Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1603 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-22
• Released on: 2008-04-22
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 352 pages

From Publishers Weekly
The action-packed 12th installment in bestseller Johansen's saga featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan (after Stalemate) is also a sequel of sorts to Pandora's Daughter, which chronicled the life of Megan Blair, an Atlanta physician with burgeoning psychic abilities. Intertwining the two disparate story lines intensifies both, as Johansen pits her two courageous female protagonists against a vicious serial killer who claims to have murdered Eve's seven-year-old daughter, Bonnie, years earlier. When Eve's love interest, Atlanta police lieutenant Joe Quinn, tracks down elusive child predator Henry Kistle to a small town in Illinois, Quinn alerts the local authorities and sets off a series of bloody events that lead Eve and Megan Blair to a remote area in the Okefenokee swamp where they'll either discover the whereabouts of Bonnie's body—or come face-to-face with a psychopath bent on killing and burying them all in unmarked graves. The adrenaline-fueled narrative will keep Johansen fans eagerly turning the pages. 600,000 first printing. (Apr.)
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Review
“A fast-paced, non-stop, clever plot in which Johansen mixes political intrigue, murder, and suspense.”
--USA Today on The Face of Deception
“[A] thrill ride…Action, romance, castles, bomb plots and booby-trapped hideaway in snowbound Idaho—what more could Johansen fans want?”
--Publishers Weekly on Countdown
“Intriguing suspense…her new tale will please both fans and new converts.”
--Booklist on Blind Alley
“Thoroughly gripping and with a number of shocking plot twists…packed all the righ elements into this latest work: intriguing characters; creepy, crazy villain; a variety of exotic locations.”
--New York Post on The Search

About the Author
IRIS JOHANSEN is the New York Times bestselling author of Killer Dreams, On the Run, Countdown, Firestorm, Fatal Tide, Dead Aim, No One to Trust, Stalemate and more. She lives near Atlanta, Georgia.

Customer Reviews

Excellent story for Eve Duncan fans
I thought this was great continuation of the Eve Duncan series. A whole cast of characters supported the story as Eve searches for victimized children and Bonnie. The book continued to reflect Joe's struggle with Eve's obsession with finding Bonnie.

Getting ready to jump the shark, but there isn't one around
The Eve Duncan series started out with a bang, but now it's just limping along. In various books, Eve has attracted the undying devotion of a series of wealthy and/or highly skilled and/or loving men, but I've never figured out why. Her main characteristic is that she is totally fixated on finding the body of her murdered daughter, Bonnie. Nothing gets in her way, nothing sidetracks her for a minute, and she makes absolutely no compromises for the sake of those who love her, or those she purports to love.

All the bad guys are bad without any possibility of redemption. It's as if Johansen sets up a cardboard target with BAD GUY printed across the heart. The one in this book, Kistle, has not one single human quality, no cause for his twisted soul is hinted at, and he seems to be there simply so that Eve can direct her laser sights on him.

The good guys are floundering; everyone wants Eve (why???) but no one can win her. Joe, who has been around since the first novel, actually comes to the point of saying he can't take this any more, but is sucker-punched at the end of the book in a way that guarantees he'll be back in the next installment.

The biggest problem is that all the female characters have exactly the same personalities and speak in exactly the same way. Megan, Eve and Jane are interchangeable. If someone read any of their dialog aloud to you, without telling you who was speaking, you'd have no idea. They're all driven, outspoken, blunt. One such heroine is fine, but there needs to be at least some variation in the characters.

Johansen switched from series and historical romances to romantic suspense thrillers some years ago, and, having found a method that works for her, she's driving it into the ground. I have all her books, but I'm starting to get very tired of the repetitious style.

"Quicksand" is the kind of book that, if you started reading it, put it down, and came back to it a year later, you wouldn't have missed it at all, and might not even bother to finish it. Time for Johansen to bring this series to a close before it sinks beneath the sands.

Quicksand, the Quick Read
I enjoyed reading Quicksand and breezed right through it although I find myself growing a tad weary of the Montalvo/Joe thing. Where, if anywhere is this thing going and what's really the point? Joe has stuck by Eve through the worst of times. How much more does he have to give and why should he keep on giving so much? I get it that Eve's worth it and all, but dang! Does anyone really see Eve and Montalvo as anything more than a quickie? I do enjoy the fact that Johansen continues to write great stories and can incorporate things like this into them, but if they're going to get it on...let it be!