In Their Blood by Sharon Potts

Jeremy Stroeb has left college and his upper middle class family in Miami to backpack across Europe and decide what he wants to do with the rest of his life.  When his parents are murdered he flies home, planning a short stay and then back to his nomadic lifestyle.   He is astonished to find that he is named guardian of his sixteen year old sister. 

Jeremy believes he can find whoever killed his parents by insinuating himself in their worlds.  He joins his mother’s accounting firm as an intern and registers for classes at the university where his father taught.   His plan works a little too well and he learns things about his parents that he ultimately wishs he had not.   In the end he finds that he is closer to his parents after death than he had been in life. 

This is Sharon Potts’ first novel and it’s a very readable book with a good plot and an exciting ending.

Karen – Fort Mill                  ISBN   9781933515625