Reviewed by Sharon W.
January 19, 2006
"...moved quickly toward a startling and exciting ending."
Former FBI agent Rowan Smith left the FBI because she couldn't handle the emotional turmoil any longer. She became a writer and wrote what she knew. She thinks she's made a new life for herself, but then her peace is shattered.
A woman is murdered and the FBI aren't the only ones who notice that the murder is an exact copy of a murder in Rowan's first book, from the victim's name to the victims work. The similarities are frightening, and this murder isn't the last.
John Flynn, along with his brother Michael, is a bodyguard who has been hired to protect Rowan. John has watched his brother get too close too often, so he's on the lookout for trouble. But struck by Rowan's ability to keep herself together under the circumstances, John starts to fall for her himself.
Rowan and John are sympathetic, likable characters. Rowan has to deal with her past to find the killer now and danger is closer than she realizes. The story was fast-paced and moved quickly toward a startling and exciting ending.
With her masterful build-up of suspense, Ms. Brennan has made me anxious to read her next book. I would gladly recommend this book to a friend.
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Book Description for The Prey
First, she imagined it.
Then a killer made it real.
Rowan Smith is living in a borrowed Malibu beach house while her bestselling novel is made into a Hollywood movie. A former FBI agent with a haunted past, Rowan thinks she has outrun her demons. But fiction and reality collide when a dismembered body is found in Colorado: the real-life victim has the same name, occupation, and looks as a character in Rowan's novel. By the time the FBI, the LAPD, and her own private bodyguard gather around her, another person is killed--again, the murder ripped from the pages of Rowan's book.
In the company of a former Delta Force officer with secrets of his own, Rowan faces an excruciating dilemma: the only way to chase down the tormenting killer is by revisiting the darkness of her past--and by praying for some way out again.
