"Joan Hall Hovey knows suspense. She keeps it simmering in every scene she writes and knows just the right moments to turn up the heat. She also knows character creating richly layered people to populate her stories, sometimes with no more than a single sentence stocked with perfectly chosen description words or phrases... terrific suspense" . James Hankins, author of Brothers and Bones... "Taut plotting, great characters, and chilling suspense. A book you can't put down, exhibits a master's touch. Alfred Hitchcock would be smiling". Book Pleasures Review, Steve Moore