Vanished: a Christian fiction mystery

    What would happen if the victim of a deadly car crash on a secluded country road simply disappeared? Vanished opens with a shadowy figure caught in the beam of reporter Moira Harrison’s headlights – followed by a solid thump before she loses control and crashes into a tree. But when Moira regains consciousness, the victim is nowhere to be seen.

    The police say the disappearance never happened, but Moira can’t forget the look of sheer terror she saw on the person’s face in the instant it was caught in the glare of her headlights. Now her only hope of discovering the truth is a former police detective turned private eye—and her own investigate skills.

 

    Irene Hannon, a former communications executive for a Fortune 500 company, left the corporate world in 2003 to focus on her growing fiction brand. While continuing to write contemporary romance, she also delved into suspense. From the beginning, her romantic suspense books have garnered rave reviews. Booklist named Deadly Pursuit (Revell, 2011) one of the top ten inspirational fiction titles for 2011. The final book in her Guardians of Justice series, Lethal Legacy (Revell, 2011) received a starred review from Library Journal, which praised the book for its “compelling characters and edge-of-your-seat action.”

    She is the author of more than 40 novels, including the bestselling Heroes of Quantico and Guardians of Justice series. Her books have been honored with two coveted RITA awards from Romance Writers of America, a Carol Award, a HOLT Medallion, a National Readers’ Choice Award, a Daphne du Maurier Award, a Retailers Choice Award and two Reviewers' Choice Awards from RT Book Reviews magazine. She lives in Missouri.

    To find another new series by one of my favorite authors was an early Christmas present I didn't expect.  Irene Hannon has outdone herself in Vanished, book one of her new series, Private Justice.  Vanished is a tightly plotted, fast-moving mystery that leaves the reader wishing there were at least a couple more chapters to enjoy.  In reality, we will be able to observe Moira and Cal at a distance in the next book in this series, which will be out next fall!

    Moira is a gutsy reporter who runs into some trouble on a dark and rainy night.  She sees a face, but before she can stop, she has hit the person and run off the road.  A good Samaritan stops to see how she is and if she were injured - and then disappears.  Who was he, and why can't she remember?  Moria's instincts as a reporter drive her to hire a private investigator, Cal, to help her solve the mystery.

    To say that this is a book I just couldn't put down sounds trite, but it is true.  As with other books I have read by Irene Hannon, this is a well written, well researched book that I, for one, will reread just for the pleasure of an enjoyable story.

Vanished is available January 2013 at your favorite bookseller - from Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group.

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Julieanne
Joy In Our Journey.com

    I received one copy of Vanished for the purpose of sharing Joy In Our Journey's honest review of this book with you.  No other compensation was provided.

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