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Current Danger [Mass Market Paperback]

Marilyn Wallace
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April 6 1999
It starts with a phone call luring her into the night--and before it ends five people will be grotesquely murdered, never knowing why they had to die.

Claudia Miller is a strong and independent woman, a successful general contractor in the tough world of the Manhattan building trade.  But now relatives of her colleagues are being killed, her own family is at risk, and even Claudia herself is being stalked--but by whom?  Someone from her past with a link to them all, someone with a twisted need for revenge.

In Current Danger, veteran writer Marilyn Wallace has created a heart-stopping novel of multiple murder and psychological suspense.  Evil lurks on the menacing streets of New York, disguised as an ordinary man, but which man in Claudia's life could it be?  The young ponytailed writer from California, who literally knocks her off her feet and insinuates himself so insistently into her life?  The seductive Russian entrepreneur with the dangerous aura, who claims to want her business advice?  One of the workers on her current job?  The veteran cop she goes to for help?  Or someone she's never even met?

As time runs out and the stalker closes in, some of the answers become shockingly clear; but not until Claudia's final, face-to-face showdown with her enemy is the full force of his perverted need to see others suffer totally revealed.


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From Publishers Weekly

Wallace, who edits the award-winning Sisters In Crime anthologies, has created a very credible central character for her own seventh novel (after 1996's Lost Angel). Competent, strong and credible, Claudia Miller is an independent building contractor in Manhattan who works off worries about current and future projects by cutting into blocks of marble. Wallace's skill at establishing her main character's powerful presence carries readers a long way into a complicated story of perverse revenge. Unfortunately, however, the plot soon sags into predictability. The relatives of people who worked with Claudia on the renovation of a building on New York's Mercer Street several years earlier are being killed off in ways connected to electricity (e.g., suffocated with electrical tape or electrocuted in various apparent accidents). Her father and young stepbrother are also attacked. Meanwhile, various rogue males who might well be the hotwired killer enter the picture: a strange writer from California; a pushy and sexist union organizer; a new employee very eager to please; a slick Russian entrepreneur. Claudia remains surrounded by a charge of energy, outshining her supporting cast and calling for a stronger vehicle to star in. (Feb).
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

From Library Journal

Murder by electrical tape is the first of several crimes faced by Claudia Miller, a Manhattan building contractor trying to build her reputation and protect her colleagues from a villain who dispatches the relatives of those he hates. It doesn't take long (given the flashbacks helpfully provided by the author) for us to realize that Claudia's face-down of a union organizer earlier in her career and his subsequent death in a suspicious fire are the flashpoints for the killer's psychosis. The murderer might be the charming young man she has bumped into, or perhaps a new member of the work crew. Or could it be the sophisticated and mysterious Mikhail, a possible future client? Unfortunately, this novel fails to rise above the ordinary. Claudia's occupation is an interesting twist on the current trend of nontraditional careers for women detectives, but she is so controlled and insensitive that we cannot develop much sympathy for her. Worse, the identity of the criminal is revealed, not through clues but through his actions. Not a necessary purchase.?Elsa Pendleton, Boeing Info. Svcs., Inc., Ridgecrest, Cal.
Copyright 1998 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

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5.0 out of 5 stars An electrifying suspense novel May 15 2000
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As always, Marilyn Wallace delivers wonderfully written stay-up-all-night suspense with a clever and unique plot and great characters. I truly couldn't put it down and am waiting eagerly for her next book.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling and Suspenseful! May 15 2000
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Marilyn Wallace just keeps getting better. CURRENT DANGER crackles with energy and taut suspense. I couldn't put it down.
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5.0 out of 5 stars lyrical and fast-paced suspense May 15 2000
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Marilyn Wallace writes as well or better than any other author out there! This book has such gorgeous prose I absolutely reveled in it--or would have, if I hadn't been in such a hurry to turn pages. Whew, what a heart-thumping plot! I loved this book, probably my favorite of her books--and that's really saying A LOT!
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