Vanished
January 12th, 2013. Filed under: This & That.Vanished
By Irene Hannon
New Romantic Suspense Series from Two-Time RITA Award Winner
Three PIs Who Got Burned Playing by the Rules Go Under the Radar in Pursuit of Justice
In her newest romantic-suspense novel, critically-acclaimed author Irene Hannon asks herself what would happen if the victim of a deadly car crash on a secluded country road simply disappeared? Vanished is the gripping first novel in Hannon’s Private Justice series. It opens with a shadowy figure caught in the beam of reporter Moira Harrison’s headlights – followed by a solid thump before she loses control and crashes into a tree. But when Moira regains consciousness, the victim is nowhere to be seen.
The police say the disappearance never happened, but Moira can’t forget the look of sheer terror she saw on the person’s face in the instant it was caught in the glare of her headlights. Now her only hope of discovering the truth is a former police detective turned private eye-and her own investigate skills.
As often happens for Hannon, the genesis of this story came out of the blue, triggered by a simple incident.
“I was driving home from church one rainy night and my headlights fell on a bicyclist on the edge of the narrow road. I swerved to avoid him, thinking what a risk he was taking. Then the wheels in my brain started turning and I began what-iffing. What if a woman was driving alone on a country road and suddenly caught a desperate figure in her headlights? What if she swerved, but hit the figure? What if a stranger appeared out of the darkness to offer assistance before she lost consciousness? What if she woke up and both the stranger and the victim had disappeared? My five-second encounter on that rainy night was the impetus not only for this book, but for my whole Private Justice series, which focuses on situations that have fallen through the cracks of official law enforcement or been dismissed by the police.”
ISLAND BREEZES
Be still my heart. This is suspense you don’t want to put down.
A Pulitzer Prize nominated reporter hires a private investigator she can’t afford to find a woman she may or may not have hit with her car on a rainy night.
If they ever locate that mysterious woman, they will be putting themselves deeper and deeper into danger.
Irene Hannon never disappointed me in her Guardians of Justice series. I think it won’t be any different with her Private Justice series. There’s a teaser at the end which has me anxious for fall 20113 to hurry up and get here. I’m ready for the next book.
***A special thank you to Donna Hausler for providing a review copy.***
Irene Hannon, a former communications executive for a Fortune 500 company, left the corporate world in 2003 to focus on her growing fiction brand. While continuing to write contemporary romance, she also delved into suspense. From the beginning, her romantic suspense books have garnered rave reviews. Booklist named Deadly Pursuit (Revell, 2011) one of the top ten inspirational fiction titles for 2011. The final book in her Guardians of Justice series, Lethal Legacy (Revell, 2011) received a starred review from Library Journal, which praised the book for its “compelling characters and edge-of-your-seat action.”
She is the author of more than 40 novels, including the bestselling Heroes of Quantico and Guardians of Justice series. Her books have been honored with two coveted RITA awards from Romance Writers of America, a Carol Award, a HOLT Medallion, a National Readers’ Choice Award, a Daphne du Maurier Award, a Retailers Choice Award and two Reviewers’ Choice Awards from?RT Book Reviews?magazine. She lives in Missouri.
For more information about her and her books, visit her web site at www.irenehannon.com and follow her on Twitter at @IreneHannon.
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