In Golden Blood

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name = In Golden Blood
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image_caption = 2005 paperback
author = Stephen Woodworth
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country = United States
language = English
series = Violets
genre = Science fiction/Crime novel
publisher = Dell
release_date = October 25, 2005
media_type = Print (Paperback)
pages = 336 pp
isbn = ISBN 0-440-24252-5
preceded_by = With Red Hands
followed_by = From Black Rooms

"In Golden Blood" is the third science-fiction alternate history novel by Stephen Woodworth featuring the "Violet" detective Natalie Lindstrom. It was written in 2005, and won First Place in the Writers of the Future Contest.

Plot summary

Natalie Lindstrom has a gift: the power to speak to the dead, to solve crimes by interviewing murder victims. But now Natalie wants to escape. Escape from the voices that fill her head. Escape from the organization that has used her as a crime-solving tool...and now wants to recruit her daughter. So Natalie takes a job as far from crime and punishment as she can get: with an archaeologist in the mountains of Peru. Her job: to find a trove of priceless artifacts — by channeling those who lived and died at an ancient Incan site.

But in the towering Andes, Natalie enters a 500-year-old storm of betrayal, murder, greed, and rage — and she cannot silence the voices of the dead. The slaughtered reach out to her. The slaughterers boast of their crimes. Alone, cut off from her family, Natalie faces a chilling realization: every truth she uncovers is leading her one step closer to a terror beyond imagining. ( [http://www.amazon.com/dp/0440242525 1] )