Edge of Evil

It was a great book. A friend gave me the rest of the series but it was missing the first book of the series.

This is another one of J A Jance's good books. This is in the series of Ali Reynolds. As usual for this author, she catches you in the beginning and when you think you have it figured out, you don't. I'm a collector of her series books and this is right up there with a good series starting.

Alison Reynolds is fired after her late night newscast. She doesn't even get to tell her viewers good-bye. Frustrated with the executives wanting a "younger face," she decides to sue. Her husband, one of the executives, tells her that would not be a good move. Once she finds out he has been cheating on her, she doesn't listen to his advice. Matter of fact, she starts divorce proceedings as well. When she is called back home to Sedona, AZ, due to the death of her childhood friend, she doesn't believe that her friend committed suicide. She begins to talk to people and look into what her friend had been going through before her death. Ali's son talks her into starting an online blog to be able to say good-bye to her viewers and it soon turns into therapy for others like her. Ali also helps out her parents who run the Sugarloaf Café when her father is injured and can't work. She soon begins getting threatening posts. Too late she realizes she has given a lot of personal information over the web. Can she uncover the truth about her friend's death and stay safe from the person threatening her? I hope this book becomes a new series for author J. A. Jance. I really like Ali and would love to read about her again and again. Ali is a well-written character. The settings really lend themselves to this story. The plot is wonderfully constructed. I devoured this book in two days because I just couldn't put it down. I highly recommend it.

I really don't understand all the negative reviews about this book. I found it an easy to read pleasant mystery, with a main character in midlife turmoil I wanted to sympathize with. J. A. Jance did an excellent job keeping the pace reasonably fast, while not losing the reader with extraneous characters.

As usual, J.A. Jance has provided a great piece of entertainment. Rather than using a detective or police officer as the main character, she uses an ex-anchor for an LA local news station who becomes a blogger. For those of you not familiar with the term "blogger" it is a person who keeps a journal, or log, on the web and makes regular posts. Ali, the heroine of the novel, posts her story on the web and finds that she now has contact with her audience she never experienced before - contact that can be life-threatening. As is her practice, Ms. Jance keeps the reader involved with the people in her story by making them come alive with friends, relatives and villans. Give her story a read - you'll be surprised.