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Fifteen key art historians and cultural critics redefine the scope and concerns of scholarship on visual culture--a history of representation seen as something different from a history of art. ... Read more

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INTRODUCTION
This is a collection of two complete and unabridged books by acclaimed author Jim Michael Hansen. All of Hansen’s books are standalone thrillers. They can be read in any order.

FATAL LAWS
When several women are found buried in shallow graves near one another, each murdered in a brutally different way, Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry finds himself pulled into the edgy world of Tianca Holland—a woman involved enough to be a prime suspect, vulnerable enough to be the next victim, and beautiful enough to be more than just a distraction.

BAD LAWS
In his most dangerous and personal case yet, Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry makes a promise to a mysterious Asian woman that he will not let her be murdered. What follows next is an edgy thriller of unimaginable scope.

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INTRODUCTION
This is a collection of two complete and unabridged books by acclaimed author Jim Michael Hansen. All of Hansen’s books are standalone thrillers. They can be read in any order.

SHADOW LAWS
Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry and beautiful young attorney Taylor Sutton are separately hunting a killer but for very different reasons. As the two dangerous chases inadvertently intersect, both of the hunters get pulled deeper and deeper into an edgy world of shifting truths where there is more at stake than either could have imagined, nothing is as it seems and time is running out.

WILD LAWS
In a frantic chase unsanctioned by both his chief and by Japanese authorities, Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry hunts the streets of Tokyo for a unstoppable killer whose wake of terror has cut across three continents and is now entering Japan. As Coventry desperately tries to stop the next kill before it happens, he and a young Tokyo woman find themselves pulled deeper and deeper into a deadly game.
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INTRODUCTION
This is a collection of two complete and unabridged books by acclaimed author Jim Michael Hansen. All of Hansen’s books are standalone thrillers. They can be read in any order.

DEADLY LAWS
Third-year law student Kayla Beck receives a chilling telephone call. A stranger has chosen her to be the rescuer of a woman he has abducted. Kayla can either attempt to rescue the victim and possibly save her life or she can ignore the call and never be bothered again. If she disregards the call, however, no one else will get a similar opportunity. The woman will die. What happens next catapults both Kayla and Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry into a deadly world where the FBI has been hunting unsuccessfully for years; a world of unknown boundaries and dangers; a world where, in the end, the only hope of getting out is to go all the way in.

BLOND RUN
San Francisco homicide detective Trane Ravenwood thought he knew how to catch killers. He discovers just how wrong he was in Jim Michael Hansen’s riveting new thriller, Blond Run. While frantically hunting for an elusive killer who is poised to take the next victim by the end of the week, Ravenwood witnesses an unrelated murder from a place he shouldn’t be. Almost immediately, he is pulled into the edgy world of Trance St. Croix, a beautiful attorney who is too mysterious to trust and too hypnotic to resist.
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INTRODUCTION
This is a collection of two complete and unabridged books by acclaimed author Jim Michael Hansen. All of Hansen’s books are standalone thrillers. They can be read in any order.

VOODOO LAWS
As Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry’s frantic search for a missing woman pulls him deeper and deeper into an edgy world of voodoo and death curses, beautiful young attorney Mackenzie Lee takes on a terrifying case—a case that propels both her and her client into the deadly throes of a force more sinister than either of them could have imagined.

SEXY LITTLE THING
San Francisco homicide detective Trane Ravenwood has always lived on the edge. He discovers just how easy it is to fall off that edge in Jim Michael Hansen's electrifying new thriller, Sexy Little Thing. While searching for a friend who has abruptly vanished in Bangkok, Ravenwood wanders into the city's seedy, lust-drunk Soi Cowboy district on a steamy neon night. What happens next sends him spiraling into a deadly thriller set in the underbelly of a twisting foreign world.
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INTRODUCTION
This is a collection of two complete and unabridged books by acclaimed author Jim Michael Hansen. All of Hansen’s books are standalone thrillers. They can be read in any order.

BANGKOK LAWS
As Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry finds himself entangled in the collateral damage of a killer who uses the entire world as his playground, newly-licensed attorney Paige Alexander lands her very first case—a case that could possibly destroy the most powerful law firm in the world; a case involving a deadly, high-stakes international conspiracy of terrible proportions; a case that started in Bangkok but will not end there.

SCROLL
As soon as the dame walked through the door, private investigator Ash knew that trouble was right behind. Men would crawl across a field of broken glass just to smell her neck, that’s the kind of woman she was—long strawberry hair, lips as hot as whiskey-soaked jazz, green eyes, a curvy squeeze-me body, a tight little waist cinched in a black belt, nylons that rustled like bedroom chimes, a scent like Paris, mid-twenties, expensive on every level.Wilde tried to appear unaffected as the woman took one last drag from a cigarette, mashed the butt in the ashtray, slipped into one of the worn leather chairs in front of his desk and crossed her legs. “You’re Ash Wilde,” she said. “If I talk to you about a matter, is it strictly confidential?”

It was a simple question, one he'd heard a hundred times. This time, however, was different. This time the question would sweep him into a deadly game that started many, many centuries ago but was not over yet.

Edgy, mysterious and irresistible, Scroll is a twisty thrill-ride into a pulp noir world of riveting proportions. Enter at your own risk. You've been warned.
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Weeds threaten the safe, efficient, and sustainable production of food, feed, fiber, and biofuel throughout the world. Featuring more than fifteen hundred full-color photographs, this handy guide provides essential information on four hundred of the most troublesome weedy and invasive plants found in the southern United States.

Drawing on the expertise of more than forty weed scientists and botanists, the guide identifies each plant at various stages of its life and offers useful details about its origin, habitat, morphology, biology, distribution, and toxic properties. The book also includes illustrations of the most common characteristics of plants and the terms used to describe them, a key to plant families, a glossary of frequently used terms, a bibliography, and indexes of scientific and common plant names.

Each species account includes

- Up to four full-color photographs showing seed, seedling, plant, flower, and other unique plant features

- Distribution map

- For grasses, a line drawing of the collar (where the leaf joins the stem), an important identifying characteristic

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Good Purchase
My co-workers and I deal with a varity of weeds in agronomic research in north Florida.Having just purchased this book, we are finding it useful and well worth the price.It is well organized, has a good key, and lots of photos. Although not a hardback, it has a sturdy paperback cover. Thanks to Univ of GA for publishing this -- from your friends at Univ of FL.

weed book for agricultural types
Weeds of the South appears to be written for people who are already familiar with agricultural botany. An entire page is dedicated to each type of weed, so there is some detail about the plant's characteristics.

The book is useful if you want to exterminate the weeds while they are just popping out of the ground, but not if you want to identify them at a distance when they're full-grown.Most of the photos are close-ups of the blooms, seeds, and seedling plants. The book describes the toxic properties of each type of weed, so if you raise grazing animals it will be helpful. The photos are exceptionally clear, but almost never show an entire plant. The last section covers weed grasses.

I was not able to figure out how the book was organized and had to flip through all the pages to locate pictures that matched the weeds I had in my yard. Several of my weeds (I live in Georgia) weren't in the book, but my county extension agent was able to identify them for me.

Poor Visual Identification but Beautiful Photos
I returned this book because it didn't have the strange weed that I was looking for. It did however, list watermelons and okra as weeds. It showed the seeds, the leaves of a sprouting new plant and the flowers of most but didn't show a mature plant with leaves which is what you would need for identification unless you happen to be around when it emerged, bloomed or went to seed. I was looking for a particular weed from a previously live sample (having tried all the medicinal herb and other herb books, the wild flower books, Plants of the Appalachians,etc.) which an old American Indian had called Moccasin Weed and given it to my father-in-law as a poison ivy cure which the family used for years but the weed is hard to find. In my research, I did discover Jewel Weed (not listed in this particular book) which is wild touch-me-not plant and is used for curing poison ivy and poison oak. I was trying to discover this plant's correct name since Moccasin Weed is not listed in any of the research books or web searches I tried.
This book has great photography but falls short in what it was published for which is identifying weeds and not for a coffee table decoration.Water Melon and Okra are not weeds by any stretch of the imagination. They are edible vegetable annuals and if gone wild are wild edible vegges.They may or may not reseed themselves (both originally came from a tropical African climate).

A travesty of misinformation
Despite the sponsorship of several major agricultural chemical companies, the editors did not take the time and effort to have this book adequately reviewed by knowledgeable parties. The result is a work riddled with mis-identified species, inaccurate maps, mis-used scientific terms, stylistic errors, and general mis-information.

Excellent!
This book has pictures of the plants at every stage of growth, from seed to maturity, and all parts of the plants are shown. The pictures are excellent quality. All of this also means that it is too cumbersome to use as a field guide, but there are enough field guides out there, and not enough complete guides like this. I wish that I could find edible plant, and wildflower guides that are compiled like this. all of my wildflower guides only show the flower and not the plant or the leaves. However, if you like wildflowers, you will love this book in spite of its title, because a lot of wildflowers are covered in here, including some not so aggressive types ;-).

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Back on the LAPD and hailed as a hero after taking down a deadly gang of rogue cops in The Viking Funeral, Shane Scully finds himself unwittingly involved in a criminal scheme to take over the movie business. Soon, he will have to go deep undercover to take down a Hollywood conspiracy. At a glamor-ous party with his new wife, Alexandra, Shane hears a world-famous producer make an ominous remark about the strange deaths of his ex-wives. This is more than police bus-iness, it's personal: Alexandra's closest friend is engaged to the producer. When he looks closer, Scully discovers that the man's mysterious past may hide deadly secrets. To uncover them,he must work alongside a former down-and-outer-turned-Holly-wood impresario to infiltrate the movie business' violent dark side, a world where deals are settled with handshakes but broken with the spilling of blood, and where the danger to Shane's loved ones is all too real. ... Read more

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Too much nonsense
I will not be reading the rest of this book. Has this guy ever even MET a real Policeman?

Worth a read
I like the setting and characters in this novel, but the story wasn't the greatest. Worth reading.

A Good Cop Novel
If you like a good cop fiction novel than this one will make a good read. I started the Shane Scully series with the tin collectors and have continued to read them. This novel is packed with suspense. The novel will start out with a simple case for Shane Scully to handle but it quickly turns into more for him. Action packed and a bit of suspense.

a dramatically interesting but a bita far-fetched novel
mr cannell indeed is full of lotsa cool ideas on how novels could be interesting and fun to read. the dialogues in his books are all sharp and streetwise, the police procedures also read pretty real. the plot sometimes stretched out too far and wide but never lost focus. there are two mistakes found in this 'hollywood tough':
mistake one on page 117:
if a chinese restaurant named as 'peking duck', it usually hints it's a chinese restaurant serving northern chinese cuisine instead of the south-easter cantonese stuff such as dim sum. peking duck is a specialty of the northern china, orginated in peking. also, dim sum usually never served after 3:00pm. we usually couldn't get it, and if we try to get dim sum from a restaurant named 'peking duck', we definitely are morons.
mistake two on page 221:
the dialogue between scully and valentine was totally mixed up, names were obviously misplaced.
i've read this novel in 2003 and 2006. problem is that when i read it the second time, it only looked familiar. maybe that's the problem of all the modern day bestsellers.

Tough to Read Hollywood Tough
Among my favorite books is King Con!I have bought many copies to give as gifts to friends.I buy Stephen Cannell always hoping to find another King Con.

The best character in this book is a marmalade cat named Franco.The plot goes off in many different directions! It never really hangs together.The shoot-out at the end is ridiculous.People who are supposed to be competent and intelligent make idiotic decisions.Scully's wife (groomed to be head of Dectives at LAPD) is so sweet and kind and thoughtful (and dumb)! Would LAPD groom such a woman to be head of detectives?Well, maybe in real life - but it just doesn't work in this story. Too many characters; too many subplots; racial stuff, gangs, Hollywood, the Mafia, family issues, movie making.I thought Cannell must have had a deadline for producing a book and looked through his file of old ideas and threw a bunch together and did his best to contrive a plot to connect disparate ideas.This book doesn't say anything, doesn't do anything.It's a dud.Don't bother. ... Read more

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Title: The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton's Rejection of God as King.(Book Review)
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Don't waste your money!
Two thirds of the content of this book is recycled from the error ridden Weeds of the South by the same authors.The numerous mis-identifications and many instances of mis-information are compounded by the fact that the authors chose to use a very technical style in their descriptions, thus requiring a glossary of over 400 technical terms, of which the authors demonstrate a repeated lack of understanding. The only valid purpose of this and the previous Weeds of the South publication, is as a tool to extract funds from the many chemical companies that funded the publications.

Great Book and Delivery Service
Ordered Free Shipping and the Book arrived the very next day! BRAND NEW AND NO PROBLEMS AT ALL! The four stars is given based upon the content and organization of the book. 'Weeds of the Northeast' is a much better in the field ID Guide. This book is better as a text. The help with ID'ing weeds is severely lacking.

How many times I've wished for a book like this
I agree everything said above plus it show pictures of the whole plant, close of leaves, flowers, seeds & sprouts. It shows in drawings the different structures & explains terms. If you have any interest in the plants of the area, either to ID as wildflowers, garden weeds or any other reason, then this book is a must have. ... Read more

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Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry tracks a killer to Paris, expecting a dangerous but straightforward hunt. What he doesn't forsee is that he and a strikingly beautiful French detective would be pulled into a deadly game--a game that would stretch from Paris to Cairo to the Valley of the Kings; a game rooted in ancient tombs, archeological murders and lost treasures; a game tha started thousands of years ago but is not over yet. ... Read more

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The latest Laws police procedural is an extremely complex tale with multiple story lines that cleverly interact and twist
In Denver almost one year has passed since twenty-two years old waitress Amanda Peterson was murdered.The killer ripped out the victim's eyes and put them backwards into the sockets.The case has gone cold in Colorado but now a second dead female with the same gruesome ritual has surfaced in Paris.Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry flies to Paris to share what he knows with local authorities in an attempt to prevent further killings.

In Paris, Bryson meets his contact Detective Fallon La Rue and feels he is in love at first sight.However, seeing the corpse of the second person stuns him when Margaux Simon turns out to be Tracy White; she saw the killer in Denver and when Bryson mistakenly gave her name to the killer after being tricked, vanished.He further explains to Fallon that he took a bullet in the stomach trying to keep Tracy safe, but obviously failed. They work together employing his ruse of using a doctored version of the drawing of the killer as provided by Tracy last year, but this time Fallon is the bait.However, neither cross oceanic cop is prepared to the twists they face to solve this case.

The latest Laws police procedural is an extremely complex tale with multiple story lines that cleverly interact and twist.Fallon brings a special freshness that will have fans saying oui oui for more appearances by her and Bryson is his usual terrific self. However, it is the complicated whodunit that grips readers throughout as nothing is quite like it seems.

Harriet Klausner

Ancient Laws - the 8th Bryson Coventry thriller
Ancient Laws is the 8th "Laws" thriller featuring Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry. Each of the LAWS books is independent of the others. They can be read in any other. Other books in the series include Night Laws, Shadow Laws, Fatal Laws, Deadly Laws, Bangkok Laws, Immortal Laws, Voodoo Laws and Hong Kong Laws. The books are available both as trade paperback originals and as Kindle books.

Ancient Laws is a true Thriller
Hansen is definitely honing his craft. This story that takes Bryson Coventry to France and Egypt is fast paced and full of international intrigue. It's similar to stories told by Dan Brown and Katherine Neville, but with the down to earth and dirty slant Hansen gives to his characters.
I had a hard time putting the book down and read it in a few days.
Coventry's love interest detective Fallon La Rue is a very interesting character with a few skeleton's in her closet. I hope Hansen develops Fallon and maybe even feature's her in future books.
The Laws series are stand alones, but sometimes I wish Coventry would age and the stories would be in series. Maybe if Fallon La Rue is featured in future books they can be serial.
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Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry is thrust into his most bizarre and twisted case yet as he hunts the killer of a woman who was murdered with a wooden stake through her heart as if she was a vampire. Meanwhile, beautiful young blues singer Heather Vaughn learns that she has been targeted for a similar death. She frantically searches for answers, not ony to save her life but also to find out whether dark genes from an ancient past are buried inside her. As time runs out, both she and Coventry find themselves swept deeper and deeper into the throes of a modern-day thriller born of ancient and deadly obsessions. ... Read more

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Sorry - but this was a very weak book.
Let us be honest.When an author describes, on more than one occasion, one of his main characters reading a book - and he gives the title - and it just happens to be another one of the authors book - it is not even close to clever.That pretty much sums up most of the book.Relentless attempts - but little success.

Immortal Laws

Do you believe in vampires and other dark-side beings? Talented author Jim Michael Hansen will keep you reading as you join homicide detective Bryson Coventry in a case guaranteed to have you sleeping with a light on. Vampires seem to have invaded his world.

A young singer is told by a woman from Jamaica that she is descended from vampires and because of this, she is in danger from a group called the Slayers.It calls for courage to stay and face the killers.Will she be able to do it or will she become a victim or will she run?

Bryson Coventry must deal with a new type of killer when a victim is found with a stake through her heart.Was she a vampire or was her killer just adding his own twist to murder?

Coventry's investigation bring him into contact with the Jamaican woman and he feels drawn to her. Can he separate his emotion from his hunt for the murderer as she plays more than one role in this well told tale?

Talented author Jim Michael Hansen will have you wanting to tell people not do go down that dark street, to avoid going out at night. And you will willingly follow them into those dark streets just to see what happens. Just be careful and consider wearing a garlic necklace to keep vampires away.

This is a tale that will have you rechecking your windows at night and looking over your shoulder for those mysterious fliers with fangs.Guaranteed to keep you reading, this is one of the best thrillers I've read yet.A different type of thriller deftly laced with horror that will have you looking for Mr. Hansen's other books.

Enjoy.I certainly did.

Immortal Laws - A Bryson Coventry Thriller
Immortal Laws is the 6th "Laws" thriller featuring Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry. Each of the LAWS books is independent of the others. They can be read in any other. Other books in the series include Night Laws, Shadow Laws, Fatal Laws, Deadly Laws, Bangkok Laws, Voodoo Laws, Ancient Laws and Hong Kong Laws.

Very Surprised, Excellent Tale
I won a signed copy of this book when I entered Jim Hansen's contest this summer.
I'm a recent transplant to the Denver area and had searched for detective stories that take place in Denver. I found Hansen doing a search on my Kindle.I immediately liked Bryson Coventry. He's a fantastic character. However when I read that the premise in Immortal Laws included vampires, I just thought that sounded pretty cheesy, and I shelved the book until later.
On a recent cross-country flight I started reading it.He makes the vampires real people.I wasn't turned off to the subject matter at all. In fact I had a hard time putting the book down. The story involving his missing friend and the murder of an apparent vampire enthusiast is really 2 stories intertwined. This book is more complex and interesting than a few of his other books. They started to read as if they were cut from the same formula after a while. The twist at the end I didn't see coming. If you liked Jim Hansen's previous Bryson Coventry novels you'll love this one. I highly recommend it.
I want to thank Jim for creating a wonderful character in Bryson Coventry.
I plan to go to my kindle and order his next novel Voodoo Laws right now!!

Bryson Does It Again!
Dark nights and fierce thunderstorms. Old legends of creatures that feed on the blood of the living. Yes, I am talking about vampires, those immortal beings that only come out at night. The only way to kill them is by driving a wooden stake through their hearts. Such are the tales saved for books and old movies.

That is until Denver Detective Bryson Coventry is faced with a murder whose victim has a wooden stake driven through their heart. The Detective has no leads until he finds out that the exact same type of murder took place in Paris not too long before his victim was found in Denver. Now Coventry feels like he is getting somewhere. Then one of his old high school friends - who is a t.v. journalist - is kidnapped. And he is the prime suspect in her disappearance.

Then there is Heather Vaughn. Vampires have stepped out of legend and into her life. One stormy night, an intoxicatingly beautiful woman named London tells Heather that she is part of a vampire blood-line, and that vampire "slayers" are after her. Heather really isn't sure she believes this, until not long after meeting London, she is attacked in her own home and forced to kill one of the slayers. Now Heather realizes she has a target on her back, and she must immerse herself into the world of vampires to save her life.

This is the first time that Jim Michael Hanson has written one of his "Laws" books where one of the main characters was not a lawyer. I think Mr. Hanson did a great job on his sixth novel. (Even making an Alfred Hitchcock-like cameo within its pages.) This story was captivating, erotic and humorous at times. I find a great adventure each time I delve into the world of Detective Bryson Coventry.
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Third-year law student Kayla Beck receives a chilling telephone call. A stranger has chosen her to be the rescuer of a woman he has abducted. Kayla can either attempt to rescue the woman and possibly save her life or she can ignore the call and never be bothered again. If she disregards the call, however, no one else will get a similar opportunity. The woman will die. What happens next catapults both Kayla and Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry into a deadly world where the FBI has been hunting unsuccessfully for years; a world of unknown boundaries and dangers; a world where, in the end, the only hope of getting out is to go all the way in. ... Read more

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Deadly Laws: excellent!
Deadly Laws is not as good as the excellent Jim Michael Hansen novel Shadow Laws: it is better.

Wow.

In my review of Shadow Laws I wrote about how much I enjoyed the great characters, the suspense, and the roller coaster plot of that great novel.What makes Deadly Laws superior is that all of the great elements found in Shadow Laws are to be found in Deadly Laws--but bigger and better.

Talk about a bad guy: Vance Lundeen of Deadly Laws would kick the butt of Shadow Laws Nathan Wickersham . . . and then go have sex.

It's apparent that sex is and will continue to be a major mover in the Law novels.Cool.I don't turn my head during sex scenes in movies--have you seen a James Bond movie?--and I'm not going to blush at these.Sex and money--getting it-- are two major motivators in real life.They should be in fiction too.The characters in the Law series are alpha, A-type personalities.Check with Bill Clinton.

Sex makes these characters human, or inhuman, depending on the character.You love Bryson Coventry and despise Vance Lundeen all the more for the way they approach sex.Sex can show vulnerability and coarseness.Sex can make people (and characters in a novel) do things they might not have otherwise thought themselves capable of, whether it is an act of bravery or an act of inhumanity.

Anyway, my copy of Bangkok Laws just came in the mail.Please pardon me while I go and read it.I'm probably going to be up all night.

What a terrible book
I'm truly not sure what any reviewers see in this book. The characters are shallow and poorly developed, the plot is similar to "Kiss the Girls" but minor league - maybe pee wee league - in comparison and there are very few redeeming characteristics in any of the book's characters. Talk about unrealistic; a woman who is raped, who kills the rapist immediately makes a date and almost as quickly starts having sex in the back seat of the investigating detective's car? Not even the original James Bond moved that quickly (or with less conscience). By page 40, about the only remaining suspenseful(?) question is whether all of the book's characters will have sex. Ycch.

Great Thriller!
This one is guarenteed to impress just as much as the others in the "Laws" series.Hansen has done it again.I highly recommend this thriller!

You won't be able to put this down!
Kayla Beck is a law student.Life is going along well until she receives a strange phone call where the voice is distorted.The caller tells her there's a woman being held in a box car, and she's the only one who can save her and only if she acts quickly and follows the directions exactly.Kayla does so and is able to save Aspen White, but not before Aspen kills a man.They become friends and pair up to try to find the serial killer who called Kayla.

Denver Homicide Detective Bryson Coventry is called to the murder of a man in a box car.Then later a law student is found dead by the tracks.Bryson feels in his gut these cases are related, but he can't find what ties them together.

Tracking down a car seen at the first crime scene, Bryson arrives at Kayla's apartment only to find Aspen White.He is drawn to her because she is so beautiful, and they become involved.

When more young women go missing and end up dead, Bryson realizes he is on the trail of a serial killer.An FBI profiler, who is also Bryson's friend, comes to help with the case.She's been tracking this guy for years.What neither of them knows is that Kayla and Aspen are also looking for the same guy.Can they find him before he kills again and without putting themselves in danger?

I have to say this is one book you will have trouble putting down from page one.The author has done a fabulous job of pulling the reader in and keeping them there.He has a great knack at switching from one part of the story to another at just the right time.He will keep you wondering what is going on until the last page.There are lots of twists and turns and suspense.

This is the first book I've read by this author.I really enjoyed it and look forward to reading more.I highly recommend this book!Just remember, start it when you have lots of time to read.You won't be able to put it down!

The Luscious Suspense Continues
Kayla Beck loves her life as a law student; excited as to what the future holds for her.Then the deep, scrambled voice coming through her cell phone threatened all of that.Next thing she knew, she was caught up in another woman's obsessive journey into revenge.

Denver Detective Bryson Coventry is the best homicide cop around.It seemed that all the best - and most complicated murders - come his way.True to form, he has stumbled into another one.First it is just a murdered drifter.Then a young law student shows up dead.The two deaths seem unrelated at first, but Bryson's gut tells him differently.Digging deeper, he finds himself in a race to catch a serial killer.

This is the fourth book in the author's series of "Law" books.Having read the other three, I have to say when I heard there was a fourth I was a bit skeptical that Mr. Hansen could keep up the same pace and mystery that the previous books had.

"O ye of little faith," keeps running through my head.How could I have ever doubted that the author was up to the task?Not only did I learn a few new things about him, I got to fall in lust again with the same sexy and intriguing Bryson I had met before. One thing that still amazed me is the way this Detective attracts women.He is never content with just working through the mysteries of his cases, but continually wanders through the ever-changing mystery of women.(And they always seem to be beautiful women.)

Just as with the previous three books, this one grabbed me from the first page.My habit is to go through a book a few chapters at a time.With this one, I sat down just after dinner, and other than a couple of breaks, I finished it the same night (actually it was the next morning).The story does not get boring or bogged down in details.This author has a great knack for going just deep enough into one area and then shifting to another just at the right time.This technique also helps to build the tension.And believe me - there is tension.

Should you read this book?Yes, definitely.I have said this before about this author's other works and it still applies now; turn off your crime thrillers on television and tune-in to this book.

K. Martin
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In a frantic chase unsanctioned by both his chief and by Japanese authorities, Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry hunts the streets of Tokyo for a unstoppable killer whose wake of terror has cut across three continents and is now entering Japan. As Coventry desperately tries to stop the next kill before it happens, he and a young Tokyo woman find themselves pulled deeper and deeper into a deadly world. ... Read more

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Another Outstanding Thriller
Another outstanding thriller with great action that moved through each chapter, and showed high intense detective work.
Coventry, taking on a new wave of terror, not showing fear, yet showed the reader that he was willing to lay down his life, if need be, to save, or try to save another victim.
After putting his job on the line, Coventry, upon reaching his destination, went in search of yet another killer that was roaming the Tokyo streets finding and murdering pretty young girls. Trying to stay one jump ahead of the killer was a task that Coventry knew he had to make in order to try to keep another murder from happening. Will Coventry save the day, or will he go down in a blaze of glory?
This fast-paced page turner will keep the reader in deep suspense right up until the very end.

terrific entry
Thirty-four year old Bryson Coventry, Chief of Denver Police Department Homicide Unit, has a photo of schoolteacher Paige Lake who brutally died two years ago.Last year he received an email that stated Johannesburg was next; he called South African police, but Jewel Brand was murdered.Apparently before Denver there was Paris and now next week Tokyo.

Unable to stay out of it, Bryson replies to the email that states Tokyo next by offering himself as the victim.He flies to Japan though his DPD boss Tanner fires him.In Tokyo local authorities warn him to stay out of it, but he refuses to do so.As the former cop tries to prevent the next murder, he and Sin whom he met on the flight over, are caught in a deadly convoluted ploy that is not just on four continents, but dates back to a previous century.

The Wild Bryson saga has been one of the best police procedural series for several years, but this is the best to date as the complexity is incredible with multiple subplots that tie together in ways the reader will be stunned.After overseas in Hong Kong Laws, Paris in Ancient Laws, and Bangkok Laws; readers will wonder about cases in Denver, but Jim Hanson easily sends his hero overseas again with a great thriller as Bryson quits the force, offers himself up as the victim and his only respite is Sinning. Filled with twists including a late spin that Bryson failed to see coming, fans will relish this terrific entry with a strong cast as WHERE is Tokyo and WHEN is next week; meaning the clock is ticking on Coventry.

Harriet Klausner

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