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Title of Book: Brink of Death Brink of Death, Hidden Faces Series #1 Click on the title in order to purchase your copy or view product details. By Brandilyn Collins I could see the trembling in Erin’s limbs. Kelly reached for Erin’s hands, grasping them hard in her fright. Erin’s mouth creaked open but no sound came. Think good thought, think good thoughts. But my mind raced down terrifying paths, imagining, filling in the blanks. Excerpt from Brink of Death Brink of Death by Brandilyn Collins is a true thriller. It is the first book in the Hidden Faces series about Annie Kingston, who is destined to become a ‘composite artist’ for the police, drawing pictures of criminals from the descriptions of witness. Collins plunges you into trouble, awful trouble, from the very first moment, when a little girl witnesses an attack on her mother. A neighborhood is left terrified. A family is devastated. One woman has a skill, she is just discovering, to draw the face of a madman. Working with the little girl, courtroom artist, Annie is the only one the girl trusts with her brutal memories. Together they produce a face. A face Annie recognizes. Annie is drawn deep into a killer’s sphere as she tries to dig out a dim memory of where she’s seen this man before. Uncertain of her drawing, she is torn. Does she step back from the investigation to protect her own children? Or does she try to help, and maybe risk her family, her home and her own life? Brink of Death had a strange effect on me. From that first, shocking scene, where the little girl, so terrified, witnesses the attack on her mother, I was just inside the covers of that book. Collins is a gifted storyteller. She hits on an emotional level, making you care deeply about her characters. She draws a picture with her words, until you can see the cruel face Annie is drawing, hear the sirens screaming, feel the fingers of fear crawling up your spine. And Collins does it seamlessly, like a great storyteller, so the book stands as a whole, which makes it so difficult to put down. I emailed Brandilyn Collins about Brink of Death. She said: I keep saying that with the Hidden Faces series, I hope to bring the…reader along with Annie through all her crises.” I need to hunt up everything else Collins has ever written and see if she always sucks me in that way. Very few authors can manage it this well. I rate Brink of Death a bona fide Sleep Robber. Reprinted from the Lyons Mirror-Sun |
