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Hand of Evil
By J. A. Jance
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His hand trapped in the door of a speeding car, a man struggles to remain upright as he's dragged along a deserted stretch of mountain road. It's the perfect place to drive a man to his grave - literally. Starting with a crime so gruesome even prowling coyotes keep their distance, a killer begins crisscrossing the southern states on a spree of grisly murders.
A hundred miles away, Ali Reynolds is grieving. The newscasting job she once delighted in is gone and so is the philandering husband she loved and thought she knew. When a member of the family who gave Ali a generous scholarship for her education decades earlier suddenly requests a meeting, Ali wonders what it can mean. But before she can satisfy her curiosity, she receives another startling call: a friend's teenage daughter has disappeared. Ali offers to help but, in doing so, she unknowingly begins a quest that will reveal a deadly ring of secrets, at the centre of which stand two undiscriminating killers.
A hundred miles away, Ali Reynolds is grieving. The newscasting job she once delighted in is gone and so is the philandering husband she loved and thought she knew. When a member of the family who gave Ali a generous scholarship for her education decades earlier suddenly requests a meeting, Ali wonders what it can mean. But before she can satisfy her curiosity, she receives another startling call: a friend's teenage daughter has disappeared. Ali offers to help but, in doing so, she unknowingly begins a quest that will reveal a deadly ring of secrets, at the centre of which stand two undiscriminating killers.
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J. A. Jance
J.A. Jance is the New York Times bestelling author of the J.P Beaumont series, the Joanna Brady series, Edge of Evil, and three stand-alone thrillers. Born in South Dakota and brought up in Bisbee, Arizona, Jance lives with her husband in Seattle, Washington, and Tuscan, Arizona.
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Reviews for Hand of Evil
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- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5Ali Reynolds struggles to put aside her depression over her recent losses for the sake of everyone asking for her help. The woman who put Ali through college is being threatened for writing a memoir of her abusive childhood. Her oldest friend's daughter has gone missing, and is being hunted because she's witnessed an attack on a friend of Ali's father in the desert outside of Las Vegas. And she needs to speak with her own son. This is the 3rd book in a new series - it's OK but not great.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5An interesting story with a couple of good plot twists, but the ending was ultimately unsatisfying.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Ali Reynolds solves the crime of a missing daughter of her friend and the gruesome murder of Kip Hogan. anna Lee Ashcroft started a scholarship for poor but deserving high school women and Ali was the first recipient. So Ali could hardly refuse Anna's daughter's,Arabella request to see her. As Ali discovers things are not quite what they seem on the outside and she becomes embroiled in a murder. In the meantime her friend,Detective Dave Holman, recently divorced, finds out his daughter is missing. Ali steps in and manages to solve both crimes while still trying to corral her own life.Creepy and fast-paced this book cannot be put down until the end.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5I always enjoy reading an Ali Reynolds novel. This one was pretty good, but it did disappoint me a little bit. Not that the writing was bad or anything, just that it didn't feel suspenseful enough. Maybe it had too much going on. I don't know. I just feel that engaged while reading it. This follows blogger Ali Reynolds as she becomes involved in two murder cases. One involving the daughter of a friend. I do recommend reading it, it is still a pretty good book.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Checked this out from the library.I had read the first book in the series (Edge of Evil) a while ago and listed Web of Evil and Hand of Evil on my wishlist this fall. My daughter gave me Web of Evil for Christmas and I went to the library to get the 3rd book so I could read right through.I enjoyed the entire series and thus this particular book. At the conclusion, I can see that it's possible Jance will let this simply end as a trilogy instead of making it an ongoing series.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5From the first page, I was hooked. I literally could not put this book down. The story is filled with suspense, not just the 'whodunit' mystery.For those looking for and edge-of-your seat thiller, this novel is highly recommended.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5I enjoyed the plot as well as several of the characters. What bothered me is that the author buys in to celebrity culture by using a famous protagonist who is very wealthy and a former news anchor. I prefer books that examine what ordinary people do in extraordinary situations rather than celebrating the adventures of the rich and famous. The author is skilled and certainly has the ability to portray everywoman and everyman in a way that captures the reader's interest and ultimately renders a more universal message about humanity.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Like many people I get into routines and stick with them. I mention this trait in my first review of a J.A Jance book because my morning routine is to listen to an audiobook for the first half of my commute then switch to a radio station for the rest of the drive. I couldn't do that with Hand of Evil. Something about Jance's books (I've now listened to a second one) makes them too intriguing to turn off.I had a problem with Hand of Evil because the story is woven around two crimes which are connected by their nature, but not by anything specific, and a third crime that is only connected through the main character, Ali Reynolds. For that reason there was a lack of focus in the story and a feeling that so many unrelated crimes occurring at once was unbelievable.So why couldn't I stop listening?I think J.A. Jance's power comes through the humanity of her characters. Ali Reynolds has issues and problems. To some extent they are related. She's acts without thinking, which is emphasized with her tendency to confront even in dangerous situations. We readers get to know and care about her, so when she puts herself in dangerous situations we care. We curse at her foolishness, but hope for the best as we continue to read or listen.I've listened to two of the Ali Reynolds series and I plan to listen to another. The order was based on the availability through our library rather than the series order. J.A. Jance does a good job of letting her readers know what's going on in Ali Reynolds' personal life, so the fact that I listened to them out of sequence didn't seem to affect my final enjoyment. Hand of Evil is a fun story for anyone who likes crime novels.Steve Lindahl – author of Motherless Soul and White Horse Regressions