About Angela Wilson
Location: Midwest
Occupation: Web Producer/Freelance Writer
Bio: I love to read - and write - and surf. My FAV genres include mysteries, romantic suspense and thrillers. I'm finally working on my own thriller (under a pen name) and writing a book on marketing/PR for authors. I blog about writing at www.wickedwordsmith.com, and have accounts on various sites. You can find me on MySpace, Facebook and more by visiting www.angelawilson.net.
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Kane’s move into the romantic thriller is destined to set this genre on fire.
Andrea Kane is one of my favorite authors. I’ve followed her career for years, through her historical romance stage, to the oh-so-hot romantic suspense novels. I was thrilled when I saw that Kane was moving in romantic thrillers with the likes of Sandra Brown, Jane Ann Krentz and Karen Robards. If anyone can make the transition, Kane can – and does with a flare that shows she has found her niche.
Sloane Burbank is a former FBI agent who now works as a consultant. A debilitating hand injury forced her to quit the job she loved more than a year ago. Agent Derek Parker is Sloane’s former lover – and the lead agent on a missing person’s case Sloane is now working. Sparks fly as these two wrestle with feelings that never went away and search for women missing at the hands of a sadistic killer whose ultimate target is Sloane.
I could not get enough of this book. Hot, intense, with two sexy lead characters thrown in the midst of grisly murders in the Northeast, Twisted is fast-paced, edgy and offers up a strong new voice in the genre. Kane’s in-depth research into the FBI – including one-on-one time at Quantico – offers up an authenticity you just don’t find in novels today; most authors cop out of details and fall into the CSI Anything Goes Syndrome. Not Kane. She uses bureau jargon throughout without hesitation, and even offers up a definition of acronyms and terms that will fascinate even the most widely-read police procedural reader. Her details of surveillance and the inner workings of a federal law enforcement agency ring with truth.
Sloane and Derek are characters you can’t get enough of. You can actually feel their pain, anger, lust and love. They are not the cookie cutter characters so prevalent in the genre today. They are unique and carry the story through to it’s explosive end.
The whodunit is hazy, though Kane does offer up a few clues that only veteran thriller readers will catch. It was great to be able to read a thriller and not guess the who and the why within the first five pages. Her red herrings were subtle, not obvious, as seems to be the norm in some serials.
This is Kane’s best work yet - and Twisted sets the stage for more great novels to come.
