From Publishers Weekly
The action-packed 12th installment in bestseller Johansen's saga featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan (after
Stalemate) is also a sequel of sorts to
Pandora's Daughter, which chronicled the life of Megan Blair, an Atlanta physician with burgeoning psychic abilities. Intertwining the two disparate story lines intensifies both, as Johansen pits her two courageous female protagonists against a vicious serial killer who claims to have murdered Eve's seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie, years earlier. When Eve's love interest, Atlanta police lieutenant Joe Quinn, tracks down elusive child predator Henry Kistle to a small town in Illinois, Quinn alerts the local authorities and sets off a series of bloody events that lead Eve and Megan Blair to a remote area in the Okefenokee swamp where they'll either discover the whereabouts of Bonnie's body—or come face-to-face with a psychopath bent on killing and burying them all in unmarked graves. The adrenaline-fueled narrative will keep Johansen fans eagerly turning the pages.
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From AudioFile
Iris Johansen's twelfth novel featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan provides heavy doses of action and emotion mixed with a light dash of the paranormal as a serial child-killer pulls Eve into his grip, hinting that he will lead her to the remains of her young daughter, murdered a decade earlier. Jennifer Van Dyck maintains the necessary ferocity to bring the novel to life. Her rendering of Johansen's dialogue is perfectly paced and effectively differentiates the characters, although two male characters are interpreted awkwardly. Luis Montalvo sounds more like Bela Lugosi than a Colombian arms dealer, and his playful henchman, Miguel Vicente, comes across cartoonish. These two characters aside, Van Dyck's reading is smooth, euphonic, and emotionally powerful. S.E.S. © AudioFile 2008, Portland, Maine--
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