Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Just Jennifer

One Kick by Chelsea Cain (Simon & Schuster, August 2014)

Chelsea Cain has terrified readers for year with serial killer Gretchen Lowell pursued by detective Archie Sheridan.  She now turns her attention to Kick Lannigan, a twenty-one-year-old woman who was kidnapped as a child of six, rescued five years later but unable to escape the demons that still hold her captive.   Kick turned to boxing and martial arts as a way to release her past; combined with the unique skills she learned while being held captive (bomb making, lock picking and escaping) Kick is in a word, dangerous.  She also has what it takes to help locate two children who go missing within weeks of each other.  John Bishop, a former weapons dealer, approaches Kick and convinces her that with his contacts and money and her knowledge of the inner workings of child kidnappers and abusers, they are an unstoppable team.  But John has a hidden agenda, as does Kick, and the one thing she may not be equipped to do is to revisit a past that she has successfully fortressed herself from in the past ten years---or so she thinks. Kick is a fascinating character: she is someone who could escape from almost any situation, shoot accurately from any distance, or throw a knife to kill yet there is an unexpected vulnerability about her.  No one gets inside the mind of her characters the way Chelsea Cain does, keeping her readers guessing and off balance until the final sentence. 
  

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