Fear No Evil
Allison Brennan
Ballantine, April 2007, $6.99
ISBN 0345495047

Five years ago, FBI Agent Kate Donovan and her partner Paige were after Trask, who has been putting on shows on the internet for $50,000 a pop for users who want to see a woman raped, tortured, or killed. Paige and Kate thought they had him cornered but they had no back-up as was promised. Trask kidnapped Paige and killed both her and Kate's lover. For the next five years, Kate used all her computer and hunting skills to find him.

Five years later, Trask is still putting on his shows and his latest victim is Lucy Kincaid. Lucy's brother Dillon, a psychiatrist, and his brother Jack track Kate to her mountain hideaway in Mexico. Dillon persuades Kate to let them help her find Lucy before the time limit is up. Working together, Dillon and Kate realize they are falling in love, but first they have to save Lucy and catch Trask; two situations that could end in their deaths.

FEAR NO EVIL is a tense, romantic, suspense thriller in which the relationship between the two heroes is beautifully woven throughout the save-Lucy storyline. Allison Brennan rotates perspectives between several characters, allowing readers to know what motivates them. The author cleverly imbues in the plot the danger of meeting someone from an online site and emphasizes the point subtly and cleverly several times throughout the latest Kincaid war against evil tale.

Harriet Klausner