“I am a huge fan of Iris Johansen and have read all of her books but this one was a little bit of a disappointment. Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn have been the main characters in at least a half-dozen of her books and their storyline never progresses but frustratingly stays in one place. Eve Duncan is constantly (and obsessively) searching for her missing daughter who supposedly died many years ago but her body was never recovered. Eve has an overwhelming desire to bring her daughters body home even when it puts her in harms way, much to the dismay of her ex-Navy SEAL/ex-FBI/current-cop husband Joe. Each book that features them is another chase-down of a possible killer of Eve's daughter, fighting between Eve and Joe about her safety and overwhelming desire to find her daughter, and the eventual dismay that they have not found the right killer or the little girls remains. I just want their story to progress and come to some kind of conclusion. I would like to see Johansen leave their story behind and develop any number of peripheral characters she has introduced to this point, possibly keeping Eve and Joe involved for quest appearances.
Regardless of the side-story romance/relationship between Eve and Joe, Johansen never fails to write an edge-of-your-seat thriller that keeps you flipping pages to find out what happens next! While I wouldn't call her novels hard-to-figure-out mysteries, they are definitely suspenseful and are reminiscent of watching CSI with a little more out in the woods kind of action.
Overall, the relationship plot gets a 1.5 and the suspense story gets a 4.5 for an average of 3.”
Nicole R wrote this review Tuesday, August 26 2008.
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