No One Left to Tell

Let me keep this simple. I own all of Jordan Dane's thrillers. I have read ALL of them at least twice. And I'm very much looking forward to the next. Jordan has a palette of words which will tickle your intelligence and grab you with immersion in a time and place which becomes completely real. Wonderful plots, twists, and some passionate steam fill out the picture. Don't take my word for it. Read it yourself.

Both Christian and Raven carry wounds from their childhoods--Christian suffering horrific tragedy at the hands of the police and Raven losing her father, a police officer, to an unknown random predator. Christian loathes the order to work with Raven, a police officer, to solve a murder that dredges up the terrors of his past. She fumbles in her attempt to maintain her usual guard while working in tandem with Christian, a dangerous force of nature, self-taught in unusual skills of defense . . . and predation. They both must walk a tight emotional and professional line, risking succumbing to the traumas of their past and to death itself while fighting their evolving healing connection.

It all starts with a dead body left garishly displayed at St. Sebastian's Chapel.... Detectives Raven Mackenzie and Tony Rodriguez are assigned the murder case and the trail leads them straight to Dunhill Corporation and its owner, Fiona Dunhill. Fiona insists on a joint investigation with her head of security, Christian Delacorte, and she has the political clout to ensure it happens. Raven has to wonder what secrets Fiona and Christian are hiding, particularly as the investigation soon turns deadly in a much more personal way. Will the dark secrets of the past come out if there is NO ONE LEFT TO TELL? Jordan Dane juxtaposes lightness and darkness throughout NO ONE LEFT TO TELL. Some of the scenes are quite graphic but the brutality is tempered by a sense of hope and rebirth. Second chances are a key theme of Jordan Dane's work and this is ever-present in NO ONE LEFT TO TELL. No matter how much a character veers towards evil or good, each character is given an opportunity for a second chance, even perhaps redemption. Jordan Dane shows true brilliance with her intricate storyline and deep rooted emotional themes that are sure to resonate with the readers. Jordan Dane's characters always walk the knife edge in their quests to do the right thing. Christian in particular is a haunting figure, a man filled with mystery and intrigue. Raven is far more open but her attraction to Christian puts her in the dubious position of being caught between the career she loves and the man she is starting to love. The emotional rollercoaster that both these characters take the reader on can be almost overwhelming in its intensity. NO ONE LEFT TO TELL is the sophomore effort from an author who is quickly showing she is a force to be reckoned with. Readers should note that NO ONE LEFT TO TELL is essentially a stand alone story although there are some threads left hanging for Ms. Dane's next release. NO ONE LEFT TO TELL is a dark thriller that is both captivating and intriguing. COURTESY OF CK2S KWIPS AND KRITIQUES

I have to start this review by saying that, an avid paintbal player, I have never seen paintballs used in a more insidious fashion, lol In Dane's second offering, she displays every hallmark of becoming one of the great authors of our time. Her characters are believable in thier strengths, weaknesses, personalities, and quirks. Friendships, romances, and adverserial relationships are portrayed in a realistic fashion that makes you like the good guys and love to hate the baddies. Protagonist cop Raven MacKenzie and her partner Tony have an especially nice relationship, a teasing friendship without a hint of sexual tension, so true of best friends of the opposite sex. As Raven investigates a murder (where paintballs play a pivital role), she is forced to team up with Christian Delecorte, a good guy who hates the cops with good reason (or are his reasons good?). As in her first novel, Dane throws many twists and curveballs our way, presents a budding romance, and an intruiging mystery. If her future books prove to be half this good, they're to be read on prinicple alone. Dane knows how to tell a story and keep you absorbed from beginning to end. You root for the characters you're meant to root for, hate the ones your meant to hate, and just plain aren't sure how to feel about the ones you're meant to be uncertain about. Another wonderfully engaging offering by an author who promises to keep us entertained for years to come.

Jordan Dane combines romance and suspense in NO ONE LEFT TO TELL to the benefit of both. This book is the first part which works as a standalone but develops a new level of intrigue found here in NO ONE LIVES FOREVER. Jordan Dane is a 2008 debut author who will appeal to suspense and romantic suspense lovers as a fantastic pleasure read and also readers who want a little more in their pleasure reads than a fast-paced plot. The mystery here makes the pages fly and yet at the same time the author's imagery and finely crafted structure makes this a pleasure read beyond just a great story. Father Antonio discovers a dead body in the chapel. Brutally slain, this body holds a message carved into the body, in its eeriness equal to the position of the body itself. The identity of the victim leads Detective Raven Mackenzie to the mysterious Fiona Dunhill, head of an organization rumored to have connections to the shady side of the law. When Fiona orders Christian Delacorte to assist the investigation, Raven suspects that Christian has his own agenda. Face to face with the mysterious and ever so sexy Christian Delacorte, a man who is both the key and the wall to her investigation, Raven must use all her detective skills and her heart to work through the maze of clues and obstacles before her. Ravens investigation will put Christian's loyalties to the ultimate test, forcing him to choose between two women: Fiona, a woman who has been like a mother to him when tragedy turned his childhood into a nightmare and Raven, a woman whose body and spirit captivates him. As Raven hunts down the murderer, the clues keep taking her back to the past, a past which haunts and riddles her conceptions, and a past which emerges from the darkness into an intricate layer of relationships. This case reaches down to the core of everything and everyone both Raven and Christian hold dear. Forced together by this investigation, Raven and Christian are attracted by a kind of hot chemistry that won't let up, a chemistry that inspires them to make choices that might lead either or both to slip in their carefully planned procedures and goals. As they hunt down the clues in a careful dance of revealing and hiding from each other to gain the advantage, Raven and Christian's hunt leads them to the dark place where their very lives requires looking into their hearts for answers. Jordan Dane's characters grab the reader's heart in the way only the best Romantic Suspense can, with empathy from the heart and chilling open eyes as situations bring them face to face with heart-stopping danger and romance that heals inner wounds from their darkest past. From her father, Raven inherited a legacy, the law. She sees the world in terms of law and order, black and white. Intelligent, intuitive, and full of audacious spunk, Raven's encounters with Christian challenge the hot chemistry and unexplained inner trust she feels with cold hard facts. When she crosses the line of the yellow police tape, she