Reviewed By: Harriet Klausner
The Face of Deception
Amazon US PB Amazon US HC Amazon Canada PB Amazon Canada HC
Iris Johansen
Class/Genre: Mystery Psychological Suspense Thriller Political Intrigue
Series: Eve Duncan / Joe Quinn
Bantam, Nov 1998, $23.95
Ralph Andrew Frazier shared plenty in common with Ted Bundy. Both had plenty of charm and were handsome, and both were mass killers. Before being stopped, Ralph murdered thirteen children even though he was legally executed for killing only one child whose corpse he was unable to dispose of in time. Eight years have passed since Ralph's reign of terror ended, but a mother of one of the victims, Eve Duncan, still has no closure because the psychopath never revealed where he interred the remains.
To compensate for her inability to properly bury her child, Eve has become one of the nation's leading forensic sculptors. She has the uncanny ability to construct a face from a skull, thereby identifying the remains of missing people. Billionaire John Logan hires Eve to use her talent to ascertain the identity of a skull he possesses. Unbeknownst to Eve is that determining who the deceased is will become a very dangerous accomplishment. A conspiratorial group in the highest political offices in the land are perpetuating a hoax on the American public and will kill anyone who threatens to expose them and their secret .
A mother's loss is turned into a crusade to help other people find the closure denied to her; while a true patriot needs to prove his conspiracy theory which he feels threatens the ssence of democracy. These two lost souls converge in a dangerous but believable situation that will enthrall conspiracy buffs as well as entertaining fans of psychological suspense. Iris Johansen accomplishes this and more in THE FACE OF DECEPTION, which is bound to be a bestseller
Harriet Klausner
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