{"product_id":"beauty-in-the-blood-a-novel","title":"Beauty In The Blood: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003eA curse rolls out over centuries, murky and unknowable as swamp waters, shaping and destroying lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“Carter delivers. . . . [A] fusion of detective fiction and horror that is impossible to look away from.” —The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSarah Toomey is a successful young black lawyer, lovely but straitlaced– and afraid that she is losing her mind. Since the death of her mother, a force she can neither understand nor control is manipulating her memory and driving her to unexplained acts of violence and destruction. At the same time, Sarah is swept up in a highly charged relationship with a work colleague that portends a danger of its own. As she moves through her privileged life in New York, Sarah comes to learn how her past—her haunted history—is intertwined with America’s.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYvonne Howard was born into the working class. Now, after years as a prison guard, she has reinvented herself. Her passion for cooking has landed her a position at a trendy soul food restaurant, and she is looking forward to a glamorous career. Then an ex-inmate named Bitty appears, demanding Yvonne’s help investigating her brother’s shocking death. Before long, Bitty too is dead, and Yvonne is pulled back into a world of ugly violence. Smart but unschooled, Yvonne finds herself in the unlikely role of detective: it is she who must unravel the dark and blood-soaked history that not only doomed Bitty and her brother, but also determined beautiful Sarah Toomey’s fate.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45073722179763,"sku":"9780593467282","price":799.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/811O-1vX3_L.jpg?v=1762874761","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/beauty-in-the-blood-a-novel","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}