The Naked Eye

by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

Overview

How can you catch a killer when everyone thinks he's dead?

Kendra Michaels was instrumental in bringing serial killer Eric Colby to justice. And yet, despite his apparent execution at San Quentin, Kendra is convinced that Colby is still alive. The problem is that she can't prove it. Even her razor-sharp powers of observation-developed to an amazing capacity during the twenty years she spent blind and now in constant demand by law enforcement agencies-have gotten her nowhere.

But then a reporter who very publicly humiliated Kendra is murdered. Visiting the crime scene in search of anything that might link the brutal homicide to Colby, Kendra instead finds evidence that points to her. Finally Colby's master plan becomes clear to her: he is framing Kendra for murder.

Suspicions mount and Kendra is thrust into deadly pursuit to clear her name and catch the killer no one believes exists anymore. A killer who is always nearby, watching, waiting to make his next move, even as everyone believes him to be dead. A killer whose trail of destruction is invisible to the naked eye, despite the carnage he leaves in his wake. It will take everything Kendra has to find and stop Colby-and save her own life one more time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781250878014
Publisher:	St. Martin's Press
Publication date:	12/29/2015
Series:	Kendra Michaels Series , #3
Pages:	384
Sales rank:	700,371
Product dimensions:	6.13(w) x 9.25(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

IRIS JOHANSEN is The New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Witness, Live to See Tomorrow, Silencing Eve, Hunting Eve, Taking Eve, Sleep No More, What Doesn't Kill You, Bonnie, Quinn, Eve, Chasing The Night, Eight Days to Live, Blood Game, Deadlock, Dark Summer, Pandora's Daughter, Quicksand, Killer Dreams, On The Run, Countdown, Firestorm, Fatal Tide, Dead Aim, No One To Trust and more.

ROY JOHANSEN is an Edgar Award winning author and the son of Iris Johansen. He has written many well-received mysteries, including Deadly Visions, Beyond Belief and The Answer Man.

Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen have together written Close Your Eyes, Shadow Zone, Storm Cycle, and Silent Thunder.

Editorial Reviews

05/25/2015
In bestseller Johansen and son’s exciting third novel featuring Kendra Michaels (after 2014’s Sight Unseen), Kendra, a law-enforcement consultant whose senses of smell and hearing are extraordinarily acute, believes that serial killer Eric Colby is still alive, even though he was supposedly executed by lethal injection at California’s San Quentin State Prison months earlier. Meanwhile, San Diego reporter Sheila Hunter, who’s eager to interview Kendra, runs a newspaper story that supports Kendra’s theory about Colby. Dismayed that Sheila’s story has tipped off Colby, Kendra agrees to talk to the reporter. Just hours after their meeting, Sheila turns up dead, hanging from the mast of a house boat in a local marina. The MO suggests that Colby could be the killer. Beth, the sister of Eve Duncan (the star of Iris Johansen’s main series), joins Kendra in a thrilling race against time to stop a killer who seems to follow Kendra’s every move. Agent: Andrea Cirillo, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (July)

Publishers Weekly

“A complex cat-and-mouse game...[will] keep [readers] eagerly anticipating the next installment.” —Booklist on Sight Unseen

“Filled with frightening twists and terrifying turns...the reader's heart will be racing the entire time.” —RT Book Reviews (4 ½ stars) on Sight Unseen

“A thrill-a-minute, chill-a-minute thriller that keeps reader[s] on the edge of their seats.” —Reader to Reader on Sight Unseen

“Edgy...[a] flashy romantic thriller.” —Publishers Weekly on Sight Unseen

“Shocking...with a vibrant cast of characters to hold the reader's attention throughout.” —Fresh Fiction on Sight Unseen

From the Publisher

02/01/2015
Having regained her sight after years of blindness, Kendra Michaels is an especially acute observer, but even she doesn't see it coming when a serial killer frames her for the murder of a police detective with whom she's scuffled in the past. At least she's getting help from Beth Avery, the troubled sister of Eve Duncan, star of Iris Johansen's New York Times best-selling series; then she hears from Eve herself.

Library Journal