Publisher's Weekly Review
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.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Booklist Review
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is consumed with the prolonged search for the body of her daughter, Bonnie. The man in her life, Atlanta detective and former navy SEAL Joe Quinn, questions whether or not he can continue his relationship with Eve as the specter of Bonnie continues to haunt them. At one of their most trying times, Joe pursues a lead that may either solve the mystery or destroy their relationship. Add the pressure of child killer Henry Kistle focusing on Eve and drug lord Montalvo, from Stalemate (2007), whose desire to help is fueled by his desire for Eve, and things get complicated. Kistle taunts Eve with phone calls and written statements as he uses his military training to lead Joe, Montalvo, and the FBI on a chase from remote Bloomberg, Illinois, to alligator-infested swamps. Eve needs more help, so Johansen reaches back to Pandora's Daughter (2007) and brings in psychic Megan Blair. Keeping the tension high and the pace relentless, prolific and compelling Johansen adds depth to her popular characters as she continues this suspenseful series.--Engelmann, Patty Copyright 2007 Booklist
Library Journal Review
One book later, sculptor Eve Duncan (Stalemate) is still after her daughter's killer. With a one-day laydown on April 22. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
