My contribution to the letter T in the crime fiction alphabet.Another one of these reviews I wrote nearly 3 years ago, and published elsewhere. This is published for the first time on my blog.
Century, Random House, Mar 2007
FBI Agent Bernadette Saint Clare has many distinguishing features. At first sight she is a small person with a superficial resemblance to Mia Farrow. Then, if she discards her sunglasses, you notice she has devil's eyes, each eye a different colour. Bernadette's success as an FBI Agent, however, owes much to her "hidden" gift: an ability to see through the eyes of a criminal while holding an object the person has held.
The FBI finds Bernadette something of an embarrassment. Sceptics discount her gift altogether. She does have a tendency to follow prompts which her colleagues can't see or hear. Despite investigative successes resulting directly from Bernadette's "sight", she has been moved on through a succession of postings, finally to Shreveport, Minnesota.
A dog returning from an exploring trip to a nearby river brings his young master a rather gruesome trophy - a human hand. And so Bernadette Saint Clair begins her new posting with a new boss. Tony Garcia is a little different to her previous bosses; he wants to see where Bernadette's "gift" will take them. When a male body is found in the locality without a hand, it is Bernadette who alerts them to the fact that the hand the dog found is female.
July 2007 review, originally published on Murder and Mayhem
This series continues
Bernadette Saint Clare
1. Blind Spot (2007)
2. Blind Rage (2008)
3. Blind Sight (2009)
1 comment:
Kerrie - Sounds really interesting! Thanks for this review. Terri Parsons isn't an author I know, so it seems it's time for me to do some more adding to my TBR list : ).
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