Crimson Eve by Brandilyn Collins
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Brandilyn Collins is a best-selling novelist known for her trademark Seatbelt Suspense™. These harrowing crime thrillers have earned her the tagline “Don’t forget to b r e a t h e…® ” She’s so well known in the industry there’s actually a club for her non-readers. That’s right. The Big Honkin’ Chickens Club (BHCC) members are proud of the fact that they’re too wimpy to read Brandilyn’s intense fiction. Now and then one of them tries. Bribing works pretty well. (Just ask Deb Raney.) Somehow they live to tell the tale.Brandilyn writes for Zondervan, the Christian division of HarperCollins Publishers, and is currently at work on her 17th book. Her first book, A Question of Innocence, was a true crime published by Avon in 1995. Its promotion landed her on local and national TV and radio, including the Phil Donahue and Leeza talk shows.
She’s also known for her distinctive book on fiction-writing techniques, Getting Into Character: Seven Secrets a Novelist Can Learn From Actors (John Wiley & Sons), and often teaches at writers conferences. Brandilyn blogs at Forensics and Faith.
Visit her website to read the first chapters of all her books.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Carla stared at the gun and David Thornby—or whatever his name was. Her mind split in two, one side pleading this was some sick joke, the other screaming it was all too real.“Please. You must have the wrong person. There’s no reason for someone to want me dead. I don’t have any enemies.”
“Then you’d best rethink your friends.”
Realtor Carla Radling shows an “English gentleman” a lakeside estate—and finds herself facing a gun. Who has hired this assassin to kill her, and why?
Forced on the run, Carla must uncover the scathing secrets of her past. Secrets that could destroy some very powerful people...
Brandilyn Collins fans and reviewers are saying Crimson Eve is her best book yet:
“Collins tops herself by creating a suspenseful nonstop thrill ride … Truly the best Christian Fiction suspense title so far this year.”
– Library Journal, starred review“Crimson Eve is Collins at her very best. It left me feeling as if I’d climbed Mount Everest without oxygen … I didn’t think Brandilyn could outdo herself after reading Coral Moon. She did.”
–TitleTrakk.com“I’ve never edited a more tightly crafted, deftly woven, compellingly written book.” –a Crimson Eve editor, with 20 years experience
“This is your best book! I could not stop reading!” – one of many readers with similar responses
Read about Violet Dawn and Coral Moon, books one and two in the Kanner Lake series.
My Review:
Collins again does a fabulous job with this book! This is one of my favorites of hers so far. The plight of Carla, the realtor from Kanner Lake who we've met only briefly in the first two books, as she runs from a hitman who has threatened to kill everyone she cares about if she turns to someone for help, is engaging and intense. I couldn't put it down!
Once again, Collins reveals pieces to the story's puzzle through snipits of flashbacks that draw you in and leave you reading for more to solve the mystery of Carla's secrets from her past. Meanwhile, the characters' viewpoints also contribute to the storyline as the reader is taken into each one's perspective on the events unfolding.
I found myself looking at Carla's situation through thoughts of "what would I do in that situation?" Can you imagine...she's showing someone a house and he turns a gun on her and tells her he's a hitman coming to kill her? I'm not sure I would have the sense to be able to even escape the situation, much less be able to hide out and escape from him. Carla's desperate thoughts of escape are the fuel that feeds this book. She has to figure out who wants her killed, she has to get away from the hitman who has threatened to kill her friends if she turns to them or the police for help, she learns that some law enforcement are in on the plans to kill her so she doesn't know who to trust, she doesn't know where to go, and she has someone trying to reach her who knows more to her past and the secrets she keeps.
If you like suspense, grab yourself this book and snuggle up for a good one! I give this book my sunny day rating!
