At exactly 7:30 p.m., Walter Pettibone arrived home to over a hundred friends and family shouting, "surprise!" It was his birthday. Although he had known about the planned event for weeks, the real surprise was yet to come. At 8:45 p.m., a woman with emerald eyes and red hair handed him a glass of champagne. One sip of birthday bubbly, and he was dead.
The woman's name is Julie Dockport. No one at the party knew who she was. But Detective Eve Dallas remembers her all too well. Eve was personally responsible for her incarceration nearly ten years ago. And now, let out on good behavior, she still has nothing but bad intentions. It appears she wants to meet Dallas again - in a reunion neither will forget...
Detective Eve Dallas has unfinished business from her past, which she is finally forced to face. She didn't expect that a cold-blooded killer she had put in jail a number of years ago would be on the prowl again or that she would prove to be the impetus for a personal crisis. Susan Ericksen is a skillful and nimble narrator who draws out the tension and intrigue of the plot. Her characterization of the cast is solid, especially her interpretation of Dallas's husband, an Irishman with a mottled past, whose thick brogue serves as a barometer of the intensity of the plot and the danger to Dallas. Ericksen makes good use of this trait without losing control or giving way to exaggeration. A few special effects are thrown in, but Ericksen has no need of them. J.E.M. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award (c) AudioFile 2002, Portland, Maine
About the Author
Nora Roberts is the number-one New York Times-bestselling author of more than 150 novels, including High Noon, Angels Fall, Blue Smoke, and Northern Lights. She is also the author of the bestselling futuristic suspense series written under the pen name J. D. Robb. There are more than 280 million copies of her books in print.
