In her newest romantic-suspense novel,
critically-acclaimed author Irene Hannon asks herself what would happen if the
victim of a deadly car crash on a secluded country road simply disappeared? Vanished is the gripping first novel in
Hannon’s Private Justice series. It
opens with a shadowy figure caught in the beam of reporter Moira Harrison’s
headlights – followed by a solid thump before she loses control and crashes
into a tree. But when Moira regains consciousness, the victim is nowhere to be
seen.
The
police say the disappearance never happened, but Moira can’t forget the look of
sheer terror she saw on the person’s face in the instant it was caught in the
glare of her headlights. Now her only hope of discovering the truth is a former
police detective turned private eye—and her own investigate skills.
As
often happens for Hannon, the genesis of this story came out of the blue,
triggered by a simple incident.
“I
was driving home from church one rainy night and my headlights fell on a
bicyclist on the edge of the narrow road. I swerved to avoid him, thinking what
a risk he was taking. Then the wheels in my brain started turning and I began
what-iffing. What if a woman was driving alone on a country road and suddenly
caught a desperate figure in her headlights? What if she swerved, but hit the
figure? What if a stranger appeared out of the darkness to offer assistance
before she lost consciousness? What if she woke up and both the stranger and the
victim had disappeared? My five-second encounter on that rainy night was the
impetus not only for this book, but for my whole Private Justice series, which
focuses on situations that have fallen through the cracks of official law
enforcement or been dismissed by the police.”
I love trying new books by new authors, and while Irene Hannon isn't new to me, she's quickly becoming a favorite by all the people who I've shared her books with, my mom included. Her books remind me of dee henderson's novels, and they're always a treat.
“Available January 2013 at your favorite bookseller from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
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