The Blood Doctor: A Novel
by Barbara Vine

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Book Review: "Themes of obsession and murder"
Summary: 2 Stars

I agree that at 370 pages, the book is too long, but other reviewers have not noted these two additional facts: it takes forever to get the unveiling of the mystery started, and when it does start, I guessed what the secret was long, long before our hapless narrator does. Both these facts made me restive.

I suppose the themes of the House of Lords, and of Martin and Jude's problem, are brought in to weave additional symbolism about "blood" and inheritance; but both become wearisome.

And no one, even the ever-reflective Martin Nanther, notes that the creation of "designer babies" poses in its way another question of killing.

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