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Third-year law student Kayla Beck receives a chilling telephone call. A stranger has chosen her to be the rescuer of a woman he has abducted. Kayla can either attempt to rescue the victim and possibly save her life or she can ignore the call and never be bothered again. If she disregards the call, however, no one else will get a similar opportunity. The woman will die. What happens next catapults both Kayla and Denver homicide detective Bryson Coventry into a deadly world where the FBI has been hunting unsuccessfully for years; a world of unknown boundaries and dangers; a world where, in the end, the only hope of getting out is to go all the way in.
PRAISE FOR DEADLY LAWS
"A] clever and engrossing mystery tale involving gorgeous women, lustful men and scintillating suspense.
ForeWord Reviews
"As a third-year law student, Kayla Beck has plenty on her plate even before a phone call completely changes her life. A stranger tells her where she can find a woman bound in chains, fighting for her life, and says that only Kayla can save her. Should she ignore the creepy call and maybe let a woman die so she won’t be inconvenienced? Should she report the call and risk her own life, as the caller threatened? Instead, she goes where directed—an old rail yard—on her own and soon realizes she is in way over her head. A Denver homicide detective, Bryson Coventry, is involved in the case, too, but he knows less about the perpetrator than Kayla and her new “friends”—other women who’ve been targets of anonymous phone calls requesting that they save a life. Despite some gratuitous sexual content, Deadly Laws successfully pairs an intriguing premise and some solid suspense into a satisfying entry in the ever-expanding [detective genre]."
--Booklist
"[Deadly Laws]is one top-notch read. Again, Mr. Hansen adds just the right amount of mystery, suspense, romance, horror and nail-biting adventure to keep you turning the pages. Be warned, there is some rude-talk and sexual content to be aware of. However, for those who love the hair standing-up on your neck fear; the delving into the mind of a heart-less killer and the challenge of solving one outstanding who done it read; you will love this book. It is a murder mystery that you will never know or even imagine what lies around the next turn; I promise you that. Excellent read!"
--Shirley Johnson, Senior Reviewer, Midwest Book Review
"Jim Michael Hansen knows how to keep his readers on the edge of their seats, and perhaps a time or two you may find yourself teetering on the edge in the process. Expect a spiraling plot and some seriously deranged characters, they drive the plot along and make you glad you are locked up in your cozy little house and not in the streets of Bryson Coventry's district!"
-- Roundtable Reviews
"DEADLY LAWS is face paced and well plotted novel. Hansen has once again demonstrated that he a gifted wordsmith and he able to balance the thriller, crime, romance and violence aspects of writing and develop them into a well written novel. In each of the novels of this series Hansen is able to draw the reader in quickly and hold them captive until the satisfying ending is at hand. For the uninitiated, this is a caffeinated, high tension tour de force."
--Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine
"This is the first book I’ve read by this author. I really enjoyed it and look forward to reading more. I highly recommend this book! Just remember, start it when you have lots of time to read. You won’t be able to put it down!"
-- Mystery Lovers Corner
"Should you read this book? Yes, definitely. I have said this before about this author’s other works and it still applies now; turn off your crime thrillers on television and tune-in to this book."
--In the Library Reviews
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Deadly Laws: excellent!
Deadly Laws is not as good as the excellent Jim Michael Hansen novel Shadow Laws: it is better.
Wow.
In my review of Shadow Laws I wrote about how much I enjoyed the great characters, the suspense, and the roller coaster plot of that great novel.What makes Deadly Laws superior is that all of the great elements found in Shadow Laws are to be found in Deadly Laws--but bigger and better.
Talk about a bad guy: Vance Lundeen of Deadly Laws would kick the butt of Shadow Laws Nathan Wickersham . . . and then go have sex.
It's apparent that sex is and will continue to be a major mover in the Law novels.Cool.I don't turn my head during sex scenes in movies--have you seen a James Bond movie?--and I'm not going to blush at these.Sex and money--getting it-- are two major motivators in real life.They should be in fiction too.The characters in the Law series are alpha, A-type personalities.Check with Bill Clinton.
Sex makes these characters human, or inhuman, depending on the character.You love Bryson Coventry and despise Vance Lundeen all the more for the way they approach sex.Sex can show vulnerability and coarseness.Sex can make people (and characters in a novel) do things they might not have otherwise thought themselves capable of, whether it is an act of bravery or an act of inhumanity.
Anyway, my copy of Bangkok Laws just came in the mail.Please pardon me while I go and read it.I'm probably going to be up all night.
What a terrible book
I'm truly not sure what any reviewers see in this book. The characters are shallow and poorly developed, the plot is similar to "Kiss the Girls" but minor league - maybe pee wee league - in comparison and there are very few redeeming characteristics in any of the book's characters. Talk about unrealistic; a woman who is raped, who kills the rapist immediately makes a date and almost as quickly starts having sex in the back seat of the investigating detective's car? Not even the original James Bond moved that quickly (or with less conscience). By page 40, about the only remaining suspenseful(?) question is whether all of the book's characters will have sex. Ycch.
Great Thriller!
This one is guarenteed to impress just as much as the others in the "Laws" series.Hansen has done it again.I highly recommend this thriller!
You won't be able to put this down!
Kayla Beck is a law student.Life is going along well until she receives a strange phone call where the voice is distorted.The caller tells her there's a woman being held in a box car, and she's the only one who can save her and only if she acts quickly and follows the directions exactly.Kayla does so and is able to save Aspen White, but not before Aspen kills a man.They become friends and pair up to try to find the serial killer who called Kayla.
Denver Homicide Detective Bryson Coventry is called to the murder of a man in a box car.Then later a law student is found dead by the tracks.Bryson feels in his gut these cases are related, but he can't find what ties them together.
Tracking down a car seen at the first crime scene, Bryson arrives at Kayla's apartment only to find Aspen White.He is drawn to her because she is so beautiful, and they become involved.
When more young women go missing and end up dead, Bryson realizes he is on the trail of a serial killer.An FBI profiler, who is also Bryson's friend, comes to help with the case.She's been tracking this guy for years.What neither of them knows is that Kayla and Aspen are also looking for the same guy.Can they find him before he kills again and without putting themselves in danger?
I have to say this is one book you will have trouble putting down from page one.The author has done a fabulous job of pulling the reader in and keeping them there.He has a great knack at switching from one part of the story to another at just the right time.He will keep you wondering what is going on until the last page.There are lots of twists and turns and suspense.
This is the first book I've read by this author.I really enjoyed it and look forward to reading more.I highly recommend this book!Just remember, start it when you have lots of time to read.You won't be able to put it down!
The Luscious Suspense Continues
Kayla Beck loves her life as a law student; excited as to what the future holds for her.Then the deep, scrambled voice coming through her cell phone threatened all of that.Next thing she knew, she was caught up in another woman's obsessive journey into revenge.
Denver Detective Bryson Coventry is the best homicide cop around.It seemed that all the best - and most complicated murders - come his way.True to form, he has stumbled into another one.First it is just a murdered drifter.Then a young law student shows up dead.The two deaths seem unrelated at first, but Bryson's gut tells him differently.Digging deeper, he finds himself in a race to catch a serial killer.
This is the fourth book in the author's series of "Law" books.Having read the other three, I have to say when I heard there was a fourth I was a bit skeptical that Mr. Hansen could keep up the same pace and mystery that the previous books had.
"O ye of little faith," keeps running through my head.How could I have ever doubted that the author was up to the task?Not only did I learn a few new things about him, I got to fall in lust again with the same sexy and intriguing Bryson I had met before. One thing that still amazed me is the way this Detective attracts women.He is never content with just working through the mysteries of his cases, but continually wanders through the ever-changing mystery of women.(And they always seem to be beautiful women.)
Just as with the previous three books, this one grabbed me from the first page.My habit is to go through a book a few chapters at a time.With this one, I sat down just after dinner, and other than a couple of breaks, I finished it the same night (actually it was the next morning).The story does not get boring or bogged down in details.This author has a great knack for going just deep enough into one area and then shifting to another just at the right time.This technique also helps to build the tension.And believe me - there is tension.
Should you read this book?Yes, definitely.I have said this before about this author's other works and it still applies now; turn off your crime thrillers on television and tune-in to this book.
K. Martin
In The Library Reviews
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A Good Read
Lots of Holes in This Plot