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Moving target / J. A. Jance.
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Lance Tucker, an incarcerated juvenile offender and talented hacker in his own right, is set on fire one night and severely burned while hanging Christmas decorations in a lockup rec room. B. Simpson, Ali Reynolds's fiance and the man who helped put Lance in jail, feels obliged to get to the bottom of what happened. With Ali off in England to help Leland Brooks at a reunion with his long-estranged family, B. turns to someone else to help out--Ali's good friend and Taser-carrying nun, Sister Anselm.Meanwhile, in Bournemouth--Leland's hometown--Ali begins to investigate the decades-old murder of Leland's father, which Leland himself was once suspected of committing. With unsolved murders on both sides of the Atlantic, Ali, B., and Sister Anselm are united by their search for answers--and the jeopardy they get into as a result.
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- ISBN: 9781476745022 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: 405 pages ; 19 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Pocket Books, 2015, ©2014.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Binscarth Library | AFPB JAN (Text) | 32447000104963 | Adult Fiction Paperback | Volume hold | Available | - |
- Booklist Reviews : Booklist Reviews 2014 January #1
Just weeks before her wedding, Ali Reynolds accompanies eightysomething Leland Brooks, her longtime beloved majordomo, to England for his first trip back to his homeland in almost 60 years, a visit that reveals shocking family secrets. Meanwhile, Ali's fiancé, B. Simpson, head of high-tech security company High Noon Enterprises, is diverted from his international business by the plight of teenage computer wunderkind Lance Tucker. Put in juvenile detention after breaking into his Texas school district's computer system, Lance is almost fatally injured in what is deemed an accident. But as the bodies pile up, including those of Lance's math teacher and a maintenance man at the detention center, it's clear that someone badly wants GHOST, "the cyber version of Harry Potter's invisibility cloak" that allows undetected web surfing, developed by Lance and his late teacher. In the ninth Ali Reynolds outing (after Deadly Stakes, 2013), Jance adroitly combines well-rounded characterizations and brisk storytelling with high-tech exploits, arson, kidnappings, and a shootout for an entertaining and suspenseful addition to this solid series. Copyright 2014 Booklist Reviews. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 2014 January #2
An ex-reporter, a high-tech specialist and a nun help right wrongs of the near and distant past as they circle the globe. Even though Ali Reynolds (Deadly Stakes, 2013, etc.) is a grandmother, she intends to get married in style. She doesn't come to England with her major-domo Leland Brooks just to shop for a wedding gown, however: She hopes to see Leland reunited with his estranged family while she tries to find out if Leland's late father had a little help in dying. Ali's fiance, B. Simpson, head of a computer security company, is following the case of Lance Tucker. A former honors student and computer whiz at a Texas high school, Lance was recently released from juvenile detention after an accident that broke both his legs and gave him second-degree burns. Simpson, who was partly responsible for sending Lance to juvie when the boy was caught hacking into his school's computer system, feels guilty and wants to lend a hand. For starters, he has Sister Anselm appointed as Lance's patient advocate. The murder of another advocate for the teenager unites Ali, Simpson and Sister Anselm in trying to protect Lance, who's developed a computer application that may be worth more than his life. Dizzying changes of locale and point of view, along with large helpings of sentimentality, weaken Ali's latest. If only Jance had focused on one plot instead of sending her characters all over creation in pursuit of two separate mysteries. Copyright Kirkus 2014 Kirkus/BPI Communications.All rights reserved. - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 2013 November #4
At the start of Jance's engrossing ninth Ali Reynolds novel (after 2013's Deadly Stakes), Ali, eager to escape the chaos surrounding her upcoming wedding to B. Simpson, travels from Sedona, Ariz., to England with her 80-something majordomo, Leland Brooks. Sixty years earlier, Leland's family disowned him, and he left the country in disgrace. Now he and Ali discover there's more to the storyâincluding a long-unsolved murder. Meanwhile, someone succeeds in severely burning Lance Tucker, a teen hacker B. helped incriminate, at the San Leandro, Tex., juvenile facility where he's being held. Feeling responsible and seeing himself in Lance, B. investigates who wants the boy dead and why, aided by his colleagues at the cybersecurity firm High Noon and Sister Anselm, an elderly nun with a Taser, who guards Lance's hospital room. Jance provides enough backstory to orient readers new to the series, and longtime fans should enjoy insights into B.'s and Leland's pasts. Agent: Alice Volpe, Northwest Literary Agency. (Feb.)
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