A review by nonna7
Blood at the Root by Peter Robinson

5.0

To say I am a fan of Peter Robinson is putting it mildly. As I continue to catch up with the older books in the series, I continue to be impressed by his writing. It's interesting that this was published in 1998. It's post Thatcher Great Britain where the industrial jobs are gone, and frustration takes on an ugly anti immigrant flavor by native white Brits. Unfortunately many of them can't distinguish between someone who is native born vs an actual immigrant, not that it matters. When a young man is found brutally murdered and disfigured, it is soon apparent that there is far more to this case than meets the eye. It turns out that the murdered young man had a sordid past that his family didn't even know about, a life of racial hatred and association with a group advocating racial purity. It's really a chilling book, and is amazingly prescient.