Blythe Books is excited to welcome Florida-based author Cobie LaJeanna to our store on Friday, August 8 from 6-8pm for a book signing. Meet Cobie and learn about her new psychological thriller Blood in the Cradle, available July 25, 2025.

Cobie’s story takes place in the fictional city of Halpin River, a community that drew inspiration from many of the small communities in the Ohio River Valley.

We are so excited to welcome Cobie into the store and the Pittsburgh area to meet fans. Books will be available to purchase at the event, and a link to preorder will be available soon.

This event is free to attend and open to the public.

A presale link for Blood in the Cradle will be available soon on our website to order prior to the event.

Blood in the Cradle Synopsis:

It’s a case every detective dreads—the one that forces them to confront their traumatic past.

When decorated detective Chloe Van Belle receives a call about a severed limb in a fountain, she dreads returning to Encounters, a renowned angel-worshipping church tied to her dark childhood wounds. She’s further shocked to learn six-year-old Lillian vanished from the congregation without being reported.

Chloe’s half-sister Rosie, a devout believer engaged to the reverend’s son, remains unwavering that everything unfolds according to divine will, refusing to see the evil in front of her.

An eerie search leads to Lillian’s body tucked in a cradle with a vintage watch, linking the crime to a similar murder twenty years ago. The gruesome scene triggers Chloe’s morbid fascination with death, making her visual-gustatory synesthesia, which gives murder a literal sweet taste, harder to hide. With Chloe’s nightmares and half-memories resurfacing, she engages in a macabre game of cat and mouse with the killer.

As casualties grow and evidence points to the highest levels of the church leadership, Chloe must protect Rosie and her team—but is it from a monster or herself?

A must-read for fans of Alex Marwood’s The Poison Garden and Tana French’s In the Woods!