Hand of Evil


Unabridged Audiobook

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17
Narrator
4
Release Date
December 2007
Duration
10 hours 26 minutes
Summary
New York Times bestselling author J.A. Jance returns with her “compelling…satisfying” (USA TODAY) third novel in the gripping suspense series featuring ex-television journalist Ali Reynolds.

With 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 San Juan Road in Phoenix’s South Mountain Preserve. 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 from the remains, a killer begins crisscrossing the Southwest on a spree of grisly murders.

A hundred miles away, Ali Reynolds is grieving. The news-casting 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 decades earlier suddenly asks her for a meeting, Ali wonders what it can mean. Before she can satisfy her curiosity, though, Ali 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 center of which stand two undiscriminating killers.

Hand of Evil is Jance at her best, weaving a masterful story of suspense that travels over generations, exposing two very different women with the same horrifying secret. Will Ali become a victim herself, or will she escape from a deadly deceit that no amount of security—financial or emotional—can cover up?
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Selena McGill

Multiple plots going on simultaneously make for an intriguing read!

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estella krebs

I really enjoy the way she includes more than one storyline. It reall keeps your interest and attention.

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Lila

A good read, interesting, but so improbable as to make you roll your eyes. 1) An elderly lady - must be in her 80's is found to be a murderer, and kidnaps Ali. 2) She kidnaps her in a yellow Rolls Royce! Like the police can't find this one in a heartbeat. 3) Kidnapper takes Ali to a distant location, get out of the car, shoots a glass jar containing (the kidnapper's) brother's hand - which has been in a bottle of formaldehyde for 70 years. Then drives calmly back to her home where the butler greets and disarms her. Oh, please! Still an interesting read.

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Sue

Another very good story from J. A. Jance! Good story line- keeps you right there on edge. Shouldn't want to sleep though this one. Great story!

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Jean

I prefer unabridged books but this was the only one available. It is the usual good story that J.A. Jance can weave. I think I prefer her Joanna Brady series but did enjoy this one. I was surprised at the ending and feel I have been left hanging or maybe I should use my own imagination to finish the story. Good for a short trip or walk.

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