Andrea Kane Twisted

A consummate professional, Joyce Bean delivers a can't-stop-listening-to narration of Andrea Kane's latest thriller. Not just anyone could gain access to the FBI's top-secret Quantico facility but best-selling author Andrea Kane could and did. As you listen to Twisted, you'll believe you're there with her every fascinating, grueling, shocking step of the way.

You'll not be able to turn it off after hearing Ms. Bean deliver the following opening lines: "She was a true warrior. Even the weapon hadn't been enough to make her submit. Not like the others. Not until she'd felt the prick of the blade, sensed drops of her own blood........"

From the start we know that this author has created one of the most frightening psychopaths of recent memory. Who is he? Why is he committing this heinous act? Will there be another?

To answer these questions we meet Sloane Burbank, a former FBI agent. She left the Bureau to work as a negotiator after a stab wound deprived her of the use of one hand. Although she's now hard at work Sloane immediately responds when she receives a call from the parents of a childhood friend, Penny Truman, who went missing some time ago. Penny's father is a renowned cardiologist, so the family would have been prime for extortion but no such attempt was ever made.

Sloane's ex partner in the Cleveland office and former lover, Derek Parker, is the FBI agent in charge of Penny's case. He's busy elsewhere hoping to catch a man, Chen, also known as "Little Dragon." Three women have been slain in a similar manner - the only clue is that they all worked at Fukienese brothels which have been linked to Chen. Derek considers Penny's disappearance a closed case with no more paths to follow.

Nonetheless, Sloane prevails upon him to help her ( thus author Kane can show her skill at describing unresolved feelings between the two of them).

It soon becomes clear that Penny's disappearance may have been due to the machinations of the same killer responsible for the deaths of the prostitutes. As some of the pieces of the puzzle begin to fit it appears that Sloane is to be the next victim.

With traces of romance and an intriguing plot reinforced by assiduous research Kane has fashioned a chilling can't-put-down thriller. Joyce Bean's reading adds another dimension to this frightening tale.