Hindsight (Kendra Michaels Series #7)

by Iris Johansen, Roy Johansen

Overview

Investigator Kendra Michaels — once blind and known for her sharp skills — puts her life on the line to catch a killer in this electrifying novel from the #1 NYT bestselling and Edgar Award-winning duo.


Dr. Kendra Michaels, blind for the first twenty years of her life before gaining her sight via a revolutionary surgical procedure, is a renowned investigator known for her razor-sharp senses — honed during her years in the dark — and keen deductive abilities.


Now her skills are needed uncomfortably close to home. Two staff members have been murdered at a school for the blind where Kendra spent her formative years. But the murders are puzzlingly dissimilar: one victim was brutally stabbed, while the other was killed by a bullet to the head. Are the crimes related? Or is Kendra on the hunt for more than one dangerous killer?


With the killer (or killers) still on the loose, Kendra must put her life on the line to unravel a terrifying conspiracy. But Kendra soon discovers that she herself may hold the key to the deadliest secret of all.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538762929
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	01/07/2020
Series:	Kendra Michaels Series , #7
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

Iris Johansen is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than fifty consecutive bestsellers. Her series featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has sold over twenty million copies and counting and was the subject of the acclaimed Lifetime movie The Killing Game. Along with her son, Roy, Iris has also co-authored the New York Times bestselling series featuring investigator Kendra Michaels. Johansen lives near Atlanta, Georgia.

Roy Johansen began his professional writing career with his original screenplay for "Murder 101," for which he won the national FOCUS award, sponsored by Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, and Martin Scorsese. The movie stars Pierce Brosnan, and the script won the Edgar Allen Poe award from the Mystery Writers of America in the Best Television Miniseries or Movie category.

Johansen has also collaborated with comic book legend Stan Lee in creating The Accuser superhero character and has written screenplays for Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Disney, and MGM. His novels include The Answer Man, Beyond Belief, and Deadly Visions in addition to nine works co-authored with Iris Johansen.


Iris Johansen is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of more than 50 consecutive bestsellers.  Her series featuring forensic sculptor Eve Duncan has sold over 20 million copies and counting and was the subject of the celebrated Lifetime movie The Killing Game. Johansen lives in Georgia and Florida.
 
Roy Johansen is an Edgar Award-winning author and the son of Iris Johansen. His acclaimed mysteries include Killer View, Deadly Visions, Beyond Belief, and The Answer Man.  He has written screenplays for Warner Bros., Universal Pictures, Disney, and MGM.
 
Iris and Roy have written more than ten novels together, including the New York Times bestselling Kendra Michaels series.
 

Elisabeth Rodgers is an actress and AudioFile Earphones Award–winning narrator. After graduating from Princeton University, she completed a two-year program at William Esper Studio, where she studied with Maggie Flanigan. Her audiobook narration training came from Robin Miles, who has also directed her in several productions. She has recorded dozens of books for a multitude of publishers.

Editorial Reviews

11/11/2019

In bestseller Johansen and son’s riveting seventh Kendra Michaels novel (after 2018’s Double Blind), FBI consultant Kendra, who has honed a keen sense of observation from years of blindness she experienced as a child, works on a double murder case at a school she once attended, Woodward Academy for the Physically Disabled, in Oceanside, Calif. Kendra, who knew the victims, groundskeeper Ronald Kim and survival skills teacher Elaine Wessler, can’t understand who would want to kill them or why. The clues she uncovers with the aid of the FBI lead her to Elaine’s ex-husband’s apartment building, where she finds the ex-husband on the roof with his throat slit—and eludes the man’s possible killers with the help of a friend who arrives at the building in the nick of time. The danger rises as Adam Lynch, a black ops specialist, joins Kendra in her quest for Elaine and Ronald’s killers. The authors pepper the twisty plot with plenty of red herrings. Suspense fans are in for a treat. Agent: Andrea Cirillo, Jane Rotrosen Agency (Jan.)

Publishers Weekly

2019-10-14
Sparks fly as a woman with extraordinary abilities fights her attraction to a dangerous freelance consultant.

Dr. Kendra Michaels has worked with former FBI Agent Adam Lynch before (Double Blind, 2018), but she's furious with him for getting her tossed out of Afghanistan after she sustained a minor wound while trying to root out corruption. Kendra, who was blind until an experimental operation restored her sight at 20, has highly developed senses of smell, hearing, and spatial awareness that she's used to help the FBI and CIA in many difficult cases. Now, as she returns to the U.S., they have another one she can't resist investigating. Elaine Wessler and Ronald Kim, both staff members at her old school, the Woodward Academy for the Physically Disabled in Oceanside, California, have been found murdered for no apparent reason, and FBI Special Agent Michael Griffin is anxious to use her skills and inside knowledge. Elaine had been fostering an unusual guide dog, Harley, who's had problems adjusting since the child he was working with was killed in a gas-main explosion. Now that Elaine is gone, his unearthly howls are upsetting the students. Kendra talks her best friend, Olivia, who's blind, into sharing custody of Harley until they can find him the right home. Meanwhile, she turns up clues the FBI team missed and is rewarded for her efforts with a bomb planted in her car. It turns out to be fake, but it's still a potent warning to walk away. Returning from Afghanistan to help Kendra, Lynch finds her still angry with him and intent on resisting his charms. Her friend Jessie Mercado, a private eye, turns up to help extricate her from a dangerous situation and sticks around to join the hunt for the killers. It will take all of them, including Harley, to solve the violent, complex case and get the school Kendra loves back on track.

Mystery, danger, and sexual tension abound in an action-packed thriller that breaks plenty of heads but no new ground.

Kirkus Reviews

"Magnetic characters and atwisty, suspenseful plot ensure that readers will eagerly anticipate the next installment."—Publishers Weekly on Double Blind

"5 Stars! Kendra Michaels is an exceptionally compelling protagonist...Get the snacks ready and keep the lights on, for this book will keep you hanging on until the last word!"—RTBookReviews.com on Double Blind

"A long list of well-developed suspects makes this one of the more complex and satisfying entries in this bestselling series."—Publishers Weekly on Look Behind You

"A nail-biting adventure" that "offers thrill after thrill."—FreshFiction.com on Look Behind You

"The mother-and-son Johansen team delivers another high-stakes, high-powered thriller in the popular Kendra Michaels series."—Booklist on Night Watch

"The plot builds to a stunning conclusion."—Publishers Weekly on Night Watch

"This read goes from good to great to spectacular as the hunt between predator and prey never stops. As always behind the name 'Johansen' in reviews, this is a definite 5-Star."—Suspense Magazine on The Naked Eye

"The Johansens power-up the emotional stakes in this page-turning thriller that cements Michaels' reputation as a force to be reckoned with."—Booklist on The Naked Eye

From the Publisher

Elisabeth Rodgers returns to narrate the seventh book in the Kendra Michaels series. Rodgers, with her clear differentiation of characters, both male and female, and her ability to convey strong emotions, creates an engaging fast-paced listening experience. Michaels is an investigator whose senses of observation were sharply honed from her experience of being blind during the first 20 years of her life. She is drawn into an investigation of murders taking place at the school where she spent her formative years. Romance fans will find the scenes between Kendra and her sometimes partner, Adam Lynch, scintillating, while suspense fans may roll their eyes. The twists and turns and the introduction of a dog named Harley will keep listeners hanging on to the end. E.Q. © AudioFile 2020, Portland, Maine

JANUARY 2020 - AudioFile