The Left-Handed Twin

Written by Thomas Perry

Narrated by Joyce Bean

Jane Whitefield helps people disappear. Fearing for their lives, fleeing dangerous situations, her clients come to her when they need to vanish completely-to assume a new identity and establish a new life somewhere they won't be found. And when people are desperate enough to need her services, they come to the old house in western New York where Jane was raised to begin their escape.

It's there that, one spring night, Jane finds a young woman fresh from LA with a whole lot of trouble behind her. After she cheated on her boyfriend, he dragged her to the home of the offending man and made her watch as he killed him. She testified against the boyfriend, but a bribed jury acquitted him, and now he's free and trying to find and kill her.

Jane agrees to help, and it soon becomes clear that outsmarting the murderous boyfriend is not beyond Jane's skills. But the boyfriend has some new friends: members of a Russian organized crime brotherhood. When they learn that Sara is traveling with a tall, dark-haired woman who makes people vanish, the Russians become increasingly interested in helping the boyfriend find the duo. They've heard rumors that such a woman existed-and believe that, if forcibly extracted, the knowledge she has of past clients could be worth millions.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Highbridge Company
• Release date: Jan 11, 2022
• ISBN: 9781696604628

Thomas Perry

Thomas Perry is the New York Times bestselling author of nearly thirty novels, including the critically acclaimed Jane Whitefield series, The Old Man, and The Butcher's Boy, which won the Edgar Award. He lives in Southern California. Follow Thomas on Facebook at @ThomasPerryAuthor.

Reviews for The Left-Handed Twin

[Carol Kubala · Rating: 3 out of 5 stars]

Several years ago I read a few of the Jane Whitefield series. It originally appealed to me on two levels, first that the character would help persons living with violence, domestic or otherwise, who needed to disappear to survive, secondly that Jane, a Native American, would share her culture, through history and lore in its pages.

As expected, Jane Whitefield hits the ground running when she visits her original homestead, not the one she shares with her surgeon husband. Finding what could be an intruder, one that could possibly be an enemy sent to do her harm, Jane cautiously interrogates the young woman as to who sent her and for what purpose. A bit reluctant at first to help this woman disappear, Jane is soon wholly on board. Fast paced as always. Joyce Bean confidently narrates the professional Jane Whitefield as you'd expect her to be. Bean's voice is able to change the timbre of Jane's client, Sara, to bring that character to life realistically.

Overall a fair addition to the series. Some think this could be the last in the series. This is not the impression I was left with.