Wild ending to a subset trilogy within a much longer series

Night and Day: An Eve Duncan Novel

By: Iris Johansen

Rating: 4 of 5

nightanddayI started reading this series with book number 19 “Shadow Play”, which as it turns out, was the beginning of the trilogy series within the larger Eve Duncan series. I missed book 20 “Hide Away” but picked up again with “Night and Day” which is the last of the three books.

In the first book I read, Eve Duncan worked as a forensic sculptor. In “Night and Day”, her skills are not touched upon and that was more than slightly disappointing. Otherwise, the book was action packed and filled with “bad guys” and paranormal happenings as well as relationships forming and families being completed. The ending was satisfying but it also held promises of more to come in the next book in the series. Hopefully, in the next book, there will be more about Eve’s work which was so intriguing to me in the first book I read in this series.

The trilogy centers around Cara, a young girl who is an extremely gifted violinist. She has been on the run most of her life and now Eve and her partner Joe want to adopt her and give her a life free of fear.

Unfortunately, Cara’s mother, Natalie, has appeared and wants Cara back. She doesn’t want her for anything more than a pawn in a power struggled with her own father, a Russian mobster. This story plays out the struggle to get Cara into a safe place. The action races back and forth between Scotland and Russia as Eve and Joe battle against Natalie and her forces to save Cara once again.

I was provided a temporary digital advance reader copy of this book by the publisher, St. Martin’s Press, via Netgalley.

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