Bitter Blood: A True Story of
Southern Family Pride, Madness, and
Multiple Murder (Onyx) by Jerry
Bledsoe
Simply The Best
In this unrelenting real-life drama of three wealthy families connected by
marriage and murder, Bledsoe recounts the shocking events, obsessive
love, and bitter custody battles that led toward the bloody climax that took
nine lives. Reissued to coincide with Bledsoes new hardcover Blood
Games (11/91).
Personal Review: Bitter Blood: A True Story of Southern Family
Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder (Onyx) by Jerry Bledsoe
A woman named Delores Lynch and her unmarried, forty-year-old
daughter are murdered, and to the police it looks like a professional hit.
The heir to the woman's substantial estate is her sole remaining child, a
son named Tom who has financial problems because of an acrimonious

divorce and an ongoing child custody battle. The police soon eliminate
Tom as a suspect, and the case goes cold.
Next, the author opens up a new section of "Bitter Blood" concerning the
history of two Southern families: the Sharps; and the Newsoms. Some
readers might get bored and give up as the families intermarry, multiply,
and move slowly through the first decades of the twentieth century.
They shouldn't throw in the towel so quickly. A granddaughter of the Sharp
and Newsom families marries the son of Delores Lynch, the woman who
was murdered in the opening chapter, and slowly, inexorably the different
sections of this book click into place. The reader sees the doom marching
steadily toward Delores and her daughter, as Tom's marriage to Susie
Sharp disintegrates and the spoiled Southern beauty takes their two sons
and flees back into the welcoming arms of her family.
I've never read a true murder mystery where the ultimate horror upon
horror became inevitable once the reader was acquainted with the
characters. The victims could not escape their fate because it was in their
blood. There were no random victims as murder followed upon murder
into a grisly climax that no one seemed able to prevent, even though the
identities of the murderers were known.
"Bitter Blood" is a carefully-crafted, utterly absorbing mystery on par with
"In Cold Blood" and "The Onion Field."
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