Dark Pursuit, Reviewed
December 5, 2008
This week, the
Christian Fiction Blog Alliance
is introducing
Zondervan (December 1, 2008)
by
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Brandilyn Collins is known for her trademark Seatbelt Suspense®. She is currently working on her 20th book. For chances to win free copies of her work, join her Fan Club on Facebook. Here’s what Brandilyn has to say about why she wrote Dark Pursuit:
In John Milton’s Paradise Lost Satan’s followers, kicked out of heaven, boast about storming the gates and reclaiming their territory. Beelzebub scoffs at their boasting as merely “hatching vain empires” and suggests a different revengeful scheme: seduce mankind away from God. So Satan visits the Garden of Eden to teach humans the very thing he and his cohorts have learned to be futile—the dark pursuit of hatching their own vain empires instead of following God. He presented man with this “gift” of death, disguised as life. And man fell for it.
Upon this theme of man’s fall and spiritual blindness, I created the characters and events in Dark Pursuit. The story clips along at a fast pace, with much symbolism running underneath.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Dark Pursuit—A twisting story of murder, betrayal, and eternal choices
Novelist Darell Brooke lived for his title as King of Suspense—until an auto accident left him unable to concentrate. Two years later, reclusive and bitter, he wants one thing: to plot a new novel and regain his reputation.
Kaitlan Sering, his twenty-two-year-old granddaughter, once lived for drugs. After she stole from Darell, he cut her off. Now she’s rebuilding her life. But in Kaitlan’s town two women have been murdered, and she’s about to discover a third. She’s even more shocked to realize the culprit—her boyfriend, Craig, the police chief’s son.
Desperate, Kaitlan flees to her estranged grandfather. For over forty years, Darell Brooke has lived suspense. Surely he’ll devise a plan to trap the cunning Craig.
But can Darell’s muddled mind do it? And—if he tries—with what motivation? For Kaitlan’s plight may be the stunning answer to the elusive plot he seeks…
Read the first chapter of Dark Pursuit, HERE.
Sally Says: Man, Brandilyn Collins is good. I like a gripping suspense novel, and she really knows how to write them. If you’ve read her blog, you’ve heard her say how much she struggles to write, but for Pete’s sake, it never shows in the final product. She’s written so many different suspense novels that you’d think they’d begin to get repetitive, but nope. Not a bit.
And in Dark Pursuit she’s come up with another unique story with realistic characters. If you’re a suspense fan, you must read her latest book. Just a warning, though — don’t start reading late in the day because you won’t be able to put the book down.
Comments
3 Responses to “Dark Pursuit, Reviewed”
This was a quick read for sure. She amped up the tension very well. Love her early novels (Eyes of Elisha, Dread Champion). Good book.
I love suspense, and yet I’ve never read any Brandilyn Collins. What am I waiting for, I wonder? (In my defense, I do have one of hers on my “to be read” shelf, which is alarmingly crowded.)
I just purchased this book and can’t wait to read it. I’m a big fan of Brandilyn’s, both as a writer and as a person. She’s amazing.