Alan Jacobson, Author Perseus/Vanguard $25.95 (420p) ISBN 978-1-59315-494-3
In Jacobson’s tepid third thriller (after Hunted
and False Accusations
), FBI profiler Karen Vail is obsessed with bringing to justice the Dead Eyes Killer, who’s gruesomely slain several women in Virginia. The action alternates between
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Alan Jacobson, Author . Perseus/Vanguard $25.95 (392p) ISBN 978-1-59315-548-3
In Jacobson's addictive second Karen Vail thriller (after The 7th Victim
), a serial killer spoils the FBI profiler's romantic Napa Valley vacation with boyfriend Det. Robby Hernandez. During a Silver Ridge Estates winery tour, Karen and...
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Alan Jacobson, Perseus/Vanguard, $25.95 (400p) ISBN 978-1-59315-621-3
Jacobson’s third thriller featuring FBI profiler Karen Vail (after Crush) sizzles with nonstop action and startling details about drug trafficking. When Karen’s lover, Det. Robby Hernandez, disappears in California’s Napa Valley while she’s busy...
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Alan Jacobson. Premier Digital Publishing (Canadian Manda Group, Canadian dist.; Ingram, U.S. dist.), $17.99 trade paper (439p) ISBN 978-1-62467-084-8
Apparently not intended as a parody, Jacobson's fifth Karen Vail novel (after 2011's Inmate 1277) is as hilarious as it is absurd. FBI profiler Vail is called from an assignment in Spain to Britain to lend her steadfastly provincial talents to the...
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Alan Jacobson. Open Road, $17.99 trade paper (432p) ISBN 978-1-62467-271-2
Jacobson's intriguing sixth Karen Vail novel (after 2013's No Way Out) chronicles the first case that his heroine handled as a rookie NYPD patrol officer. In 1995, Vail views her first murder victim, a woman savagely attacked in a Manhattan...
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Alan Jacobson. Open Road, $16.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-1-5040-0363-6
Jacobson’s entertaining third OPSIG Team Black novel (after 2012’s Hard Target) contains enough edge-of-your-seat action sequences to fill a handful of Mission Impossible movies. When the members of the Operations Support Intelligence Group, an...
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Alan Jacobson. Open Road, $16.99 ISBN 978-1-5040-4171-3
Jacobson’s so-so seventh Karen Vail novel (after 2014’s Spectrum) opens in a Washington, D.C., TV studio, where a talk show host is interviewing Jasmine Marcks about the book she’s written about her father, Roscoe Lee Marcks (aka the Blood Lines...
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Alan Jacobson, Author Atria Books $23 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-02678-3
An apparent hit-and-run accident involving a car he owns results in a charge of vehicular manslaughter against an orthopedic surgeon in this laborious debut by California medical evaluator Jacobson. Two people die in what turns out to be a...
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Alan Jacobson, Author Atria Books $24.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-671-02680-6
Questions of identity are at the heart of Jacobson's follow-up to the suspense thriller False Accusations. Unfortunately, despite an unexpected twist at the end, those questions are trapped in a by-the-numbers plot. As the novel begins, three men...
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Alan Jacobson. Norwood (www.norwoodpress.com), $29.99 (453p) ISBN 978-0-9836260-0-8
In Jacobson's complex fourth novel featuring FBI profiler Karen Vail (after Velocity), San Francisco Police Inspector Lance Burden turns to the D.C.-based Vail for help in solving the murder of 82-year-old Maureen Anderson, who was tortured and...
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