"Terrifying, gripping romantic suspense with a surprise ending."

By: Allison Brennan

Genres: Romance Suspense

Posted: January 15, 2007

Homicide detective Carina Kincaid has a dead body on her hands and very few clues to work with. The victim, a young woman, was brutally tortured, and while investigating her murder, the detectives discover an online blog that leads them to a potential suspect called "S."

Steve Thomas is 20 years older than the victim, and when police start linking him to the death of his former girlfriend, he contacts his brother, Montana sheriff Nick Thomas. Nick has experience with serial killers, having recently ended the years-long killing spree of the Bozeman Butcher. He travels to San Diego to offer his assistance and get his brother off the suspect list.

The killer is escalating and more college students disappear. Each turns up the day after being taken, mouths glued shut, raped, tortured and wrapped in plastic. Carina and Nick race against time to discover clues in the victims' blogs documenting their sexual escapades, hoping to catch the calculating and deranged killer before he strikes again.

SPEAK NO EVIL is a tautly written thriller that grabs the reader from page one and holds on with a fisted grip until the final page. Carina and Nick are a dynamic pair, each touched by a horrific crime in their past, each needing the other to make themselves whole. The terrifying glimpses into the killer's mind are truly disturbing and the ending a surprise. This latest from Ms. Brennan will stay with the reader long after the final page is turned.

Book Summary

Silence is deadly.

The murder of eighteen-year-old Angi Vance was exceptionally vile--her mouth was sealed with glue, an obscenity was scrawled across her skin, and she was suffocated in a garbage bag. The killing seems personal, so police detective Carina Kincaid focuses her efforts on the victim's much older ex-boyfriend, Steve Thomas. But without physical evidence, Carina can't make a collar or a case. She also can't stop Sheriff Nick Thomas, the prime suspect's brother, from conducting his own unwelcome investigation.

Though Nick is still scarred and unsteady from a recent confrontation with a serial killer, he's determined to prove his brother's innocence. But his confidence is shaken when he learns of Steve's dark side, and when a friend of the murdered girl meets a similarly gruesome fate. With no time to lose, Carina and Nick work together to trap a psychopath, before another unlucky woman faces and unspeakable end.

Speak No Evil by Allison Brennan

Speak No Evil

by: Allison Brennan

Evil #1

Ballantine
February 1, 2007
On Sale: January 30, 2007
Featuring: Carina Kincaid; Nick Thomas
432 pages
ISBN: 0345495020
EAN: 9780345495020
Paperback

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