Veena’s review of Shattered Mirror (Eve Duncan, Book 23) by Iris Johansen
Suspense Thriller published by St. Martin’s Press 24 Apr 18
Get ready for a pulse-pounding story with surprises that never cease and a sky-high body count. It all started with a package in a beautiful gold-foil box containing a shattered mirror and a burned skull. Imagine Eve’s surprise, when Cara Delaney, her adopted daughter, brings home her friend Darcy, who is a mirror image of her reconstruction. Did Eve somehow make a mistake when she brought Sylvie home?Darcy has known something is wrong when she no longer feels her psychic connection to her twin, but to walk into Eve’s lakeside cottage and see the reconstructed skull is a pretty brutal way to find out her twin’s dead. Soon Jock Gavin and Joe are on the hunt to find out what happened and what danger is posed to Cara, Darcy, and Michael, especially since Cara was recently attacked in her residence.
No one is safe from the killer who doesn’t care whom he has to kill to achieve his goal of taking out Eve, Cara, Michael, and Cara’s crime lord grandfather. Blowing up a town square on a busy Saturday morning is pretty heinous, especially since the main target is six-year-old Michael’s soccer team at the ice cream shop after their game. The action moves from New York to Atlanta to New Orleans, with some side trips to the South of France as the story comes together.
Can Joe, Jock, and Eve’s psychic connection to her son Michael foil the killer’s plans and bring all the people whom Eve loves safely to the other side of trouble? In the midst of the adrenaline rush, Cara’s relationship to Josh is changing with tones of passion and sexual lust being introduced where once there was a simple, uncomplicated love and hero worship. Can Cara find her heart’s dreams in Josh Gavin’s arms? I really can’t wait to see where the author will take this relationship next.
Grade: A
Summary:
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is once again thrown into a deadly game of intrigue when she receives a cryptic package containing a skull and a two sided mirror. Eve is determined to reconstruct the skull and uncover the mystery of the person’s identity, and when she does, the face of a beautiful woman begins to emerge. But who is she?
As Eve gets closer and closer to finding the answer, she becomes swept up in a lethal chase that spans continents and threatens to destroy the family that she has worked so hard to bring together. Eve and her team must work quickly to discover who is behind the murder – and maybe even prevent more loss of life. But how do you fight a killer who is willing to destroy anyone as a means to an end?
No one is safe in #1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen’s next explosive, high-stakes thriller that will keep readers on the edge of their seat through every heart-pounding chapter.
