Jessica Housand

Author of BLOOD GILT | Literary crime • family crime saga | Book, ARC & media information ↓ |

[Jessica Housand @JessicaHousand]

Review: Blood Gilt by Jessica Housand https://t.co/imncKvIpPx

[Jessica Housand @JessicaHousand]

Meet the author: Jessica Housand https://t.co/Tt3bE4lNME

[Jessica Housand @JessicaHousand]

@MiriamSmith95 Sure. Send me a message if you would like or ask away here.

[Jessica Housand @JessicaHousand]

Review: Blood Gilt by Jessica Housand https://t.co/imncKvIpPx

[Jessica Housand @JessicaHousand]

@MiriamSmith95 Hi Miriam, thanks for your interest! Crime Fiction Lover just posted an interview that answers this question here: https://t.co/Tt3bE4lNME

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New today - we meet debut crime fiction author @JessicaHousand to talk about her new novel, Blood Gilt. It's narco noir and more, with a literary vibe and some huge themes. Plus, it's the first book we've seen at CFL that's set in El Salvador.
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[Jessica Housand @JessicaHousand]

Meet the author: Jessica Housand https://t.co/Tt3bE4lNME

[Jessica Housand @JessicaHousand]

“Alejandro carries this book from beginning to end.” — Likely Story

A new review of Blood Gilt looks beyond the cartel conflict to trauma, identity, family, and whether someone raised in violence can ever truly choose a different life.

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#BloodGilt #CrimeFiction

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“Vividly textured, vibrant with violence, riveting with urgency, poignant with loss. A remarkable achievement.”

—Mark Spencer, author & recipient of the Faulkner Society Faulkner Award for the Novel, on Blood Gilt ★★★★★
#BloodGilt #CrimeFiction

[Frank Scozzari @ScozzariFrank]

The primary duty of literature is to tell the truth about ourselves by telling us lies about people who never existed.
—Stephen King—

[Jessica Housand @JessicaHousand]

“Vividly textured, vibrant with violence, riveting with urgency, poignant with loss. A remarkable achievement.”

—Mark Spencer, author & recipient of the Faulkner Society Faulkner Award for the Novel, on Blood Gilt ★★★★★
#BloodGilt #CrimeFiction

[CrimeFictionLover @CriFiLover]

🖤♥️🖤We love to support emerging indie crime authors here at Crime Fiction Lover, so this week we’ve been spreading the word about @JessicaHousand’s first crime novel – Blood Gilt. Here’s what we think will thrill readers:
✅The unique setting of El Salvador
✅A complex setup full of family loyalty, manipulation and deceit
✅An equally complex protagonist
✅A fresh take on the narco empire novel
✅All the action and suspense you can handle
👀Watch for our interview with the author, coming soon to the site, but in the meantime, check out the novel here: https://t.co/Zgu69lC93s

[CrimeFictionLover @CriFiLover]

It’s a while since I’ve seen a thriller with a setup quite so elaborate and quite so deadly as that found in @JessicaHousand’s debut crime novel, Blood Gilt. It's gripping stuff!

She’s really putting her protagonist Alejandro Santiago through the wringer. His father is the US arm of a narco operation, his mother a revolutionary back in El Salvador, his brother expects to inherit the crime empire, his sister is married to a cop and his girlfriend… well, she might have been flipped by the FBI. Everything he tries to get out of his father’s crime empire seems to drag him closer to its centre.

So, where will his loyalties finally lie? Find out here: https://t.co/Zgu69lC93s

[Jessica Housand @JessicaHousand]

I wrote Blood Gilt so the prose changes with Alejandro’s state of mind—controlled when he is, expanding as obsession and trauma take over, contracting when violence hits.

A dark literary crime novel about family, power, violence, and a man with a dangerous blind spot for himself.

Literary Titan Gold Book Award
3-day flash sale: $4.99 ebook / $9.99 paperback

[Jessica Housand @JessicaHousand]

@MNGrenside Thank you! I appreciate it very much!

[Jessica Housand @JessicaHousand]

The novel Blood Gilt has received the Literary Titan Gold Book Award, following its 5-star review.

A dark story of family, power, inheritance and divided loyalties—where the forces that shape us also shape the choices available to us.

#BloodGilt #LiteraryFiction #CrimeFiction

[CrimeFictionLover @CriFiLover]

Maybe you’ve read The Godfather, watched Scarface or enjoyed a crime syndicate thriller by Dennis Lehane or Don Winslow. Now rack up Blood Gilt, a deadly international crime thriller imaginatively created by new author @JessicaHousand.

The setting is post-war El Salvador and the book focuses on Alejandro Whitmore Santiago. His father fronts a smuggling empire. His mother is a Salvadoran revolutionary. His sister is married to a cop. His lover might be an FBI informant. And his brother expects to inherit the crime syndicate. Alejandro is going be pulled in every direction when his father sends him in to fix things in El Salvador from their Florida base…

Find out more: https://t.co/Zgu69lC93s

[CrimeFictionLover @CriFiLover]

🇸🇻El Salvador rarely appears as a setting in crime novels, so it makes @JessicaHousand’s debut, Blood Gilt, a unique pick in the genre.

Her protagonist, Alejandro Santiago, was taken from the country as a child to live with his father in Florida. But his dad, Jared, has kept up his Salvadoran connections and is now running a smuggling ring. 16 years have passed, and now those connections are under threat, so he sends Alejandro back to the country of his birth to corrupt a cop, but it’s going to be tricky. For a start, his mother is a powerful politician there and wants him to continue her revolution…

An international crime thriller, a family drama, loyalty, betrayal and survival. Blood Gilt is out now. https://t.co/Zgu69lC93s

[CrimeFictionLover @CriFiLover]

It's FRIDAY! Time for some new crime fiction releases, including titles by Martin Limón, Jessica Housand, @OllyJarviso, @LivConstantine2, @ninaksimo and David Weir 📚
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