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Allison Brennan

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Allison Brennan was born in 1969 in California. She is an American bestselling writer of romantic thriller novels. Her writing includes the Lucy Kincaid series, the F. B. I. Trilogy and the Predator Series. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, Mystery Writers of America, and International visa mer Thiller Writers. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Allison Brennan

Speak No Evil (2007) 530 exemplar
The Prey (2005) 510 exemplar
Fear No Evil (2007) 424 exemplar
Killing Fear (2008) 419 exemplar
See No Evil (2007) 408 exemplar
The Kill (2006) 389 exemplar
The Hunt (2006) 385 exemplar
Sudden Death (2009) 366 exemplar
Playing Dead (2008) 349 exemplar
Tempting Evil (2008) 338 exemplar
Notorious (2014) 312 exemplar
Original Sin (2010) 311 exemplar
Kiss Me, Kill Me (2011) 291 exemplar
Fatal Secrets (2009) 284 exemplar
Silenced (2012) 258 exemplar
Cutting Edge (2009) 245 exemplar
Stalked (2012) 229 exemplar
The Sorority Murder (2021) 198 exemplar
The Third to Die (2020) 196 exemplar
Cold Snap (Lucy Kincaid Novels) (2013) 181 exemplar
Carnal Sin (2010) 178 exemplar
Compulsion (2015) 170 exemplar
Stolen (2013) 168 exemplar
Dead Heat (2014) 136 exemplar
Shattered (2017) 127 exemplar
No Good Deed (2015) 127 exemplar
Abandoned (2018) 124 exemplar
If I Should Die (Lucy Kincaid) (2011) 123 exemplar
Best Laid Plans (2015) 123 exemplar
Reckless (novella) (2013) 110 exemplar
Poisonous (2016) 108 exemplar
What You Can't See (3-in-1 Anthology) (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 107 exemplar
The Lost Girls (2016) 105 exemplar
Don't Open the Door (2023) 101 exemplar
North of Nowhere (2023) 86 exemplar
Make Them Pay (2017) 85 exemplar
Too Far Gone (2018) 74 exemplar
Breaking Point (2018) 73 exemplar
Nothing to Hide (2019) 71 exemplar
Crash and Burn (2013) 56 exemplar
Maximum Exposure (2014) 51 exemplar
The Missing Witness (2024) 32 exemplar
Hit and Run (2014) 24 exemplar
Sweet Dreams Boxed Set (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 23 exemplar
Missing: A 3-In-1 Collection (2022) 17 exemplar
Killing Justice (3-in-1) (2012) — Författare — 15 exemplar
36 Hours (2013) 15 exemplar
Frosted [novella] (2015) 14 exemplar
Lost and Found (2016) 14 exemplar
Mortal Sin (2014) 13 exemplar
Storm Warning (novella) (2019) 13 exemplar
No Way Out (novella) (2020) 12 exemplar
Ghostly Justice (novella) (2011) 11 exemplar
Deliver Us From Evil (novella) (2017) 10 exemplar
Mirror Mirror (2021) 2 exemplar

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Blood Lite II: Overbite (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 213 exemplar
Love Is Murder (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 179 exemplar
Killer Year: A Criminal Anthology (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 171 exemplar
Two of the Deadliest (2009) — Bidragsgivare — 156 exemplar
Entangled (Anthology 10-in-1) (2011) — Bidragsgivare — 69 exemplar
Odd Partners: An Anthology (2019) — Bidragsgivare — 52 exemplar
Premiere: A Romance Writers of America® Collection (2015) — Bidragsgivare — 50 exemplar
Guns and Roses (10-in-1 Anthology) (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 42 exemplar
Sleuthing Women II: 10 Mystery Novellas (2017) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar

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Födelsedag
1969-09-29
Kön
female
Nationalitet
USA
Födelseort
Elk Grove, California, USA
Bostadsorter
San Carlos, California, USA
Chatsworth, California, USA
Sacramento, California, USA
Elk Grove, California, USA
Utbildning
University of Santa Cruz
Yrken
political campaigns
bartender
country club hostess
administrative assistant
legislative consultant
mother (visa alla 8)
writer
public policy career with California State Legislature
Organisationer
Romance Writers of America
International Thriller Writers
Mystery Writers of America
Novelists, Inc.
Horror Writers Association
Agent
Kimberly Whalen (Trident Media Group)
Dan Conaway (Writer's House)
Kort biografi
Allison Brennan (born September 29, 1969) is an American best-selling writer of romantic thriller novels. Her first book was published in 2005.

Brennan was born in San Carlos, California. In 1987, she graduated from Menlo School in Atherton, California, and attended college at UC Santa Cruz from 1987 to 1989, working as a legislative consultant in the California State Legislature from 1992 to 2005. In 1993, she married Dan Brennan, and they had five children. She currently resides in Elk Grove, California.

As of 2012, Brennan has published numerous novels, five of which are found in over 1000 libraries and have been translated into Japanese, Norwegian, German, Spanish, French and Italian. Most of her books have been New York Times best-sellers.

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I have always wanted to read one of Allison Brennan's novels so I jumped into the fifth book in her Quinn & Costa series, The Missing Witness. While it can be difficult to join an established series without having read the previous books, I was able to catch up, though it did take awhile to place all the characters relationships.

The book begins with LAPD Detective Kara Quinn returning to Los Angeles to testify against a dangerous human trafficker she went undercover to catch. Kara Quinn has been on loan to the FBI in Washington DC where she works closely with Agent Matt Costa, and with whom she has a more than collegial relationship.

Kara is eager to testify, and threats against her life by the trafficker's people have given her LAPD and FBI colleagues concerns about her safety. When the trafficker is shot and killed on his way into the courthouse, there is one witness to the killing- Amy, a civilian IT consultant who has been working undercover to get information on white collar financial crimes that may implicate people high up in the city government as well as the trafficker.

Amy disappears following the killing, and there are questions as to whether she is a witness or the killer. Quinn and Costa and Quinn's former unit in the LAPD have to work together to find Amy and unravel the white crime syndicate that has now turned to murder to protect their secrets.

Brennan does a good job explaining the complicated scheme that involves nonprofit organizations that have contracts with the city to build housing for unhoused people, and the web of deceit that has created millionaires out of people high up in the government and their family members.

There are some truly tense scenes in this fast-paced novel, including a few shoot-outs, a rooftop chase, and Kara racing away on a motorcycle from killers on her trail. I was biting my nails on these scenes.

I found it interesting how Brennan built her story around a real world problem, the homeless issue, and dealt with it from the perspective of people living in the middle of it. She clearly did her research on it. (Here is a link to an essay Allison Brennan wrote about this.)

For people who have read the previous Quinn & Costa novels, they will no doubt enjoy seeing what their favorite characters have been up to in the interim, and there are a few surprises for them. After reading The Missing Witness, I will be looking the first four books in the series- Kara Quinn is a badass.
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83
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Medlemmar
10,351
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#2,295
Betyg
3.8
Recensioner
422
ISBN
448
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