Quicksand (Eve Duncan)

by Iris Johansen | Mystery & Thrillers |
ISBN: 9780312368067 Global Overview for this book
Registered by princess-peapod of San Luis Obispo, California USA on 11/17/2008
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Journal Entry 1 by princess-peapod from San Luis Obispo, California USA on Monday, November 17, 2008
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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.


I didn;t enjoy this one as much as others within this series...lots of minor things that bothered me while reading.
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Journal Entry 2 by princess-peapod at Joe Mommas in Avila Beach, California USA on Friday, August 21, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (8/21/2009 UTC) at Joe Mommas in Avila Beach, California USA

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I am taking a bunch of books down to refresh our stock at the zone...happy reading!
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Journal Entry 3 by jlautner from Henderson, Nevada USA on Monday, August 24, 2009
Picked up from Joe Momma's bookcrossing zone in Avila Beach.

Journal Entry 4 by jlautner from Henderson, Nevada USA on Thursday, September 17, 2009
In spite of the Eve Duncan novels being of the romantic suspense variety, I have read several in large part because of the forensic information. Duncan reconstructs faces from skulls and clay and is very good at it. In some of the novels we get a large look at this process and where it can lead. In this one it was strictly peripheral.

Instead, we get a serial killer of children targeting Duncan for some reason that did not really add up for me. Eve's daughter Bonnie went missing some years before and for whatever weak reason this current serial killer targets Eve because...??? Because that way she can be in danger and there can be a dramatic scene.

Much of the book is about the rivalry about the two testosterone-poisoned males in her life, Joe Quinn and Montalvo (what is his first name???). There is nothing so exciting as antlers clashing. For me, not so much.

In this book, too, Eve and a newer Johansen character, Megan, meet. Megan was introduced in the previous novel, "Pandora's Child" and is a "Listener". She can hear voices of those in extreme distress - after the fact. So she can hear the last cries of a child dying, for example. Megan helps Eve in the pursuit of this serial killer and of course also suffers greatly in the process. Similar characters - strong yet emotionally charged. The typical romantic suspense female.

Oh, wait: one funny nit: in this novel Eve gets phone calls from the killer, taunting her. He uses cell phones that belonged to people he killed. When Eve looks at the phone she sees the name of the dead person. But in real life she wouldn't see that unless she entered that name herself. It's a rather stupid error, I think.

Journal Entry 5 by jlautner at Subway on Broad at Orcutt in San Luis Obispo, California USA on Sunday, September 27, 2009

Released 14 yrs ago (9/27/2009 UTC) at Subway on Broad at Orcutt in San Luis Obispo, California USA

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