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Distant Blood

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I just couldn't get enough of this Jordan Poteet series, and even though I was dissapointed that it seems to have ended with "Distant Blood"; I look forward to the next closet sleuth I'm sure Abbott will create. All four of his novels left me wanting MORE MORE MORE!

Every Jordy Poteet novel leaves me wanting more. I come from a Oklahoma/Arkansas family, and the speech patterns and family relationships are very familiar and comfortable to me. Why hasn't there been another book? Come on, I want to know what happens next! I'm getting homesick for Mirabeau, Texas.

Once started, Jeff Abbott's four Jordan Poteet novels are almost impossible to put down. They are extremely entertaining reading, with totally believable characters and plots. I love finding a new mystery series that's so good you ration your reading time and feel somewhat dismal until amazon.com announces the newest book. Come on Jeff....we're all waiting impatiently!!!

this book.

In the series of 4 books, Jordan Poteet returns from a good job in Boston to small town Texas because his mother has Alzheimers. His sister needs help with her.

The first three books follow Jordan as he becomes involved in various mysteries. They are fun to read even if Jordan himself is often not the most likable character around.

This book wasn't even close to the first three. It was dark, depressing, and the ending was absolutely the worst. Don't look for happily ever after here, folks.

For Kindle readers, there were many typos which made reading it that much more difficult. In fact, the only reason I did finish it was that I had invested time in reading the first three and wanted to know how it all ended. I should have stopped while I was ahead.

You know, I fell in love with this character and the people in his world back in Do Unto Others, and I was really looking forward to watching Jordy get his act together with this father, his marrying that girl of his, his sister marrying the sherriff...to all the trouble Jordy was going to find to get into and solve in that tiny little town of his.

Instead, Jeff Abbott leaves us all hanging at the end of Distant Blood.

I'm kinda mad.

I don't want the excursioning in this curious little world of Jordy Poteet's to end. And I especially don't want it to end like this.

It's a mark of solid writing when someone who reads as many books as I do is this reluctant to move on to something new. Well done, sirrah.

The man is a wonder to read,more please and faster!!!!!!!!!!

Jordy Poteet's newly-discovered father, Bob Don Goertz, invites him to a family reunion on an island off the Texas coast. Jordy does not want to acknowledge Bob Don, let alone the rest of his extended family. However, his girlfriend Candace convinces him that he owes his father the respect of going and that he needs to get to know his biological family. Jordy goes grudgingly, and begins to think he made a mistake, when his new family begins to argue and snipe at one another and at him. One of his relatives shows up dead under suspicious circumstances and Jordy notices how eager some of them are to blame it on natural causes or suicide. As time passes, Jordy begins to learn family secrets which have been kept quiet for years. He feels certain that one of the family is the murderer, but the family lies and deceptions seem to have created a number of people who had motive and opportunity. This is the most powerful book yet, in the wonderful Jordan Poteet Series. Abbott paints wonderful word pictures and creates totally believable, if malevolent, characters. This book is highly recommended!

As a professional librarian I am always excited to find books that have librarians as main characters. Jordy and his family are quirky and as interesting as they come. The twists and turns in this book kept me reading much longer than my allotted time for lunch break

Distant Blood is the fourth in Abbott's delicious Jordy Poteet series. They are like reading candy -- addictive, leaving me craving for more. I found this series two years ago and have been waiting for new installments. Now, five minutes after finishing this one, I'm craving the next and fearing he won't write any more.

This book is wonderful, continuing the story set forth in the earleir novels,while managing to add new, engaging characters who you, as the reader, never quite know whether to love or turn in under suspicion of murder!

This is truly a bizarre book. The previous entries in this series are mostly "G" rated romps/mysteries revolving around Jordan Poteet, a small town librarian in Texas who stumbles into capers much like Barney Fife, with minimal violence, swearing, etc. In this book Jordan is invited by his newly discovered biological father to a family "reunion" on a somewhat remote island off the coast of Texas. With some trepidation and his girlfriend, Jordan makes the trip and the farce begins.

Upon his arrival Jordan learns there is a significant inheritance at stake in his "new" family, (who all consume copious amounts of alcohol), and there are "secrets" that everyone seems to be aware of except for poor Jordan. When one of his new found relatives dies at the dinner table Jordan realizes that this reunion has become more than he bargained for but the truth must be uncovered... by him. The book then turns into a bad reality TV show with accusations and fur flying.

The "mystery" is eventually solved but what is clear by the end of the book is that "nothing is the same" anymore for Jordan. In hindsight the author has at the very least put this series on hiatus, (how many life and death situations can a small town librarian stumble across?), and maybe this was his way of "killing off" his protagonist without actually doing it. If you enjoyed the previous books in this series I'm not sure you'll like this one.