Vanishing Act

by Thomas Perry

Thank you to our library director for this recommendation, what a terrific new series I get to read while waiting for my growing list of favorite authors to write their next books. Jane Whitefield is one tough character, right from the beginning she is stronger and more self sufficient than anyone I've ever read before, man or woman. She takes people who need disappearing, be it abused wives, or army deserters and finds new identities and lives for them. When a man breaks into her house and asks for her help she reluctantly agrees only after grilling him relentlessly about how he found her and how he heard about her. Dodging some bad guys, finding herself interested in "John", her client, Jane is successful in hiding him but her trouble doesn't end there. How she handles herself through all her adversity and how she ends up avenging her friends is just awe-inspiring, my jaw dropped several times. I can't wait to read the next one, what a terrific novel.