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 | Hand of Evil by J. A. Jance | Reviewed by Harriet Klausner | |
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| Publisher: Touchstone
http://www.simonandschuster.com ISBN: 1416537538 Genre: Fiction Subgenre: Suspense Release date: Dec 2007 Format: Hardcover Pages: 384 Price: $25.95 | |||
| Arabella Ashcroft was partially responsible for Ali Reynolds receiving a scholarship that allowed her to go to college. Arabella summons Ali to her home; she tells her that a nephew, Billy, whom she never met, wants money or he will have her committed. She is afraid, having been confined in a facility before. She gives a diary to Ali that states that Billy’s father sexually assaulted her. With Ali’s help her plan is to blackmail the blackmailer into leaving her alone.
If that is not enough to disturb Ali’s equilibrium, her friend Dave Holman has a daughter Crystal, a sexually abused teen, who runs away from her mother’s home to be with her father. Ali has to take care of her since her father, a police officer, is working a case. Crystal lies at every opportunity and runs way in between fabrications. Crystal saw someone beaten almost to death and Ari finds and follows the criminal but loses him. He tracks Ali down at the hospital where he plans to finish his victim off. Ali is taken hostage by this insane person who holds a gun on her. Help comes from people she barely knows risking their lives, though the outcome remains in doubt. Later on Ali is taken hostage by someone she trusts. Fans of the taut suspense of Mary Higgins Clark and P. J. Tracey will want to read Hand of Evil, a tale that keeps the tension in the stratosphere. The storyline never takes a respite as action occurs in every chapter. What the heroine goes through would put many people in an institution suffering from battle fatigue syndrome; yet Ali displays courage and tenacity as she handles a series of devastating mental blows while maintaining her sanity. | |||
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