BLOOD KIN

Relocated Cajun Nicolas "Po" Villere and his more respectable partner, Tess Grey, are tossed into a mission to rescue Po’s ex-lover and her son from a brutally misogynistic commune in Portland, Maine.

Time was when Po and Elspeth Fuchs were closer than close. But in the 10 years since Elspeth broke it off with him, Po hasn’t seen her—until their unexpected reunion is witnessed by Tess, who’s not pleased by what looks like billing and cooing to her. Realizing that his former lover is in some kind of trouble, Po manages to slip her a business card identifying Tess as a licensed private eye. Unfortunately, a meeting in which Elspeth says her abusive husband, Caleb Moorcock, has been following her ends abruptly when Tess’ pointed question about which of her beaux might have fathered Elspeth’s 10-year-old son, Jacob, leads Elspeth to take the boy, stalk out, and head on down the road, from which the two are promptly grabbed by Caleb and his pal Jeremy Decker and spirited out of Portland to the cultish commune presided over by Caleb’s father, Eldon Moorcock. Po’s initial reconnaissance of the place turns into a rescue attempt that not only fails to free Elspeth, but plunges her into even hotter water with the Moorcocks. So Po, Tess, and their buddy Pinky Leclerc mount a more determined effort to free Elspeth. There are complications this time, too, but nothing that will upset or surprise fans of the franchise.

Not up to much, this.