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Another hit from Jordan Dane...., May 24, 2008
It all starts with a dead body left garishly displayed at St. Sebastian's Chapel....
Detectives Raven Mackenzie and Tony Rodriguez are assigned the murder case and the trail leads them straight to Dunhill Corporation and its owner, Fiona Dunhill. Fiona insists on a joint investigation with her head of security, Christian Delacorte, and she has the political clout to ensure it happens. Raven has to wonder what secrets Fiona and Christian are hiding, particularly as the investigation soon turns deadly in a much more personal way. Will the dark secrets of the past come out if there is NO ONE LEFT TO TELL?
Jordan Dane juxtaposes lightness and darkness throughout NO ONE LEFT TO TELL. Some of the scenes are quite graphic but the brutality is tempered by a sense of hope and rebirth. Second chances are a key theme of Jordan Dane's work and this is ever-present in NO ONE LEFT TO TELL. No matter how much a character veers towards evil or good, each character is given an opportunity for a second chance, even perhaps redemption. Jordan Dane shows true brilliance with her intricate storyline and deep rooted emotional themes that are sure to resonate with the readers.
Jordan Dane's characters always walk the knife edge in their quests to do the right thing. Christian in particular is a haunting figure, a man filled with mystery and intrigue. Raven is far more open but her attraction to Christian puts her in the dubious position of being caught between the career she loves and the man she is starting to love. The emotional rollercoaster that both these characters take the reader on can be almost overwhelming in its intensity.
NO ONE LEFT TO TELL is the sophomore effort from an author who is quickly showing she is a force to be reckoned with. Readers should note that NO ONE LEFT TO TELL is essentially a stand alone story although there are some threads left hanging for Ms. Dane's next release. NO ONE LEFT TO TELL is a dark thriller that is both captivating and intriguing.
COURTESY OF CK2S KWIPS AND KRITIQUES
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Gripping and Literate, a rare combination, January 6, 2009
Let me keep this simple. I own all of Jordan Dane's thrillers. I have read ALL of them at least twice. And I'm very much looking forward to the next.
Jordan has a palette of words which will tickle your intelligence and grab you with immersion in a time and place which becomes completely real.
Wonderful plots, twists, and some passionate steam fill out the picture.
Don't take my word for it. Read it yourself.
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Tension, conspiracies, thruths and lies... Who could ask for more!, August 24, 2008
An assassin is hunted, murdered, and left hanging inside a church, a cryptic note pinned to his chest. At first, detectives Raven Mackenzie and Tony Rodriguez think it may be the work of religious radicals, until they identify the man.
But the investigation leads to dangerous territory. The man worked for one of the top crime bosses in the city, who is also female, Fiona Dunhill. Fiona, feeling the heat, takes off and disappears to parts unknown, leaving her head of security, Christian Delacorte, to deal with the aftermath.
Plagued with nightmares of a childhood trauma, Delacorte faces his fear of the dark daily with an exercise where he is blindfolded, using all of his other senses to detect everything around him. After the slaughter of his parents and sister, Fiona had taken him in and took care of him. But this time, even Christian's loyalty to Fiona is tested. Memories begin to surface in his nightmares, and Raven is sure that this who fiasco is because of his past.
The more the memories surface, the more Raven is determined to help Christian solve it, and the case. Things turn ugly when the shooting starts and her partner is put out of commission. Christian doesn't like what he remembers of his past, and with Raven getting under his skin, he is determined to deal with it - and keep Raven out of danger. But someone has other plans.
The killer is now fixated on Raven. She is the very image that he likes, and the whole thing tastes even better to him once he realizes that Raven's father had been one of the first officers to ever arrest him, the first officer to see `dead grey eyes'. But now he's out and revenge tastes all that much more sweeter when Raven is thrown into the spotlight.
The plot is thick with mazes in this story, and while I did feel a connection between Raven and Christian in this one, it could have been stronger. And while we learn the truth about Christian's past, Fiona still holds back from him, including who his biological father really is. We know who he is, but Christian doesn't, and now he's having a very hard time trusting Fiona. Lots of action and suspense, I thought it was a pretty good read. Can't wait to read the next.
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