and her pottery, trying to move on from her earlier years as a member of a Fundamentalist LDS sec......more

Grace DeRoche suffers from dissociative identity disorder after escaping childhood abuse at the hands of the Fundamentalist Mormon Church. When other escapees die under suspicious circumstances, one of her alter personalities is the prime suspect. As evidence mounts against her, Grace must determine......more

Thank you to my friend Pink for putting this one on my radar with her banger alert review. Grace and nine other children escape a FLSD compound in Canada and become known as the Brigham 10. In order to help herself cope with the trauma she endured, she develops dissociative identity disorder. Many y......more