title: Blood Kin: A Novel
author:  Ceridwen Dovey 
description: "A precise and terrifying debut novel." <br>-<i>The New York Times Book Review</i><br><br> "Dovey's surgical prose and cool apprehension of the machinations of ambition and lust make her a writer to watch." <br>-<i>O, The Oprah Magazine</i><br><br> "Taut and remarkably self-assured first novel . . . there's a knowing sensuality to the novel's sparsely lyric passages." <br>-<i>Los Angeles Times</i>
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  _A Conversation in Blood_ is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and
  incidents either are the products of the author’s imagination or are used
  fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or
  locales is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  Copyright © 2017 by Paul S. Kemp
  
  
  All rights reserved.
  
  
  Published in the United States by Del Rey, an imprint of Random House, a
  division of Penguin Random House LLC, New York.
  
  
  DEL REY and the HOUSE colophon are registered trademarks of Penguin Random
  House LLC.
  
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  
  Names: Kemp, Paul S. (Paul Stuart) author.
  
  
  Title: A conversation in blood: a tale of Egil & Nix / Paul S. Kemp.
  
  
  