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Alison Reynolds is at a crossroads in her life where she does not know what the future is about to bring. In the space of one day she has lost everything of who she thought she was and what she thought mattered. She was fired from her job as news anchorwoman and reporter at a Los Angeles television station in what appears to be a clear case of age discrimination. Shortly thereafter she has learned that her husband has been cheating on her for quite some time, and that a close friend of hers from Arizona has gone missing. Alison decides to move to Arizona to reconnect with her family and make a fresh start for herself. She is also hoping that she might be able to help in the search for her lost friend who has recently been diagnosed with a terminal illness. Alison's life is destined for a turnaround and things are going to get serious as her friend becomes the victim of foul play. Alison will need to get to the bottom of things if she wants to move forward. She has wasted a lot of time in her life and now it is time for her to create something for her life. This might be the only opportunity she gets. JA Jance is the author of two best-selling series. She is also the creator of several standalone novels out of which this book is probably the weakest link. EDGE OF EVIL is mostly a character study rather than a novel. There is not much in the sense of a story, but rather interconnected vignettes of Alison's life. The story that brings her to Arizona is more of a tertiary plot. One of the novel's gimmicks is that the main character starts an online journal (blog) to tell her side of the story. In it she gets a lot of sympathetic responses from former television viewers as well as people who can relate to what she is going through. What makes this a little bit hard to swallow is that most of their postings (both positive and negative) are all written with good grammar and correct spellings. Hav u red a BLOG latelee??? [sic] There wasn't even one emoticon! Alison's blog did not strike me as true, even though this is a work of fiction. It is an okay effort from an author trying to do something new, but it was done at the expense of the story she was trying to tell. Jance has written better novels. Try one of her other books either those featuring Seattle private investigator JP Beaumont or my favorite, those with Cochise County Sheriff Joanna Brady. Those are pure entertainment; EDGE OF EVIL is not.
Reviewed by Angel L. Soto, February 2006
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