The naked eye

Special agent Kendra Michaels never believed her arch-nemesis, Eric Colby, died in the gas chamber at San Quentin. A killer as ruthless and well-connected as Colby would never let the system take him down. But Michaels is the only one in Southern California law enforcement who believes he's still out there, even after a string of garish murders bearing Colby's signature MO occur across the San Diego area. Using his extensive network of cyber-terrorists to get into Michaels' home and computer and, most important, under her skin, Colby ups the ante and kills a respected local cop, finally bringing the rest of the force and the FBI around to Michaels' way of thinking. Michaels knows she's Colby's ultimate victim, but will his promised threat to first take out people close to her be thwarted in time? Reintroducing numerous characters from their extensive backlist of Michaels thrillers, including Sight Unseen (2014), the Johansens power-up the emotional stakes in this page-turning thriller that cements Michaels' reputation as a force to be reckoned with.--Haggas, Carol Copyright 2015 Booklist

In bestseller Johansen and son's exciting third novel featuring Kendra Michaels (after 2014's Sight Unseen), Kendra, a law-enforcement consultant whose senses of smell and hearing are extraordinarily acute, believes that serial killer Eric Colby is still alive, even though he was supposedly executed by lethal injection at California's San Quentin State Prison months earlier. Meanwhile, San Diego reporter Sheila Hunter, who's eager to interview Kendra, runs a newspaper story that supports Kendra's theory about Colby. Dismayed that Sheila's story has tipped off Colby, Kendra agrees to talk to the reporter. Just hours after their meeting, Sheila turns up dead, hanging from the mast of a house boat in a local marina. The MO suggests that Colby could be the killer. Beth, the sister of Eve Duncan (the star of Iris Johansen's main series), joins Kendra in a thrilling race against time to stop a killer who seems to follow Kendra's every move. Agent: Andrea Cirillo, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (July) © Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.