Blood Up North
Fredrick Soukup
(Author)
Description
What if your survival depended on the villainy you long despised?
Sister and brother. A loyalty forged in the crucible of their tragic upbringing in the Northwoods town of Backus, Minnesota. Cass, a quiet young woman caring for the grandmother who raised them. Jack, a fugitive carrying a life-changing sum of stolen drug money.
Desperate, trusting only his sister, Jack enlists her help in burying the cash in their grandmother's back acres. Cass agrees to the scheme, a decision that soon endangers not only her unassuming backwoods existence, but both of their lives.
Jack returns to hiding, and Cass learns of the bounty placed on his head, as the cast of characters in their orbit-some villains, some saviors, some perhaps both-emerges. Their corrupt cop uncle and lawless cousins. Their father, a violent, conniving career criminal whom the siblings blame for their mother's unsolved murder many years ago. Claiming reformation, he pledges to ensure her and Jack's safety.
Bowed by the burdens of her love for Jack, haunted by a past that seems poised to repeat itself, Cass realizes that her survival may depend on her own measure of wickedness.
Product Details
| Publisher | Vine Leaves Press |
| Publish Date | February 15, 2022 |
| Pages | 224 |
| Language | English |
| Type |  Paperback / softback |
| EAN/UPC | 9781925965803 |
| Dimensions | 8.5 X 5.5 X 0.6 inches | 0.5 pounds |
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Reviews
"Blood Up North reads like a runaway freight train straight out of a Coen Brothers movie. Soukup delivers a rush on every page. A riveting rollercoaster ride of a novel." Steve Zettler, author of Careless Love
"Set in the dead of winter in rural Minnesota, Blood Up North centers on a tight but untrustworthy family all pitted against each other in hopes of revealing past secrets and a stolen stash of money. Soukup's dark and creepy characters lie, steal, abuse, and occasionally love. This chilling and smart novel is part mystery, part family drama, and all about the struggles of living in an unforgiving climate encased in a cold and harsh family of deceit. Beautifully written and engaging until the last word." Raki Kopernik, author of The Things You Left and The Memory House
"Fredrick Soukup's thriller, set in the frigid, unforgiving winter of Minnesota's Northwoods, tells the tragic tale of generations torn apart by drug addiction, poverty, and violence. Soukup's sharply drawn characters and stark landscape descriptions draw you in as the novel's scrappy protagonist Cass, a girl of nineteen, on a quest to uncover the truth, tries to fight her way out of the doomed life she's born into." Janet Goldberg, author of The Proprietor's Song
"Soukup spins a cold, bitter tale of family secrets and terrible truths set in a world that erupts with sudden violence and tenderness in equal measure. Throw on your parka and enjoy the ride!" Dan Kopcow, author of Prior Futures
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