Eve Duncan 08.0 - Quicksand

Returning from Johansen’s New York Times bestselling thriller, Stalemate, forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still reeling from the disappearance of her daughter, Bonnie. Deciding to take matters into her own hands, she enlists the clairvoyant skills of Dr. Megan Blair to help find her. No strangers to looking for clues where there seem to be none, the two women use their highly specialized talents to hunt down Bonnie’s elusive kidnapper and return her to her mother’s arms. But is Bonnie still alive? Will the two women find her in time? Iris Johansen strikes again with this non-stop, action packed thriller, keeping readers turning pages well into the night. 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. 600,000 first printing. (Apr.) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review “A fast-paced, non-stop, clever plot in which Johansen mixes political intrigue, murder, and suspense.” --_USA__ Today_ on The Face of Deception “[A] thrill ride...Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idaho—what more could Johansen fans want?” --_Publishers Weekly _on Countdown “Intriguing suspense...her new tale will please both fans and new converts.” --_Booklist_ on Blind Alley “Thoroughly gripping and with a number of shocking plot twists...packed all the righ elements into this latest work: intriguing characters; creepy, crazy villain; a variety of exotic locations.” --_New York__ Post_ on The Search Kidnapping,Women sculptors,Clairvoyants,Fiction,Suspense,Duncan; Eve (Fictitious character),Facial reconstruction (Anthropology),Thrillers,Large type books,Espionage Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is still obsessed with finding her daughter, Bonnie. No stranger to looking for clues where there seem to be none, Eve enlists the unique skills of the mysterious Dr. Megan Blair to help bring Bonnie's elusive killer to justice. The tension and danger escalates as Eve and Joe Quinn go on a hunt that can either bring them the revenge and closure that Eve has long sought or the destruction of everything she holds dear.