Fear No Evil [Hardcover]

Allison Brennan (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover
• Publisher: Ballantine; Reg prt edition (2007)
• ISBN-10: 073947961X
• ISBN-13: 978-0739479612
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,173,187 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Dear Reader:

Like most writers, I am an avid reader. I started light - Encyclopedia Brown, Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew - but by the time I was eleven, I'd discovered my mom's vast Agatha Christie and Ed McBain collections.

But two things happened on my way to becoming a mystery writer.

First, I discovered Stephen King.

As a thirteen-year-old book fanatic, I learned about page-turners early. I wrote Stephen King a fan letter after reading THE STAND and told him I wanted to be a writer when I grew up. He wrote back and told me: "If you want to be a writer, write." Which I took to mean, why wait until I grew up?

My problem? I never finished anything I started. As soon as I was well into the story and had figured out what was going to happen, I became bored and started a new project.

In high school, I became fascinated with true crime, and it wasn't until college that I started reading my mom's romance novels. They hadn't appealed to me as a teenager, but as a "mature" twenty-one year old, I found them entertaining.

Nora Roberts, Linda Howard, and others introduced me to contemporary novels that didn't involve murder, dismemberment, or deranged clowns living in the sewer.

Over the next decade, I built a career, married, had five kids, but never stopped reading--or writing.

I soon discovered a wonderful blend of suspense and romance with the romantic suspense novels of Tami Hoag, Kay Hooper and Lisa Gardner, and knew exactly what I wanted to write. I could take my mystery reader background, my fascination with true crime, and my desire for the happily ever after, and blend it into a romantic thriller.

I love romance because I want a happy ending. True love should win over adversity. IF the hero and heroine are worthy. They need to earn it, because nothing achieved easily is truly appreciated. But I also love intense thrills and chills because they are physical--fear causes the entire body to react, heart pounding, head thumping, hands shaking.

I'm thrilled to have a new series. LOVE ME TO DEATH started the Lucy Kincaid series. Lucy is an aspiring FBI agent with a troubled past. Readers can follow her from application to Quantico and -- hopefully -- as a Special Agent. The fourth book in the series, SILENCED, will be out on 4.24.12.

Thank you to all my readers who continuing to buy and read my books. I appreciate your feedback and enthusiasm. I will keep writing as long as you keep reading!

Happy Reading!
Allison Brennan

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New York Times bestselling author Allison Brennan has published seventeen romantic thrillers, in addition to several short stories. Allison is a five-time RITA award nominee for Best Romantic Suspense, and the Daphne du Maurier winner for Best Mainstream Suspense for FEAR NO EVIL. She also has an essay on Daphne du Maurier's REBECCA in the Edgar-nominated 100 MUST READ THRILLERS.

A former consultant in the California State Legislature, Allison lives in northern California with her husband Dan and their five kids. She's currently writing ... or attending her kids sporting events.

Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Allison Brennan steps up to the plate, March 28, 2007

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Elaine C McTyer "avid reader" (Dawson, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fear No Evil: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

With the final novel in the series, however I sincerely hope she will give us the stories of the other three Kincaids, Jack, a mercenary, Patrick, a computer genius, and Lucy, the youngest who is center stage in FEAR NO EVIL. There is also the undercover agent, Mick, I would love to know his story. As you can tell there are alot of intersting secondary characters in this novel.

Kate Donovan is a renegade FBI agent. For five years she has hunted the man who murdered her partner, Paige Henshaw, on a live internet telecast. Betrayed by the bureau when they were left without backup. Her boyfriend and her best friend both died. Trask, the mastermind behind the telecast of the rape and murder has been on the run. But he has not forgotten the woman who has thwarted him. His hatred for women has put her at the top of his list of most wanted victims.

Dillion Kincaid is a forensic physchiatrist. He has dealt with the darkness of many sociopaths. But this one has made it personal. Dillion and his family of cops and agents have 48 hours to find and save their sister, Lucy. She has been kidnapped and taken to an unknown location where she is raped and brutalized for the preverted animals willing to pay to watch.

This is a dark thriller with sense of urgency, I was not able to put it down. The menace of Trask and his genius is very evident. The horror of the things Lucy faces is brutal. I very much enjoyed the book and I hope we do get the story of all the wonderful characters in the book. If you read the others in the series SPEAK NO EVIL, and SEE NO EVIL you will recognize the characters from those books here.

If you like a dark, violent, thriller this book is for you.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best of the trilogy, April 5, 2007

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Janet (Colorado) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fear No Evil: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

This was my favorite of the Evil trilogy because the reader got to know all the Kincaids in books 1 and 2 and they played prominent parts in book 3. We even got to meet and love the mysterious Jack Kincaid. Making Lucy, a character readers came to know and like, the victim of the vicious villain upped the suspense and scare level.

This was an edge of your seat, can't put down thriller with an intelligent and romantic love story thrown into the mix.

Warning - this isn't for the faint of heart. Some, many, scenes are brutal, violent, and very frank. It was scary, but a very enjoyable read. Allison Brennan is one of the best romantic suspense authors I have read and I can't wait for her next trilogy.

Now I can catch up on the sleep I missed while I couldn't put Fear No Evil down.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dire six stars story, July 5, 2007

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Jorge Frid (Mexico City) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fear No Evil: A Novel (Mass Market Paperback)

The gruesome story of men or women that harass teenagers is really repulsive. We need to harp our children and ourselves to be very careful with all the chats in the internet with people either they know them or not. I can't tell you that this is a nice story but definitively a must read and learn of it.

Now let's start counting stars:

1 The book'll thrill you from the first page till you finish it. Including the very last page. This mean that the book never goes out of the main plot.

2 You'll see that the police, FBI, CIA or whatever not always are to "Serve and protect" but to do only their prime job.

3 This awesome story is a reality and we must open our eyes to see it. You'll have to learn how to protect your family and friends.

4 Writing about this heinous subject and at the same time thrilling you with the police work is not an easy task.

5 The story is so well written you won't be able to close the book till the end.

6 Because is a really good book.