And Then You Die
by Iris Johansen
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Author: Iris JohansenEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1998-09-01
ISBN: 0553579983
Number of pages: 352
Publisher: Bantam
Book Reviews of And Then You Die
Book Review: Strange Name, Great Book!
Summary: 5 Stars
AND THEN YOU DIE was the first Iris Johansen mystery/suspense book that I read and to say that I enjoyed it would be an understatement. This is definitely a "stop light book" (for my definition of a "stop light book" please see my review on THE UGLY DUCKLING by Iris Johansen). I couldn't put this book down. As a side note, I have to tell you that the reason for this title will become clear about half way through the book and then you'll stop thinking of it as a strange name!
AND THEN YOU DIE is about group of people threatening to destroy the world with chemical warfare and photojournalist Bess Grady stumbles into the testing grounds with her sister. Grady is a photojournalist and is assigned to photograph a small village in Mexico. When they arrive at the village, they find that all of the people are dead, except for a baby. Bess leaves her sister as she goes for help and is knocked unconscious by soldiers arriving in decontamination suits. She awakens to find herself in a hospital bed and her sister has disappeared. Now she must trust someone whom she believes is one of the murderers in order to save her life and that of the baby she has rescued.
Sounds like a typical synopsis from most suspense books, right? With Iris Johansen writing it, you can bet on anything but typical. I enjoy mysteries of all kinds and being the avid bibliophile that I am, I can usually figure out the bad guy in an excellent mystery around the middle point in the book. I may be able to figure out the villain in Johansen's books, but I can't grasp the entire scheme of things. Another thing that I enjoy about her books is that there are no clear cut bad guys/good guys, after all aren't we all a mixture? If I had to use one word to describe both her characters and her books it would be "complex".
This is another author who has crossed genres from romance to mystery/suspense and has done so with a flare that few can match. Describing her work as excellent is not an embellishment and doesn't do this book justice. I've given my copy of this book to a few friends who have become avid Johansen fans after reading it. They did lose sleep in order to finish the story, but didn't seem to hold it against me for suggesting the book in the first place (and then they asked if I had any other books by her!).
Summary of And Then You Die
She expected sunshine and balmy breezes. What she saw was everyone's worst nightmare.Bess Grady has heard the unmistakable sound before. She knows what it means. But not even the eerie lament of the howling dogs can prepare her for what has taken place in the small village. The seasoned photojournalist had been sent there on an easy assignment, and now she has stumbled upon something she was never meant to see. Amid chaos and fear, she joins forces with an intimidating stranger, a man whose alliances are unclear but whose methods have a way of leaving bodies in his wake. For what she has witnessed is only the first stage in a plan of terror that may kill us all. And she has no choice but to stop it?or die trying....
As a photojournalist, Bess Grady is far more comfortable viewing life through her camera lens than firsthand; the extra distance makes it easier to accept life's atrocities. Still recovering from an assignment on which she witnessed the massacre of an entire Croatian orphanage, Bess accepts an easy assignment from a travel magazine to photograph a small village in Mexico and brings her sister along for fun. What awaits her is worse than she ever could have imagined: everyone in the village has been killed by a deadly poison. After rescuing the only survivor, Bess and her sister split up. Bess finds herself captured by the villain who seems to have plotted the horrible destruction. Her sister has disappeared, and the only hope Bess has to save her is to trust a man she believes to be a murderer.
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