The Left-Handed Twin: A Jane Whitefield Novel
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4.2 • 128 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
"Another stunner from a modern master."—Booklist (Starred Review)
Rescue artist Jane Whitefield leads a deadly crime syndicate on a wild chase through the Northeast
Jane Whitefield helps people disappear. Fearing for their lives, fleeing dangerous situations, her clients come to her when they need to vanish completely—to assume a new identity and establish a new life somewhere they won’t be found. And when people are desperate enough to need her services, they come to the old house in rural western New York where Jane was raised to begin their escape.
It’s there that, one spring night, Jane finds a young woman fresh from LA with a whole lot of trouble behind her. After she cheated on her boyfriend, he dragged her to the home of the offending man and made her watch as he killed him. She testified against the boyfriend, but a bribed jury acquitted him, and now he’s free and trying to find and kill her.
Jane agrees to help, and it soon becomes clear that outsmarting the murderous boyfriend is not beyond Jane’s skills. But the boyfriend has some new friends: members of a Russian organized crime brotherhood. When they learn that Sara is traveling with a tall, dark-haired woman who disappears people, the Russians become increasingly interested in helping the boyfriend find the duo. They’ve heard rumors that such a woman existed—and believe that, if forcibly extracted, the knowledge she has of past clients could be worth millions.
Thus begins a bloodthirsty chase that winds through the cities of the northeast before finally plunging into Maine’s Hundred Mile Wilderness. But in a pursuit where nothing can be trusted, one thing is certain: only one party—Jane or her pursuers—will emerge alive.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
At the start of Edgar winner Perry's engrossing eighth Jane Whitefield novel (after 2015's A String of Beads), Jane, a Native American guide who specializes in helping people in trouble disappear, finds a stranger, Sara Doughton, waiting for her one night in the Amherst, N.Y., house Jane shares with her new husband, surgeon Carey McKinnon. When Sara explains she's fled L.A. to escape a murderous former boyfriend bent on revenge, Jane agrees to help. Meanwhile, the ex-boyfriend enlists the aid of some Russian criminals, who soon take an interest in Jane. After relocating Sara in Boston with a new identity, Jane attempts to lose her pursuers in Maine on the Appalachian Trail. Utilizing wisdom from her Seneca ancestors and some bad-ass survival skills, Jane matches wits with a gang of elite killers. Though a few sequences strain credibility, Perry delivers nonstop action, relentless tension, and such three-dimensional secondary characters as the female thief Magda. Jane's developing relationship with Carey is a plus. Fans will hope they won't have to wait another six years for Jane's next outing.
Customer Reviews
Thrill Master
A can’t-put-down thriller that kept me up all night, having to find out if Perry had pulled Sherlock—prepare yourself!
Left Handed Twin
Requires believing six impossible things before breakfast to get through this book. Without committing a spoiler alert, it’s impossible to understand how this plot developed without supposedly-smart criminals getting where they needed to be without stopping to think about easy sources of information for about 20 seconds. Having hiked parts of the AT, I loved that section, but there’s otherwise a lot left to be desired on the logical framework.
Left- Handed Twin
I have loved Perry’s books with the exception of his last one.Sentence structure changed so much that I thought someone else wrote this.
The purpose of this book seems as a result of requests for more Jane. Not worth the wait nor cost.