A Book I Loved

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	• Blind Alley (An Eve Duncan Forensics Thriller) Iris Johansen Bantam, 2004 - 352 pages view larger image
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A Book I Loved

I have read all of Iris Johansen's novels and loved them all, but the Eve Duncan novels were always my favorites; one of the reasons is because of her fiercly independent adopted daughter Jane. Blind Alley is a story devoted to Jane. It is a book that combines Johansen's usual mystery and intrigue but is better because of Jane's independence and effort to find her own place. Blind Alley also concludes without leaving you hanging while promising more.

Blind Alley

Awesome Awesome book, I couldn't put it down and I have already started the next one,Count Down. I love the series with Joe, Eve and Jane. I hope you never stop writting them. I have read everyone of them and just wait for the next to come out. I can't put the books down when I start them and I hate when I have to and pick it back up the miniute I have a second to read. Thank you for writting this series, please keep going. I also have 4 freinds reading them too. Thanks so much for your talent as an author. t.case

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If someone is ever thought of, or accused of being a reincarnation, it is freaky. If someone goes around and tries to kill them because of it, it's freaky and scary. Jane claims she is not scared when Aldo (a serial killer) tries to kill her just because he believes she is a reincarnation of Cira, an ancient Egyptian. Jane and Trevor set up a trap to get him, but he turns the table and almost gets Jane. After thinking he killed Joe, Eve, and Trevor, he goes after Jane. Thankfully, after he attacks Jane and knocks her to the ground, she manages to grab a rock and she stabs him. To her surprise, he mutters a curse and instantly dies. As she struggles to free herself from under Aldo's dead corpse, she is relieved when she hears Trevor's voice. She is flooded with warmth any joy when she hears that Eve and Joe are OK with only a few cuts and bruises. This is another great book for people who love to read the thrilling mysteries by Iris Johansen.
This is a great book for many reasons, one of which is because there are many suspenseful moments like chases and stalking that leave you at the end of you seat and not wanting to put the book down. One is when Jane chases after her dogs bark after she finds a note on the porch saying that Aldo has him and he will kill the dog if she brings someone with her. She finds him and stabs his shoulder with a butcher knife after he tramples her. She hit him hard enough to get him off of her and go away but not enough to permanently hurt him. Another time is when Aldo is continuously stalking Jane. He always manages to get past the strict security enough to be able to kill her. He doesn't because he believes she should be tortured. A suspenseful part is also when Aldo chases Jane in tunnels where Trevor and Jane set up a trap. The problem was that Aldo got in the tunnel earlier and figured out where they would set up the traps and set up his own traps the kill Eve, Joe, and Trevor. Jane thinks he killed them, which makes it more suspenseful because it makes the reader believe that he can now kill Jane, especially after he traps her.
This book is very complex in many ways. One is that this case went way back. Homeland Security was after him for years, not to mention Trevor's involvement with it. Trevor managed to get more information on Aldo as he tried to kill him. Trevor knew Aldo way back and he knew what Aldo was capable of. Aldo is very focused in Cira since his early childhood. Since he was little, his dad payed more attention in finding out more about Cira that he did in Aldo, even though Cira died over 2,000 years earlier. Aldo has been determined to kill every woman with facial features like Cira to wipe her face from the Earth. He continues the killing spree until he finds what he thinks is Cira's reincarnation, which happens to be Jane. There are many things that link the whole family together in a complex web of visions and dreams. Eve is frequently visited by Bonnie, her dead daughter, who tells Eve that something bad is to happen to Jane. Jane has continuous nightmares of her in a tunnel running away from something, yet she can't get out.
There are many strong willed characters in this story. Jane is a very stubborn and independent teenager. She has been through a lot in her life because she has been in many foster homes in her life. She doesn't totally depend on anyone for anything, which frequently prevents her from getting hurt, until Trevor comes and tells Jane and her family about the situation with Aldo. It turns her life upside-down by making her trust this complete stranger, Trevor. Trevor is a very persistent person. He has been after Aldo since Aldo started his killing sprees. Trevor will not stop until he gets Aldo and makes his the killings stop. Aldo is very obsessed. He's obsessed in getting Cira's fortune, in wiping Cira's face from the face of the Earth, and in killing Jane. Aldo believes he is all-powerful and that no one can stop him, since no one has been able to get him so far.
This is a wonderful book. It includes a thrilling chase throughout the whole book. It makes it ten times better because you can get into everyone's heads (good or bad) because Johansen tells the story from everyone's point of you. When you think the good guys have gotten Aldo, he got them, or at least that's what he and Jane thinks. Johansen does a great job in keeping you attached to the book from beginnings to end. There really is no place in the book where you can stop which adds to the effect of this great thriller. A. Elliott

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