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    Dance for the Dead
    Dance for the Dead
    Dance for the Dead
    Audiobook11 hours

    Dance for the Dead

    Written by Thomas Perry

    Narrated by Joyce Bean

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    About this audiobook

    When eight-year-old Timothy Decker finds his parents brutally murdered, it's clear the Deckers weren't the intended victims: Timothy's own room-ransacked, all traces of his existence expertly obliterated-is the shocking evidence. Timothy's nanny, Mona, is certain about only one thing. Timmy needs to disappear, fast.

    Only Jane Whitefield, a Native American "guide" who specializes in making victims vanish, can lead him to safety. But diverting Jane's attention is Mary Perkins, a desperate woman with SL fraud in her past. Stalking Mary is a ruthless predator determined to find her-and the fortune she claims she doesn't have. Jane quickly creates a new life for Mary and jumps back on Timmy's case...not knowing that the two are fatefully linked to one calculating killer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 20, 2009
    ISBN9781400180219
    Dance for the Dead
    Author

    Thomas Perry

    Thomas Perry is the New York Times bestselling author of nearly thirty novels, including the critically acclaimed Jane Whitefield series, The Old Man, and The Butcher's Boy, which won the Edgar Award. He lives in Southern California. Follow Thomas on Facebook at @ThomasPerryAuthor.

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    • 3/5
      The main character, Jane Whitefield, has helped many fugitives disappear and start new lives. She works to help Timmy Decker when his parents die and he finds out they weren't his parents after all but his kidnappers. He is Timmy Philips - heir to a hugh inheritance, and becomes a pawn between parties who want to get their hands on the money. She also helps Mary Perkins, a professed former criminal, who won't divulge much information to Jane about her current troubles.
    • 3/5
      The main character, Jane Whitefield, has helped many fugitives disappear and start new lives. She works to help Timmy Decker when his parents die and he finds out they weren't his parents after all but his kidnappers. He is Timmy Philips - heir to a hugh inheritance, and becomes a pawn between parties who want to get their hands on the money. She also helps Mary Perkins, a professed former criminal, who won't divulge much information to Jane about her current troubles.
    • 5/5
      Jane Whitfield is kick-arse!

      Want a heart-thumping, nail-biting, on-the-edge-of-your-seat thrill read? Then you might want to add Dance for the Dead to your "to read" list.

      The Native-American, one-woman Witness Protection Program?Jane Whitfield?is back in the second of a series of Thomas Perry suspense thriller masterpieces, in which she stars as the protagonist with the capability to help people on the run from those who wish to do them deadly harm disappear, by providing them with new identities. In this, the second installment, she travels, cross-country, to aid a young child named Timmy, whose adoptive parents have been brutally murdered in their home by professional killers ... The same killers who are also hunting a woman named Mary, a fugitive on the run for swindling a savings and loan operation.

      The nail-biting plot only thickens when Jane finds herself in the position of having to assist both the hunted child, and the hunted fugitive?relying solely on her Native-American Seneca heritage for guidance.

      I thoroughly enjoyed the well-written Dance for the Dead, but I don't want to go on in this review, lest I unintentionally give away too much of the story. It's definitely worth a read if you love mystery and suspense thrillers. And you will love Jane Whitfield. Trust me.
    • 5/5
      Read this book straight through today! This Jane Whitefield series is incredible! Can't wait to start book 3!
    • 4/5
      PLOT OR PREMISE:Jane Whitefield is back and trying to guide an 8-year-old boy with an inheritance and a 30-year-old woman with stolen bank money to a safe haven..WHAT I LIKED:The methodology for how Jane helps everyone is quite good, and reads both simple and plausible, a veneer of realism that sells the stories. The explanations for both cases are relatively clear, you understand the motives and why someone is coming after the two of them. Most of the story is a cat and mouse world, and it works well..WHAT I DIDN'T LIKE:The two stories seem unconnected at the beginning but it blindlingly obvious they will eventually connect, even if it is a connection told in reverse (i.e. if you know the connection in advance, you can write two separate stores to get there), but it seems coincidental rather than natural. There are also two really long expositions, one at the beginning for the kid's back story and one in the middle for hers. Finally, there is some romance that comes out of nowhere for the character, particularly as you have been in her head for sometime and then it's like, "Cue the romance scene with guy she knows but we don't."..DISCLOSURE:I received no compensation, not even a free copy, in exchange for this review. I am not personal friends with the author, nor do I follow him / her on social media.
    • 4/5
      I discovered not long ago that I had missed a couple in the Jane Whitfield series. A wonderful discovery, I might add. In this one Jane screws up (a pretty major departure if you've read any of the others) and four people get killed. A lot of the Jane Whitfiled plots are indistinguishable from one another but that does not make them any less fascinating or any less enjoyable to read. This is another good one.
    • 5/5
      My second book in the Jane Whitefield series and while I enjoyed the first I really loved this one.She's a Seneca woman, living in nearby (for us) just across the border, in Buffalo/Niagara Falls. Jane makes people disappear - no not offs them but aids them to get away from nasty folk. In this book, set in the 1990's, it's all about savings and loans nasties and a couple of victims - a young boy and a woman who was at one time a con-artist. The descriptions of how the crooks cheated the banks, yes the banks are not the real baddies here, is intricate and fascinating.Another superb one.
    • 2/5
      I did not enjoy this book as much as the first one. It seemed to drag on for me and something, I don't know what, is missing.
    • 4/5
      How does he make this character so appealing? another fine addition.
    • 3/5
      This is the second in the Jane Whitfield series. Following a successful child protection, Jane is enlisted by someone she met briefly in jail who is being pursued by several men. It turns out that “Mary Perkins” was involved in several schemes to make money off the deregulation of the S&L’s (I happen to like the details of historical financial corruption, but it may bore the crap out of most people.)

      Mary is reluctant to follow Jane’s directions. Hiding involves changing one’s personality as much as one’s looks. Things one liked before need to be ignored or disliked. If you liked money and sunshine, you need to move someplace where it’s cold and live ostentatiously. The details for creating new paperwork for new identities is truly fascinating. I wondered just how much experience Perry has in this regard.

      The scene then shifts back to the child who, Jane suspects, is still in danger from the law firm that handled his Grandmother’s trust. She realized that the firm had a way to scam all the money out of the trust. They way they intended to do this is a wonder of convoluted legal machinations that, I suspect, might provide a blueprint for the hoards of unscrupulous lawyers out there, so if you are a lawyer, please don’t read this book. Jane sets out to scam the scammers with the help of a friendly and honest judge. The two cases merge as Mary and Jane are pursued by an unscrupulous private investigator.

      Again, Perry intermingles lots of Native American lore into the story. Again, for me, at least, it seemed too peripheral, if interesting. Sometimes, the books seems almost a primary on how to disappear. I doubt if it would surprise anyone that Jane gets her revenge in the end.
    • 5/5
      Considering that this book was written quite a while ago, it still holds up as one action packed little story. In my opinion: Thomas Perry's books are fun to read, and reread!
    • 5/5
      Instead of solving crimes that have already occurred, Jane Whitefield specializes in preventative action. Usually, this means that she helps people to vanish into new identities before they can be murdered or otherwise harmed. In this book, she has two clients: one needs to appear, one needs to disappear. The first is a little boy who is the heir to millions of dollars; someone wants him declared legally dead before he can appear in court to collect his inheritance. The other is a crooked female banker who went to jail for S&L fraud. She swears that she hasn't stashed away any money from her previous malfeasances; but someone still thinks she's worth hunting down on the off chance. Jane helps produce the boy and hide the banker before realizing that the cases are linked to a criminal conspiracy of startling proportions.I really enjoyed this one. This is the 3rd Jane Whitefield that I've read, although this is the middle book of the 3. Jane comes over as a very human person, but she does commit some horrific murders herself. In this one she promises to marry Carey McKinnon in a year's time.