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Divine Intervention
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| Published by Trafford Publishing |
| July 2004 |
| ISBN: 1-4120-3591-0 |
CFBI agent Jasmine McLellan is assigned a hot case-one that requires the psychic abilities of the PSI Division, a secret government agency located in the secluded town of Divine, BC.
Jasi leads a psychically gifted team in the hunt for a serial arsonist-a murderer who has already taken the lives of three innocent people. Unleashing her gift as a Pyro-Psychic, Jasi is compelled toward smoldering ashes and enters the killer's mind. A mind bent on destruction and revenge.
Jasi's team, consisting of Psychometric Empath and profiler, Ben Roberts, and Victim Empath, Natassia Prushenko, is led down a twisting path of dark, painful secrets. Brandon Walsh, the handsome, smooth-talking Chief of Arson Investigations joins them in a manhunt that takes them across British Columbia-from Vancouver to Kelowna, Penticton and Victoria.
While impatiently sifting through the clues that were left behind, Jasi and her team realize that there is more to the third victim than meets the eye. Perhaps not all of the victims were that innocent. The hunt intensifies when they learn that someone they know is next on the arsonist's list.
The case heats to the boiling point as Jasi steps out of the flames…and into the fire. And in the heat of early summer, Agent Jasi McLellan discovers that a murderer lies in wait…much closer than she imagined.
"Please!" the old woman begged pitifully when she regained consciousness.
With one hand raised to protect her bloodied face, she scrambled along the floor of the shed, searching for escape, clawing at the rough cedar planks below her.
"Please, let me go! I've done nothing!"
Crouching down with a piece of yellow rope grasped firmly between my hands, I stared at her. She reminded me of a deer, caught in the headlights of an oncoming car.
Removing the hood from my head, I smiled.
Her eyes widened with recognition and terror.
I carefully tied her feet together and pushed her to a sitting position. Then I wrapped the stiff rope around her neck. Yanking her toward the wooden workbench, I heard her gasping for air, her short legs jerking spasmodically beneath her.
I leaned down and asked her one important question.
With a glimmer of hope in her terrified eyes, she whispered the answer in a small voice.
"No…man. No…man wash―"
"Nana?" a child's voice called from outside the utility shed.
I held my breath and prayed that the child would go away, but when the door opened and a small face peered inside, I knew that I had no other choice.
Grabbing the little girl's arm, I hauled her into the shed.
"You should have stayed inside the house. Now look what you're making me do, you naughty girl."
The child whimpered softly while I tied her tightly to the semi-conscious woman. And then I left them, trussed up like animals, while I made the final preparations.
Divine Intervention Reviews:
"Wow! Tardif's first adventure into the Mystery/Thriller genre is fantastic."
~ Christine from Christinesbooklist.com
"Cheryl has developed her characters very well. Their emotions are stripped bare, and you feel you know them. I almost fell in love with the handsome, Brandon Walsh.
The chemistry between Jasmine and Brandon, is hotter than being in Bali!
The plots twist and turn, so you are won’t expect what happens next.
This book was so interesting, that I read it in one day. To be fair, if I wasn’t in bed taking care of my broken ankle it would have taken me a few days to read it...I hope this was the first book in a series, because I found the CFBI team very interesting.
Cheryl, as they say on Canadian Idol, ’’good on yah’’."
~ Lyla, a Mouthshut.com reviewer
"It was AWESOME! It was like a futuristic CSI! Loved it!"
~ Dori G.
"Divine Intervention is a divine treasure!
Finally, a Canadian novel by a Canadian author that captures Canadiana in its finest. Cheryl Kaye Tardif's most recent novel is comparative to Nora Roberts' "In Death" series that is penned under the pseudonym of 'J.D. Robb'.
In the first of Tardif's Divine series, Divine Intervention introduces the reader to an elite group of psychic government agents. The chemistry between Jasmine McLellan, the pyro-psychic who enters a serial killer's mind, and Brandon Walsh, the Chief of Arson Investigations, is hotter than a Florida heat wave.
Cheryl Kaye Tardif successfully manipulates the characters, their emotions and actions, and takes you to a startling climax that will leave you suspended. The shocking twist at Divine Intervention's conclusion will rip your emotions bare as you enter the world of a serial arsonist bent on revenge.
I enjoyed this novel immensely and will be awaiting Tardif's next book with hot, sweaty palms. Cheryl Kaye Tardif is destined to be a great Canadian author--and is the new 'Canadian J.D. Robb'."
~ Melissa Teeq, an Amazon.ca reviewer
"Cheryl Kaye Tardif's hot futuristic thriller, Divine Intervention, radiates suspense and mystery. Divine Intervention transports the reader to a tomorrow with comforting echoes of today, but also with strange possibilities that challenge expectations.
Tardif's passionate crime solvers are anything but ordinary, in any time: three high-strung special investigators endowed with psychic powers, which enable them to pierce the veil separating the physical world from a fleeting dimension of shadowy thoughts and events. Their extrasensory vision isn't perfect, though, and Jasi, Natassia, and Ben must always supplement their gifts with old-fashioned detective work and strategic, if sometimes unpleasant, alliances to make up the balance. Paradoxically, their unusual abilities can render them dangerously vulnerable, transforming the hunters into the prey, the magicians of emotion into nearly helpless pawns.
The author skillfully ties and unties knots in a plot line stretching back decades to a source of evil now unleashing fiery destruction and horrible death amid the scenic wonders of British Columbia, Canada. Tardif fuels her story with relentless pacing, marvelously cryptic clues, frequent surprises, and convincing details of criminal investigation and firefighting. The narrative temperature reaches feverish intensity when multiple conflicts threaten to ignite and obsessive attractions cloud rationality with sensual steam.
As a mystery author and lover of a well-told tale, I found much to admire and enjoy in Divine Intervention by Cheryl Kaye Tardif."
~ Jimmy Fox, author of genealogical mysteries--
www.jimmyfox.com, and an Amazon.ca reviewer
"An action-packed book for summer readers. As with all well-written mysteries, the perpetrator turns out to be the person who the reader least expects. The many entangled relationships between the characters ensure that the story will keep readers turning pages."
~ Bruce Atchison, freelance writer (Read full review below)
"Divine Intervention was a hugely pleasant surprise. Cheryl Kaye Tardif has definitely found her genre with this new crime novel set in the not-so-far future. Believable characters, and scorching plot twists. Anyone who is a fan of JD Robb will thoroughly enjoy this one--especially any who have been waiting for an excellent voice to bring alive a genuinely Canadian crime novel. Divine Intervention will undeniably leave you smoldering--and dying for more."
~ Kelly Christian, WGA member and DF (Devout Fan), and an Amazon.ca reviewer
"WONDERFUL! Riveting, with imagery almost agonizingly clear. Tardif's characters and story have an integrity that makes it nearly impossible to stop reading!"
~ Kate Leighton, Canadian editor and writer
"Here's an action-packed book for summer readers. Set in the year 2012, Divine Intervention tells the story of a secret government-funded crime-fighting organization with one notable difference; along with high tech devices, they solve cases with their inborn telepathic talents.
Guided by a murdered girl in a reoccurring childhood nightmare, Agent Jasmine McLellan is assigned the task of hunting down a psychotic arsonist who has already murdered 3 people in the Kelowna area.
McLellan is partnered with an Empath named Natassia Prushenko, and a mind-reading profiler named Benjamin Roberts who also is a marshal arts expert. With her amazing ability to see through the killer's eyes and relive his murders, Jasi, as her friends call her, is able to glean vital clues about the culprit.
The team's task is complicated by the involvement of the Premiere of British Columbia, a hospital administrator, a reporter who knows too much about the case, and a loner pharmacist. All of them seem to be promising suspects. Certain law enforcement personnel didn't make their job easier either.
As with all well-written mysteries, the perpetrator turns out to be the person who the reader least expects. The many entangled relationships between the characters ensure that the story will keep readers turning pages.
Cheryl Kaye Tardif is an Edmontonian, transplanted from Vancouver, who has had a novel called Whale Song, published in September 2003. Her numerous poems have appeared in small Canadian newspapers and she has authored 2 regular columns in B.C.
Whale Song is available in Greenwoods and other Edmonton book stores. It can also be ordered at http://www.amazon.ca . A techno-thriller, called The River, is in the works and should be published next year.
More information about this author can be found on her http://www.cherylktardif.com web site. You can also read about her motivational speaking career. She can be contacted at her cherylktardif@shaw.ca e-mail address."
~ Bruce Atchison is a freelance writer and electronic music composer living in Radway, AB. He can be reached at his ve6xtc@telusplanet.net e-mail address.
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