I normally like Iris Johansen, but this novel left something to be desired in my eyes. The book starts out with our heroin being so very meek and, while not ugly, very "plain" and somewhat plump. This irritated me, as it's assuming, as so many other books do, that the plump women in the books are always plain or ugly, OR that if the woman in the book is plain, she's always heavier than the described "beauty," which, of course, is always thin and in perfect shape. Get real people. Just once I'd like to read a book where our heroin is just a plain, average-looking, average-sized woman of today, if not heavy. So anyway, of course, after the attack, Nell receives plastic surgery, including more than is really necessary, which turns her into a "Helen of Troy" outrageously beautiful woman. Unfortunately, it doesn't do anything for giving Nell more brains. So many times throughout the book she's ready to go off half-cocked to run down her daughter's killer and her attacker...forgetting that the attacker is a professional hit man and she doesn't even know how to use a gun or find the hit man!! Again, no brains. Her savior and our hero, Nick, is the typical good-looking, studly man who's going to train her and, eventually, plots with her to take down, not only the hit man, but the man who hired him. Blah, blah, blah. You've read it, heard it, a dozen times before, and, I'm sure, written so much better, too. While I'd love to get this book off my bookshelf, I can't give it a review it doesn't deserve. Iris Johansen, sorry girl, you wrote a flop this time.
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