Evan Delaney Series - Meg Gardiner

Written by Meg Gardiner
Read by Tanya Eby Sirois
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China Lake
Series: Evan Delaney, Book 1
Length: 11 hrs and 33 mins
Brilliance Audio: 2008/2014 for all books

Evan Delaney is shocked to learn that her ex-sister-in-law, Tabitha, has joined the Remnant, a religion with a dangerous and fanatical following. What is more alarming is that the unstable young mother plans to regain custody of her son and disappear with him into the fold of the church. She has the Remnant on her side, and they’ll do anything it takes. Including murder?

Evan is a lawyer and a Sci-Fi author. She really underestimated them. Peter Wyoming and his cult are “Enders” and they plan to speed up the Apocalypse on or near HELL-O-WEEN. They’ll stop at nothing to get what they want including framing her Naval Fighter Pilot brother for Murder! Even Evan’s disabled lawyer boyfriend is in their cross hairs.

A reviews view - The plot is fast moving and Gardiner’s prose is easy to read. Pages will fly as you read. Would I recommend this novel? A resounding YES!

Mission Canyon
Series: Evan Delaney, Book 2
Length: 9 hrs and 39 mins
Release date: 07-01-08

Evan Delaney has come to terms with the hit-and-run crash that left her boyfriend, Jesse Blackburn, in a wheelchair and killed his best friend. But when she hears that the driver, Franklin Brand, is back in Santa Barbara, she is determined to help Jesse bring him to book for his crime.

Brand was a golden boy at Mako Technologies, a heavyweight cyber-security firm. That’s where Evan starts looking, and as she digs deeper, she finds evidence of theft and extortion. Then witnesses to the hit-and-run start dying. It seems that powerful interests are determined to stop Jesse and Evan - once and for all.

Review - This book is a nonstop action thriller. It is very well written with nail biting suspense. This author rocks!! I don’t feel that it was intense as China Lake but it is still very intense! This definitely is another winner! The book is very well done with the characterization of the characters. This series is a Must Read.

Jericho Point
Series: Evan Delaney, Book 3
Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
Release date: 08-05-08

When a young woman tumbles dead onto the beach, the police identify the body. It’s Evan Delaney. Except that Evan is very much alive. It’s her identify that has been stolen. And the thief has compromised more than just Evan’s bank account. She has been scamming money from rich Hollywood wannabes - including a vicious drug boss. He wants his money back. From Evan. Soon she finds herself harassed by drug runners and suspected of murder. She must save herself - but to do that must escape a web of deceit that threatens to destroy not just her, but also her boyfriend Jesse.

Many reviewers gave this low marks – must be the weak one of the series.

Crosscut
Series: Evan Delaney, Book 4
Length: 11 hrs and 10 mins
Release date: 09-02-08

In the fourth Evan Dalaney novel, Evan returns to China Lake for her high school reunion and discovers that the death toll among her classmates is unusually high. After two classmates are brutally murdered, Evan suspects something is up and begins to piece together what might be killing her classmates.

It all stems back to a day when the group took a field trip to the local Navy base and were exposed to some kind of experiment. The results are still haunting and affecting the group to this day and it also created a serial killer who is hunting down the people on the trip and slowly eliminating them. Evan is forced to dig into her past to find answers and to try and stop the killer before he or she kills again. And when Evan discovers she’s pregnant, things become even more urgent.

A review - The problems of having a first-person perspective begin to break through as the novel progresses. The story requires that some events unfold outside of Evan’s viewpoint and Meg Gardiner shows us those events. It’s all about upping the suspense quotient, but unfortunately it proves distracting in the novel’s final third. Gardiner is forced to jump between three perspectives in the novel’s final pages and it makes the ending seem a bit forced and overly melodramatic.

Kill Chain
Series: Evan Delaney, Book 5
Length: 10 hrs and 32 mins
Release date: 10-20-08

When Evan Delaney’s father disappears, the cops think he’s fled the country to avoid prosecution. But Evan is sure he’s been abducted or killed for reasons associated with his work for Naval Intelligence. As Evan hunts for clues, an armed man attacks her. The attacker ends up dead—and turns out to be a federal agent. Now Evan is on the run, implicated in his murder. And then she’s contacted by a sinister duo—a madam and gigolo mother-and-son team who claim her father was mixed up in their very dirty business. Can Evan save her father’s reputation—and his life?

A review - A thrill a minute; I could hardly put this book down. I’m so disappointed Gardiner hasn’t written any more books in this series. Don’t leave us hanging, Meg! So much still has to be resolved. And I’m sure our hero and heroine are going to up for another thrilling ride!