Saturday, July 22, 2006

Iris Johansen - "Dead Aim" & "On The Run"

Is it obvious I am cleaning out the books that have accumulated and hidden on my bookshelf? "Dead Aim", published in 2003, this is a great page turner about a photo journalist who witnesses a crime beyond proportions while trying to photograph what appears to be a natural catastrophe. She and an unlikely person are paired together in a run for their lives as they discover more and more information that involves more people than just the average criminals.

"On the Run" puts a mother and daughter together in a run for their lives. It all ties back into the mother's interesting, yet dangerous past, and takes them from a small southern farm, to the wild west and across the world. Once again, the main character witnesses something but the real crime is hidden somewhere beneath what is seen, so for the entirety of the book she and her daughter don't exactly know what they are running from and towards. It keeps you guessing, as well as "Dead Aim".

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