Pandora's Daughter

by: Iris Johansen

Published by: St. Martin's Press

Reviewed by Shawn Remfrey

After having an extremely rough night in the emergency room, Dr. Megan Blair has an even rougher time on the way home. When a truck runs her off the road, it starts a chain reaction of events that lead her to take another look at her life. Though at first she assumes it’s a drunk driver, she quickly learns otherwise as her world is turned upside down. Knowing her mother has been dead for years, she presumes she’s been living with her uncle in what most would term a “normal life.”

With the return of an old family friend, Neal Grady, it comes to light that no one, most of all her, is normal. Slowly Megan starts to remember her past and her gift of being able to hear voices. What starts out for her as a path to healing, branches off into a path of mystery and murder.

Neal Grady has been protecting Megan for years. He knows of her gift to hear voices, but he doesn’t know how far her gifts extend. For a long time he has kept

her safe from a distance, but now manifests an evil that he can only fight in person. The time has come to tell Megan who and what she is, and to be there to make sure she survives it.

Pandora’s Daughter led me on the roller coaster ride of a lifetime. Though I don’t read alot of thrillers, I was entranced from the first page and could not put the book down. Both main characters are strong, stubborn and have a strong sense of their own morality. In the background we have an even stronger cast helping them along the way. The evil that they must struggle against is so strong and terrifying that the reader begs and pleads in their mind for it to have a long, painful death.

Wonderful twists and turns throughout the plot kept me from guessing what was going to happen next. I definitely plan to search for every Iris Johansen book I can find.

Armchair Interviews says: Iris Johansen does it again.

Author’s Web site: http://www.IrisJohansen.com