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Quinn (Eve, Quinn and Bonnie #2)

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As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how deadly it can be. When he first met Eve Duncan, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose life would be defined by her dual desires to bring home her missing daughter and discover the truth behind her disappearance ? no matter how devastating. With the help of CIA agent Cath...more

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Jul 20, 2011 Bonnie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller, read-in-2011, adult

‘Quinn’ is tagged as the 2nd of a final trilogy; however, Iris Johansen’s ‘Eve Duncan’ series is the series this trilogy is based off of. If you want to be able to truly understand and appreciate this trilogy, I would highly recommend reading the Eve Duncan series first.

Iris Johansen’s ’Eve Duncan’ series has become a personal favorite of mine over the last decade. Personally fascinated by crime novels with interesting forensic tidbits at an early age, stumbling upon this series was quite a disc...more ‘Quinn’ is tagged as the 2nd of a final trilogy; however, Iris Johansen’s ‘Eve Duncan’ series is the series this trilogy is based off of. If you want to be able to truly understand and appreciate this trilogy, I would highly recommend reading the Eve Duncan series first.

Iris Johansen’s ’Eve Duncan’ series has become a personal favorite of mine over the last decade. Personally fascinated by crime novels with interesting forensic tidbits at an early age, stumbling upon this series was quite a discovery for me. Eve is a strong and independent woman and is also a trained forensic sculptor who performs skull recreations to put a face to lost children to help bring their families peace. This is all in hope that one day she’ll find her daughter Bonnie who was kidnapped when she was 7 years old. ‘Quinn’ delves into the past when Eve and Quinn first met and he was first assigned to help find her daughter. It was very interesting to see the change in Eve and how she became a forensic sculptor; not simply out of the desire to find her own daughter, but out of the realization that she could do something to help the grieving families who hurt much like she does from the loss of her own child.

The story opens where ’Eve’ left off, with Joe Quinn in the ICU after being stabbed by Paul Black. In the hospital, Eve sees the ghost of her daughter Bonnie staring down at Quinn and thinks that he’s dying and she has come to take him to the afterlife. Catherine Ling has gone to track down John Gallo to get him to talk after Paul Black claimed John Gallo killed Bonnie. Only problem is John Gallo doesn’t remember him doing that; but doesn’t rule it out as a possibility considering his mental issues after being a POW in Korea.

The Good
My favorite bit was learning more about Eve and Joe’s past and when they first met each other. Knowing from reading the Eve Duncan series, Eve and Joe have a fierce love for each other and I loved being able to see how it all began.

The Bad
Okay, so after reading 13 books about Eve Duncan I think I’m a bit biased regarding my never-ending love for this series. With that said the one bad thing I do have to say this book resolved zero questions. Sure all sorts of new questions got raised, but was anything solved? Hmm… no not really. Which is really irritating. Sure us readers only have to wait 3 months before ’Bonnie’ comes out, but I still would’ve appreciated SOME answers.

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Mar 07, 2013 Mary rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: Anyone who likes contemporary mysteries

Recommended to Mary by: Library Book Sale

Shelves: read-but-unowned, 2010-2019, contemporary-mystery, hardcover, bought-at-a-library-book-sale

As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how dark the shadows of the soul can turn. But when he met Eve Duncan a decade ago, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose torment has ultimately fueled her twin desires to bring her missing daughter home and reveal the truth of her disappearance, no matter how devastating it may be. Eve's fateful first love, John Gallo, seems to hold the key to the mystery of young Bonnie's fate. With Joe's life h...more

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Aug 01, 2012 Elizabeth Noah rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Mar 27, 2012 Abbey rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Jan 04, 2012 Debbie rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Iris Johansen has done it again. She reeled me into this book and I couldn't put it down and even knowing the next book, Bonnie, was coming out so we wouldn't find out who her murderer is yet I still wanted to scream at the end. She certainly knows how to keep a reader hanging and desperately seeking the next book. If you read my review of Chasing the Night and Eve you know that despite not having read all of the Eve Duncan books from the beginning I am still in love with this series. E...more

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Nov 30, 2011 Gloria Feit rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the second volume in a trilogy [the first was “Eve,” and the next “Bonnie”], wrapping up the mystery of the disappearance of Eve Duncan’s seven-year-old daughter who was presumably murdered. This novel gives a lot of background on how she and Quinn came to meet, fall in love and come together.

Of course, it has to begin with Quinn near death in the hospital from a knife wound, but making a superhuman effort to get out and rejoin the hunt for Bonnie’s killer, aided by CIA agent and friend...more

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Jul 12, 2011 Debbie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Quinn is the second of Iris Johansen’s trilogy about Eve’s search for her daughter Bonnie and it is full of hard hitting action and a thriller that you’ll not soon forget. In this story we learn about Joe Quinn right from the moment he met Eve after the disappearance of Bonnie, she takes you deep into the psyche of a distraught woman fighting between hope and despair that her daughter would still be found alive and knowing it’s unlikely. She also gives us clues to the mystery and brings us ever...more

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Feb 03, 2012 Melanie Chabrol- rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Well, I must say the way it is written is a 5.5, but the idea of the furture, to the present to the past, you are so close to finding out who the killer is, then they go back into time with the next book. started it yesterday at 8am, put it down at 10pm, started it at 6am and just finished it at 5:50pm. Usually with trilogies i can read another book in between.

Joe Quinn is after the truth of what happened to Bonnie, Eve's daughter and although not everyone gets along they all have one thing in...more

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Aug 01, 2011 Jessica RiffeKincaid rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: romantic-suspense

The search for Eves lost daughter, Bonnie continues with the help of the friends closest to her. Almost, there with the answers as to who killed her daughter, together Eve, her Joe, Catherine & the father Gallo, found a man that holds the answers to the questions that they have all hunted & shed blood, sweat & tears over for a very long time. Just as the moment of truth is about to be told, they find the key to unlock their questions dead. Killed by someone that is just as lethal, st...more

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Jun 23, 2012 Heather rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Title: Quinn (Eve Duncan Series)

Author: Iris Johansen

Publisher: St. Martin’s Press

Synopsis (from bn.com):

#1 New York Times bestselling author Iris Johansen explores the darkest corners of the human heart as forensic sculptor Eve Duncan closes in on the killer who stole her daughter so many years ago.

As a former Navy SEAL turned cop, Joe Quinn has seen the face of evil and knows just how deadly it can be. When he first met Eve Duncan, he never expected to fall in love with a woman whose life woul...more

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Dec 27, 2012 Danica rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Although the first book, Eve, was definitely about her, this book literally had nothing to do with Joe Quinn. I was hoping that, like Eve, we would get to see about Joe's past and what his life was like growing up, but nope, we just had to sit through chapters of the initial search for Bonnie. I don't know about everybody else, but I had heard enough about these days throughout the rest of the previous books that I didn't really care. The only thing I am sure about is that Joe definitely breache...more

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Aug 03, 2011 Lisa G. rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Another wonderful book, the second of the trilogy that has been eagerly anticipated.

Like "Eve", this book tells a complete story in itself, but is more meaningful as a follow-up to "Eve", the first book of the trilogy and is a continues covering the back story to the Eve Duncan series. It is the answer to many of the "I wonder . . ." questions that I've had over the years. I'm a fan of the Eve Duncan series, so this trilogy is a wonderful addition. Suspenseful, full of surprises and heading to a...more

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Jun 23, 2012 Joti rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This review has been hidden because it contains spoilers. To view it, click here. I loved it!! the sequel to Eve - and i can't wait to read Bonnie, the last book
So a chunk of this book in the beginning was from Joe's perspective when he was in the hospital and it gave me a look into the past from when he first met Eve was trying to help her find Bonnie when she first went missing - Eve tried to lure the killer out and after a series of events they thought they had the killer, Ralph Fraser, I think it was - a gardener guy but if he had killed Bonnie, he was executed before Eve...more I loved it!! the sequel to Eve - and i can't wait to read Bonnie, the last book
So a chunk of this book in the beginning was from Joe's perspective when he was in the hospital and it gave me a look into the past from when he first met Eve was trying to help her find Bonnie when she first went missing - Eve tried to lure the killer out and after a series of events they thought they had the killer, Ralph Fraser, I think it was - a gardener guy but if he had killed Bonnie, he was executed before Eve could ever find out - Anyway, Joe was okay and meanwhile, Catherine went back to the woods where she was hunting Gallo and she saved him from dying and then they teamed up because she didn't think he'd killed Bonnie - it didn't make sense, according to her b/c Paul Black could've been lying or he was wrong about Gallo killing Bonnie in one of his blackouts - so they track down Thomas Jacobs, the guy who was working with Queen (Black and Gallo were both hired by Queen and he was playing both of them) and they kidnapped him - and all this time, Catherine has conflicting feelings about Gallo - they turn each other on, which is a bit weird cuz he had Eve have this complex relationship and Catherine's her best friend too :$ so anyway, they take Jacobs to a bayou away from the city and stuff and Eve and Joe are on their way there - but when they get there and all go up to interrogate Jacobs, they find him dead - and someone splashing in the bayou trying to get away - so they all go after him - Catherine almost gets killed but John Gallo throws a knife at the killer when he's behind her and it hits him in the hand - Joe shoots from a tree and missed and the killer jumps in the water and Catherine's waiting for him, ready to take him on and it ends there! OMG the cliffhanger!!! the story was great - most of it was from Catherine and Gallo's perspective - some from Eve too and a lot of Joe at the beginning
Really looking forward to reading the last book in this series!!! I ope Eve can bring Bonnie home and find peace at last
----and i'm still holding out on the tiniest hope that Bonnie could/might/by the smallest possibility be alive :$ that would be the happiest ending ever if she were(less)

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Sep 09, 2011 Kay rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery

I'm not sure why I started reading this series about one million books ago. I guess I liked the first one I read and continued on. They got 'old' many books back but I never give up. This one is the 2nd to the last in what I hear is the end of the series so I'm hoping I will soon be finished with them.

I don't like the characters in the book except for Joe Quinn. The plots are usually good [and this one is no exception] but the conversations are 'cold'. The last [I'm hoping] three books are Eve [...more

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Mar 12, 2012 Brittany rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

‘Quinn’ opens where ‘Eve’ left off, with Joe Quinn barely clinging to life in the ICU after being stabbed by Paul Black. After a miraculous recovery, Joe and Eve follow Catherine Ling’s trail back to John Gallo, who disappeared after he was revealed as Bonnie’s killer in book one. Gallo doesn’t remember killing his daughter, but he can’t rule out the possibility due to his mental state after Korea.

It was nice to see how Joe and Eve met, although it was shortly after Eve’s daughter Bonnie disapp...more

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Aug 19, 2011 Vicki rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Second of a trilogy that is loaded with passion and suspense, and of course leaves a committed reader panting for the final volume so that hopefully, all the mysteries, twist and turns will be resolved, this book begins where the first volume, Eve, left off. Joe Quinn is in a coma in a hospital on the cusp of death.

Ms. Johansen has been reporting the thrilling episodes in the lives of Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn in volume after volume for years, but this trilogy is my first intro to her writing and...more Second of a trilogy that is loaded with passion and suspense, and of course leaves a committed reader panting for the final volume so that hopefully, all the mysteries, twist and turns will be resolved, this book begins where the first volume, Eve, left off. Joe Quinn is in a coma in a hospital on the cusp of death.

Ms. Johansen has been reporting the thrilling episodes in the lives of Eve Duncan and Joe Quinn in volume after volume for years, but this trilogy is my first intro to her writing and these characters. It amazes me that she has covered so much territory in their lives in law enforcement and yet is telling the back story of their relationship for the first time in this series.

While Joe is in a coma, he reviews in his memory how he came into Eve's life. As an FBI agent he is assigned to help the Atlanta PD find an active serial killer whose victims are children. Sadly, Eve is one of those parents agonizing over the loss of her precious 7 year old, Bonnie. The child's body has not been found, so Eve still holds onto hope that her child may still live. Joe goes to Eve's home to interview her, and is caught off guard by his instant attraction to this grieving woman. He feels a need to watch over and protect her, especially as she begins to insist on helping to ferret out the serial killer. He is hesitant to involve her at first, but then realizes her insights and skills are helpful.

When Joe tries to insulate her from the more dangerous aspects of the investigation, she surprises him by putting herself in great danger in an attempt to draw out the killer. Though Joe has suppressed the desire and love he feels for her, he goes after her and helps to make her daring plan work.

This stirring saga takes over half of the book and leads to Joe's healing and recovery, but not before he sees the spirit of Bonnie who leads him out of the darkness of the coma and back to consciousness.

In the meantime, Catherine Ling, a crack CIA agent who is a close friend of Eve and Joe, is on the trail of John Gallo, former lover of Eve, the father of the missing Bonnie, and suspected now of being her killer. He escapes capture at the end of Eve, and is likely still living in the vast woodland acreage surrounding the home he owns about 70 miles north of Milwaukee. Catherine has a back story too, and a young son that Eve helped her rescue in recent years. He had been kidnapped at age 2 and held for 9 years before being rescued, so part of her story involves rebuilding a relationship with the son who doesn't remember her as a mother.

There are unexpected twists throughout the story and part of my interest is drawn to the interaction of Catherine and Gallo, who turn out to be just about equals in the hunter and quarry department. Their adversarial relationship even turns to a wary partnership as they are closing in on the real villains.

What a story! This tale reminds me of the serials we watched at the Saturday afternoon movies at the Gateway theater, except for the sex and gory murder parts, I mean. Just the urgent and ever-present feeling of "...what's next, what's next??"

If you like suspense, this may be just the ticket!

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Oct 10, 2011 Judith rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: awful

I read some of the earlier books in this series, so I thought it would be an entertaining way to pass some time. Even though I wasn't expecting much, Quinn was incredibly disappointing. While the previous books at least told a story with a beginning, a middle, and an ending, this one didn't even do that much. It was much like watching one of those retrospective episodes of a long-running television series--nothing new or interesting--but it was made worse because the whole muddle just stops with...more

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Sep 08, 2012 Sarahmarie rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: in-own-library

Wow! This second novel in her Eve/Quinn/Bonnie trilogy is as good, if not better, than Eve, the first book in the series. After Bonnie's ghost leads Quinn back to consciousness at the beginning, the bulk of the plot focuses on the search for Bonnie's father/rumored kidnapper/murderer.

Where Eve ended with Quinn clinging precariously to life in a Milwaukee hospital ICU, this novel ends in a perfect cliff hanger involving a gulf coast fog bank, a southern Louisiana bayou, a shadoy figure in a wet...more

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Oct 31, 2012 Marya Kowal rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I love the Eve Duncan series, and the latest set of books has been an interesting twist.

This book focuses on the Eve, Quinn and Bonnie triad from Quinn's point of view, and it's more interesting to me than Eve was.

Since the beginning of the series, famed forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has been searching for the body of her murdered daughter, Bonnie. Former FBI agent Quinn, now her husband in all but ceremony, is now a local police detective and is still helping her try to find Bonnie, despite his...more

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Aug 21, 2011 Beth - ;) rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: mystery-thriller, library-borrowed, read-in-2011

This is the second book in a trilogy that will *finally* bring closure to the story of Eve and her search for her daughter Bonnie's body. Bonnie was taken and murdered when she was seven and Eve has been searching for her for years, with the help of her partner Joe Quinn. "Eve" told her backstory, how she met Bonnie's father at the age of 16 and then was told he was dead after he joined the Army. "Quinn" is Joe's story; at least the first part tells how he met Eve as an FBI agent investigating B...more

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Jul 04, 2012 Judith rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: hot-books-read

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Jul 26, 2011 Marcia Stauber rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

KNOWING THAT THIS IS THE NEXT TO LAST CHAPTER IN THE SERIES OF EVE DUNCAN I THOUGHT THIS BOOK WOULD BE JUST A FILLER AND NOT BE OF THE HIGHEST STANDARDS OF MS JOHANSEN. BOY WAS I WRONG. AS I TURNED THE PAGES IT ONLY GOT BETTER AND BETTER. ONE HAS TO BE A FAN OF EVE DUNCAN TO APPRECIATE THIS BOOK AND TO HAVE FOLLOWED THE STORY OF HOW HER DAUGHTER WAS ABDUCTED AND HER SEARCH FOR HER KILLER AND TRYING TO FIND HER BODY AND HAVE IT RETURNED TO HER TO BE BURIED OR AS SHE USES THE PHRASE TO COME HOME....more

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Aug 06, 2011 Lesley rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: 2011

Enjoyed reading/learning how Joe Quinn came to meet Eve Duncan and how/why they relationship is the way it is. In some of the previous novels we've only gotten a glimpse into Joe and most of it was from Eve's perspective. It's interesting to have Joe's character fleshed out a lot more and to understand why he is the way he is and to understand the decision he makes. Once again Ms. Johansen crafts a tale that not only takes you on a journey but allows you to feel the emotions of the characters in...more

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Dec 01, 2011 Diane rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

The second of the trilogy that will end the Eve Duncan - Joe Quinn series of mysteries. I found this book disappointing and would not recommend it.

There is a great deal of back story about how Eve and Joe met, most of which has been covered or glossed over in the series of preceding mysteries. I found the inclusion of this information redundant, at times unbelievable (a federal agent giving a civilian full access to case files?)and, to be honest, boring. I kept reading because I respect the auth...more

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Feb 01, 2013 Karen rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

After Quinn is critically wounded by the serial killer Paul Black he is laying comatose in ICU. His subconscious takes him back to the time Bonnie Duncan disappeared and he, a young FBI agent and former Navy SEAL is called in to look for her abductor and possible killer. Her mother Eve is a 23 year old student trying to cope with the loss and insists on assisting him.
Fast forward to present day and Joe Quinn makes a surprising recovering. Eve Duncan is still searching for Bonnies killer and has...more

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Apr 03, 2012 Lori rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I love Iris Johansen in general and am looking forward to the conclusion of the Bonnie storyline. I really enjoy the books but it is taking a long time to find out what happened. This book was a reprisal of some earlier stuff and felt a bit repetitive in places. Without saying exactly what happens, the ending was not satisfactory. I feel almost blackmailed into getting Bonnie this very second. Still, it is a good story and the sense is that it is coming to an end. I hope that after the end of th...more

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Sep 26, 2011 Kathryn rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Quinn picks up where Eve left the readers - Quinn is in the hospital, having been shot when he killed Black. Eve is by his side.

As Joe Quinn lies in ICU - readers get a look the young, hot-shot FBI agent who was assigned the "Bonnie" case. Iris Johansen, flips the story back and forth between the past - Joe Quinn, FBI agent handling the Bonnie case and the present - where Catherine Ling is tracking down John Gallo.

Did John Gallo kill his daughter? Are Joe Quinn and Eve Duncan right to what Bla...more

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Aug 01, 2011 Cavi rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

As everyone else who has followed the adventures of Eve duncan we are all excited to finally find out what really happened to Bonnie. I really enjoied Eve, however I felt that Quinn was very flat until 3/4 of the book. The main complaint was Ms. Johansen's handleing of Catherine. After all she had made her out to be in the prior books I was very dissapointed to have the whole thing sex tension betwen her and Gallo. There is no way I would ever even consider that happening with Catherine's person...more

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Jul 23, 2011 Eleanor rated it 2 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I was not really impressed with this book. I have always had a hard time with Joe Quinn's character, as he has always been possessive of Eve and jealous of the people in her in life. It has gotten old and I am ready for something new. I would have put this book down if I was not so invested in finding out what happened to Bonnie and who killed her. At least I hope we find out in "Bonnie". If not, I may have to just give up, which is a true disappointment because I really enjoyed the early books...more

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Dec 16, 2011 Joanne rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I have been an Eve Duncan, Joe Quinn fan for a long time. I was thrilled when the trilogy that would finally bring Bonnie home was announced. But I have to admit, I have been disappointed so far. In Quinn, the second of the series, Johansen does not apply her talents at weaving a complex tale of mystery and intrigue.

Quinn focuses more on relationships - old and budding ones - than on building excitement or dnagling false clues. The last 30 pages pick of the pace, but it is too little to late.

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Johansen began writing after her children left home for college. She first achieved success in the early 1980s writing category romances. In 1991, Johansen began writing suspense historical romance novels, starting with the publication of The Wind Dancer. In 1996 Johansen switched genres, turning to crime fiction, with which she has had great success. She had seventeen consecutive New York Times b...more

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