Blind Spot [Paperback]

Terri Persons (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 1, 2008

Bernadette Saint Clare can see through a killer's eyes, an ability which makes her valuable-and volatile-as an FBI agent. Not always easy to work with, she's languishing at the off-site St. Paul office when bodies begin appearing along the sandy banks of the Mississippi. And it will take her strange ability, an uneasy alliance with her boss, and a mysterious new upstairs neighbor to help bring a bloodthirsty killer into focus.

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In this humdrum thriller with ghostly undercurrents, the first of a new series, Persons uses an old plot idea: endowing her female FBI agent with the power to see through the eyes of a serial killer as he goes about his nefarious business. Agent Bernadette Saint Clare has been kicking around field offices all over the United States when she shows up for her new assignment in St. Paul, hoping that her unusual vision and strange ability will be more welcome than they usually are to both her bosses and her fellow agents. She immediately draws a case involving bodies bound with unusual knots and each missing a right hand. A ring found at one of the sites leads her into the eyes of the killer, but his identity and motives remain unclear. Because Bernadette makes wrong choices, she struggles to understand what the reader has long figured out, missing golden opportunities to catch her man and often placing herself in mortal danger. In future installments, Persons would do well to develop her heroine's ordinary crime-busting skills. (Mar.)
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"A tightly woven tale of suspense."
-BALTIMORE SUN

"Unexpected plot twists...a highly entertaining read."
-BOSTON GLOBE

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Product Details

• Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Berkley (April 1, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 042522046X
• ISBN-13: 978-0425220467
• Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,655,214 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars How she made it thru Quantico..., September 27, 2007

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Cleo "jernigan25" (Atlanta, Ga) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blind Spot (Hardcover)

I'll never know. There are some aspects of this book I really like. And I hope that the author fleshes out her protagonists with the next in this series. I like Agent Bernadette and I really like most of the story behind her gift. But she doesn't seem to have a single, solitary investigative skill. She's an FBI Agent who doesn't seem to know or care about police procedure. Search warrant? We don't need no stinkin' search warrant! I found myself aggravated with her on more than one occasion. There's a glaring lack background and technical information and though the concept is fairly original, the subjects lack... ummph. I didn't feel them or feel for them. The only character I found truly interesting was Auggie, and I knew his angle before she did...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Maybe getting there?, July 24, 2009

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Lehua of Pacifica "Lehua of Pacifica" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Blind Spot (Paperback)

The writing is very uneven. Vast stretches are just plain dumb, yet there are moments that are fresh and sometimes genuinely funny. Christian religion is central throughout the story, so you might skip this one if that's bothersome for you. On balance, I liked this one enough to be willing to look at more from this author.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Turn a blind eye to this book, January 26, 2008

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NewDiane "I live to read!" (NYC) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Blind Spot (Hardcover)

This extremely derivative book has only one new twist that I could see, and that isn't enough to justify the price of the book. The protagonist is neither emotionally nor physically attractive, and how the author expects us to believe that she is a trained FBI agent strains the imagination. There is one intriguing character - a ghost - and I'd prefer to read a book about him! Ostensibly a mystery, this novel has no secrets, and the reader knows a lot more than the psychic all through the story. However, I understand that this is the author's first book. I'd be willing to try her next - but only by borrowing it from a library.