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Stalemate [electronic resource] / Iris Johansen.
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- ISBN: 9780553903331 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 0553903330 (electronic bk. : Adobe Reader)
- ISBN: 9780553903331 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- ISBN: 0553903330 (electronic bk. : Mobipocket Reader)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (341 p.)
- Publisher: New York : Bantam Books, 2007.
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- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2006 October #2
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is a complicated woman. She has survived her years in the school of hard knocks, although not without scars. And she has suffered the worst event a parent can, losing a child to abduction. Now she helps other stricken parents by reconstructing skulls so that victims can be identified. In this, she is one of the best. In addition to her work, she has Joe, a wonderfully understanding man with many military and government connections. But all this abruptly changes when Eve gets a phone call from Montalvo, a drug lord in South America in need of her services. Eve initially refuses to make the journey, but after he promises to use all his resources to find her daughter's killer and her body, this scarily single-minded and stubborn woman agrees to go, despite knowing that she will most likely be killed. Eve is then simultaneously repelled by and attracted to Montalvo. Johansen strikes again, creating both a nonstop thriller and a character study about an individual who has long seen the world in black and white, and now perceives only shades of gray. ((Reviewed October 15, 2006)) Copyright 2006 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2006 November #1
In prolific suspense novelist Johansen's energetic new Eve Duncan thriller (Countdown, 2005, etc.), the forensics sculptor makes a dangerous deal with a Colombian weapons dealer.Eve is now living with her lover, Atlanta detective Joe Quinn, while working on her reconstruction of a skull she calls Marty, the remains of a boy murdered five years before in Macon. The phone rings: It's Colombian crime lord Montalvo, promising to find Marty's still-unknown killer and to unearth the fate of Eve's daughter Bonnie, who disappeared years ago at age seven. Why? Because he wants Eve to come to his village, San Cristal, and apply her renowned skill to the reconstruction of his beloved wife Nalia's head. A rebel double-crossed and killed by powerful local drug dealer Ramon Diaz, Nalia rests in a grave still under Diaz's deadly watch. Joe arrives to watch over Eve and is promptly wounded. Ensconced in Montalvo's cozy compound, Eve has to hurry with the reconstruction of Nalia's head so that she and Joe can hightail it out of the country. Diaz, a dope-using child molester, threatens to harm Eve's adopted daughter, Jane (ensconced in a CIA safe house, but you never know), and scatters grisly proof of his ruthlessness. Eve and the urbane Montalvo consider, then reject, their mutual attraction. Johansen serves up lots of nasty snarling among the principals, plus icky violence including the crucifixion torture of a henchman, but the locale is vaguely sketched and the characters interchangeably villainous. Also, it seems unfair to dangle the promise of solving Bonnie's disappearance, then withholding it-until the next installment, no doubt.All the usual elements, somewhat manipulatively reconfigured. Copyright Kirkus 2006 Kirkus/BPI Communications. All rights reserved. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2006 September #1
Forensic sculptor Eve Duncan is back for more puzzles. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. - Library Journal Reviews : LJ Reviews 2006 December #1
In the latest installment (after Countdown ) of Johansen's engrossing suspense series starring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan, Eve agrees to travel from Atlanta to Colombia to reconstruct the skull of weapons dealer Luis Montalvo's deceased wife. In exchange, Montalvo will release a man he is holding hostage and help Eve discover what became of her daughter, Bonnie, who was kidnapped years ago. Eve's visit to Colombia is fraught with danger and mystery as she finds herself in the middle of a deadly conflict between Montalvo and drug lord Diaz, who murdered Montalvo's wife, Nalia. As she begins reconstructing Nalia's skull, Eve finds herself unwittingly attracted to Montalvo, even as her lover, Detective Joe Quinn, comes to Colombia to take Eve back to safety in Atlanta. Johansen's latest is a first-rate suspense thriller complete with expertly developed characters involved in a world of intrigue where nothing is quite as it seems. Recommended for all public libraries. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 9/1/06.]âSheri Melnick, Harrisburg, PA
[Page 111]. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2006 October #2
In the latest Eve Duncan forensics thriller from bestseller Johansen (Killer Dreams ), the Atlanta-based forensic sculptor with an international reputation finds herself attracted, not always convincingly, to a sleazy manipulator. Duncan, who specializes in reconstructing facial features from skulls, has buried herself in her work since the disappearance and presumed death of her seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie, years earlier. That still-open wound is probed with sadistic skill by Luis Montalvo, a shady Colombian arms dealer, who offers to solve the mystery of what happened to Bonnie if Duncan agrees to attempt a reconstruction from a skull Montalvo believes was his late wife's. Despite the misgivings of her former husband, an FBI agent, Duncan accepts, and soon finds herself dodging bullets in a war between Montalvo and a drug lord rival in the Colombian jungle. Despite a shortage of the sort of meaty science that, say, a Kathy Reichs thriller typically provides, Johansen's faithful audience should be satisfied. (Jan.)
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