Blood in the Water is a crime novel by Gillian Galbraith. Published in 2007, it is the first of the Alice Rice Mysteries. The protagonist of the series is Alice Rice, a police detective in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Blood in the Water is followed by Where the Shadow Falls (2008), Dying of the Light (2009), and No Sorrow to Die (2010).
Famous quotes containing the words blood and/or water:
“Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the
Light—
The marrow in the bone
We dreamed was safe . . . the blood in the veins, the
sap in the tree
Were springs of Deity.”
—Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)
“The favor of a drop of water should be repaid as an overflowing spring.”
—Chinese proverb.