Sacrifice and Awakening by S J Bolton

I just came across Sacrifice and then Awakening by S J Bolton and thoroughly enjoyed both of them. They are dark, involving human sacrifice and snake handling pentecostal cults.
The protagonists and also to some extent past and present victims are both women. One a
doctor and the other a veterinarian. Neither is for the descriptive weak of heart. It
helped me that I grew up with a grandfather for whom the first CSI lab was built and who had
books with full colored pictures of victims of gun shoot wounds (his specialty) and have
a daughter who is a veterinarian and so have been the recipient of books like "The Book of
Bodily Fluids" and a by stander in an equine necropsy.

But if just reading about these things does not both you. You will probably enjoy her books.
I am looking forward to the next one.

Eliza