Blood Will Tell

by April Henry
Lexile:  680
Genre:  Mystery

Nick Walker is an active member of his community's SAR (search and rescue) team.  He is learning all about the proper ways to gather evidence while investigating in an active crime scene.  Then a body is found in the woods near his home.  Almost overnight, Nick goes from a volunteer investigator to a murder suspect.  The police aren't buying his story about where he was that night, so it will be up to him and his SAR friends to prove that they have the wrong suspect.


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