Innocent Blood

by Baroness P . D . James (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  2000

  $3.28

  Philippa Palfrey, adopted as a child, believes herself to be the motherless, illegitimate daughter of an aristocratic father. At eighteen she exercises her right to find out the truth. What she discovers will change her life forever. Philippa enters a new and terrifying world and soon comes to realize that she is not the only one interested in her parents' whereabouts. Innocent Blood is both a mystery and a thriller, a superb novel that explores the themes of self-identity and the meaning of life.

• Used

  Paperback
  2001

  $3.28

  Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir. As a crime novel, wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is the peak of the art. Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving, Cosmopolitan concurred.

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $19.04

  Adopted as a child into a privileged family, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying truth about her parents and a long-ago murder is only the first in a series of shocking betrayals. Philippa quickly learns that those who delve into the secrets of the past must be on guard when long-buried horrors begin to stir. As a crime novel, wrote the London Times, Innocent Blood is the peak of the art. Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving, Cosmopolitan concurred.