As a photojournalist, Bess Grady is far more comfortable viewing life through her camera lens than firsthand; the extra distance makes it easier to accept life's atrocities. Still recovering from an assignment on which she witnessed the massacre of an entire Croatian orphanage, Bess accepts an easy assignment from a travel magazine to photograph a ...more

Iris Johansen is a master storyteller whose thrilling novels go straight to the heart of suspense.  Now the celebrated New York Times bestselling author of Long After Midnight and The Ugly Duckling returns with her most nerve-shattering novel ever, a story of deadly greed and global terror.  A seasoned photojournalist, Bess Grady has honed her ...more

When photojournalist Bess Grady arrives in Tenajo, Mexico, with her sister for a well-deserved vacation, the scene that greets them comes straight from hell. Everyone in the village is dead, as if they suddenly became ill and collapsed. Just as frightening is the sight of army trucks filled with soldiers dressed in decontamination suits driving int...more

She expected sunshine and balmy breezes. What she saw was everyone's worst nightmare.Bess Grady has heard the unmistakable sound before. She knows what it means. But not even the eerie lament of the howling dogs can prepare her for what has taken place in the small village. The seasoned photojournalist had been sent there on an easy assignment, an...more

As a photojournalist, Bess Grady is far more comfortable viewing life through her camera lens than firsthand; the extra distance makes it easier to accept life's atrocities. Still recovering from an assignment on which she witnessed the massacre of an entire Croatian orphanage, Bess accepts an easy assignment from a travel magazine to photograph a ...more