A wild ride exploring a fractured spirit and a community that must pay for their sins, Blood Atonement (or Freedman) imagines what Sybil would have been like if she were raised in a cult.
Tanya Eby, USA Today bestselling author
The Handmaid’s Tale meets All about Eve in this dark and disturbing thriller about a polygamist cult and the children who sought to escape it. At once riveting and heartbreaking, Freedman provides readers with both characters and an ending they won’t soon forget.
C.S. O’Cinneide, Edgar-nominated author of the Candace Starr Crime Series
A wild ride exploring a fractured spirit and a community that must pay for their sins.
Tanya Eby, USA Today bestselling author
The Handmaid’s Tale meets All about Eve in this dark and disturbing thriller about a polygamist cult and the children who sought to escape it. At once riveting and heartbreaking, Freedman provides readers with both characters and an ending they won’t soon forget.
C.S. O’Cinneide, Edgar-nominated author of the Candace Starr series
S.M. Freedman keeps the reader guessing and the pages turning in Blood Atonement, a dark and poignant psychological thriller/procedural with a cult backdrop. Freedman grips right out of the gate with dual timeline narratives that weave together more and more tightly until they meld into a mind-bending twist of a climax.
Loreth Anne White, bestselling author of The Patient’s Secret
Past wounds and present danger twist together in this dark, propulsive tale that will grip you long into the night. A bloody good book with a heart-rattling end.
Eddy Boudel Tan, author of The Rebellious Tide
S.M. Freedman is a master of psychological suspense.
Sam Wiebe, award-winning author of Hell and Gone
Visceral prose matches emotional, compelling storytelling in this heart-wrenching thriller inspired by real events.
Globe and Mail