Type of bind: Paperback
EAN num: 9780340822517
ISBN number: 0340822511
Label: Hodder & Stoughton Canada
Manufacturer: Hodder & Stoughton Canada
Printing Date: 2003
Publishing house: Hodder & Stoughton Canada
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Mission Canyon is the second book in the Evan Delaney series,and the second Meg Gardiner book I have read. I am certainly not trying to disrespect Stephanie Plum(Evanovich books), I have read all but the last of the Evanovich novels and poor Stephanie does not seem to ever get a clue. While there are lots of laughs in those novels, the Evan Delaney books seem to be the subsequent step for me; Meg Gardiner pulls you into the story from the start and keeps the pace up the whole way through. I won't post a long winded synopsis of the story here, as I myself don't enjoy that type of review, but I will say this book is a wonderful read and I can't wait until the subsequent in the series is released here in the United States.
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"The people who are left only want to shut you up. Irrevocably," writes Meg Gardiner in her new suspense thriller, Mission Canyon. Evan Delaney finds herself in the middle of a wicked blackmail scheme after her fiancé, Jesse, is severely injured in a hit-and-run accident that leaves him partially paralyzed and his best friend Isaac dead. The suspect shows up in town three years after the crime and begins a dangerous series of events involving career criminals, assassins, cover-ups, money-laundering, and the FBI. The surviving witnesses to the crime begin turning up brutally murdered. Can Delaney solve the mystery before she, too, ends up dead?
Mission Canyon is one of those rare novels that captures your interest from page one. Gardiner brings you on a wild ride of dangerous characters, twisted and exciting plot lines, and colorful diction that will thrill you to the end. The main characters are well developed and interesting; the villains, terrifying and believable. I couldn't put it down and highly recommend it to anyone who enjoys a good read.
by Jennifer Melville
for Story Circle Book Reviews
reviewing books by, for, and about women
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After all the hype from Stephen King about this author, I really was looking forward to reading this book which I paid dearly for. I was disappointed. Although it did hold my interest, it didn't strike me as one of the best mysteries I've ever read. Plus, I'm getting a bit tired of the constant tug-a-war between the heroine, Evan, and her wheelchair bound lover. Get married or move on...
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I have read three of Meg Gardiner's books now in the past three weeks, man oh man are we all just lemmings or what? A celebrity tells us something is great and we all jump off the cliff. I bought them all without even reading a word, pathetic! For the genre, ala female hero, mystery woman, this is good. The plot is feasible, the characters build with each passing book and they are generally fast reads. The only thing I would wish for is a bit of tightening from an editor on these. There are moments of mind wander because of what I would deem as "filler". With a good 50+ page trim the suspense would be more dramatic. I won't go into explaining plot, because the previous reviewers have done so. If you like the Alphabet mysteries, the culinery mysteries then this should be your cup o tea. Speaking of tea, when will the Brits get a US publisher to push Ms. Gardiner onto this side of the pond, so she can climb a few of the bestseller lists due to distribution and readily available titles in our stores? Oprah? Stephen King? Imus? What will we all read subsequent or should I say, WHOM?
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I was also directed by Stephen King to the Evan Delaney thrillers, although I did not get the word until his column in "Entertainment Weekly" extolled the novels of Meg Gardiner. It has been years since I had read a very first rate thriller by Tom Clancy and the last time I took a recommendation from King, the Chief Mario Balzac crime novels of K.C. Constantine, that had worked out great so I decided to make the effort to track down Gardiner's novels. I knew that the books were not published in the United States, since that was a key part of King's encomium, and since it never dawned on me that there is another country in this hemisphere that publishers books in English, I did not stop, passed go, and went to Amazon on the Thames to get the very first three paperbacks. They did not come in that order, because that would have made sense, but I held out and waited until I had "China Lake" so that I could start at the very beginning. I forced myself to read a couple of other books before I allowed myself the pleasure of devouring Gardiner's second effort, "Mission Canyon." It has been a long time since I had to stay up hours past my bedtime to get to the last page of a novel, but that is what happened with this one.
The titles of Gardiner's books (so far at least) are the names of places, and "Mission Canyon" is the place in the foothills of Santa Barbara where a satin-gray BMW left Evan's fiance Jesse Blackburn paralyzed and broken. It also killed his friend his friend Isaac Sandoval. Now it is three years later and while Evan is trying to help Jesse serve papers to Cal Diamond of Diamond Mindworks, a software company, when Jesse Brand spots Franklin Brand, the hit-and-run driver who ran him down. What would make a multi-millionaire who fled the country to avoid manslaughter charges come back to Santa Barbara? Jesse does not care, because all he and Isaac's brother Adam want is to see Brand pay for what he has done. But Evan knows that figuring out why Brand is back will make it easier to track him down and bring him to the authorities. What she does not expect is that every thing she finds out about Brand, Jesse and Isaac would make her rethink what happened that fateful day in Mission Canyon. Even if they get out of this one alive, Evan and Jesse's relationship could be over.
I do think that you can enjoy "Mission Canyon" without having read "China Lake," although obviously the very first book is where Gardiner introduces her characters. There is really only one real reference to the previous novel and Gardiner does not provide any spoilers that would ruin the experience, but of course I would urge you to do the other one first. Either way I would be surprised at anybody who would not want to read another one of these, although I suppose such a thing is possible. There are two significant twists in this thriller, or rather I should say that there were two significant twists that I anticipated. This was not because Gardiner was telegraphing the twists, but instead that since this was my second Evan Delaney Thriller I had a good idea of how complicated she likes to make things and I kept taking each new disclosure with a grain of salt and challenge my basic assumptions. So actually the fact that I was not surprised was a good thing, because I was on the same wavelength as Gardiner, which would also be a good thing, especially when that covers before her caustic wit as well as her plot complexities. Now the only question is how long I can wait before I start doing her third novel, "Jericho Point." My best guess would be not long. After all, it promises: "Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll. And Murder."
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