Silver Eyes

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Summary: fabulous thriller that hooks readers throughout
Review: In South Boston, defense attorney Marie Blackburn and her police officer spouse Taylor rescue their kidnapped seven year old niece Shaney. Taylor kills the abductor. A few days later, Taylor informs Marie they must hide as the kidnapper's cronies are coming to execute Shaney and her twin Sarah because they can identify them as the robbers of an armored truck containing millions. He also insists that he cannot trust his peers in blue as some mole inside tipped the bad guys.

The extended family flees to isolated Birch Lake, Maine, but on the way two thugs try to kill Marie, her nieces, and their mom. They make it to the family home, but the thieves are coming because they need to silence the siblings whose special gifts of seeing have turned into a nightmare.

This is an exciting thriller with a twist of an ending that will astonish most readers, but thinking back over the plot, Richard Wymes left clues for the reader to see what is coming (this reviewer failed at the obvious). Though one of the crazies to assault Marie and company seems too unstable for the pros coming after the women, the rest of the cast is solid especially the fears that the four females exude. Fans of terse action-packed thrillers with females in trouble story line will appreciate SILVER EYES, a fabulous thriller.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: fabulous thriller that hooks readers throughout
Review: In South Boston, defense attorney Marie Blackburn and her police officer spouse Taylor rescue their kidnapped seven year old niece Shaney. Taylor kills the abductor. A few days later, Taylor informs Marie they must hide as the kidnapper's cronies are coming to execute Shaney and her twin Sarah because they can identify them as the robbers of an armored truck containing millions. He also insists that he cannot trust his peers in blue as some mole inside tipped the bad guys.

The extended family flees to isolated Birch Lake, Maine, but on the way two thugs try to kill Marie, her nieces, and their mom. They make it to the family home, but the thieves are coming because they need to silence the siblings whose special gifts of seeing have turned into a nightmare.

This is an exciting thriller with a twist of an ending that will astonish most readers, but thinking back over the plot, Richard Wymes left clues for the reader to see what is coming (this reviewer failed at the obvious). Though one of the crazies to assault Marie and company seems too unstable for the pros coming after the women, the rest of the cast is solid especially the fears that the four females exude. Fans of terse action-packed thrillers with females in trouble story line will appreciate SILVER EYES, a fabulous thriller.

Harriet Klausner

Rating:
Summary: An astounding thriller with a surprise ending!
Review: Little Shaney and Sarah were special twins. They could see whatever the other was seeing. Their talent made some bad guys edgy though. So someone was coming to kill the little girls. No one knew WHO was coming or WHEN, only that someone was coming!

Marie Blackburn needed someplace safe to hide her sister, Angela, and her little nieces from the killer. They head to the wilderness of northern Maine. The entire trip would be spent looking over their shoulders and outwitting their pursuer.

An astounding thriller with a surprise ending! I HAD to see what was going to happen next, so I was up far into the night turning pages. Not many readers will figure this story's twist out. Recommended!

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Summary: A Must Read
Review: Marie Blackburn is a defense attorney and her husband Taylor is a police officer. This book starts with Marie and her husband chasing the kidnapper who has her sister, Angela and her niece. Taylor kills the kidnapper and rescues her sister and niece.

Now you would think this was the ending instead of the beginning, but it isn't. This is a fast paced thriller that has more twists and turns than a mountain highway. Marie's twin nieces have second sight and have been helping the police in a crime of hijacking, which lead to the kidnapping of one of them and her mother. The perpetrators have discovered this talent of the twins and are after them.

Marie takes her sister, Angela and the twins to a remote cabin in northern Maine, hoping they will be safe there. Marie doesn't know who to trust, Taylor has informed her there is a leak in the police department. In trying to keep her sister and nieces safe, Marie has put her own life in danger.

Also, a million dollars is missing. The bad guys are desperate to keep its hiding place a secret from the police and they have to get to the twins to shut them up. Toss in increasing tension between Marie and her husband and a very twisted plot, you have a mystery that will keep you turning the pages. This is a must read for the mystery reader that likes a fast pace and many twists and turns.

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Summary: A Captivating Crime Thriller!
Review: The gist of this thriller is well-presented elsewhere in this book site, so I won't repeat it. Crime thriller story-telling at its best! This story captivates you......... be prepared to live with this one till you finish it!

John Mansour
Rochester, NY

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Summary: More, Mr. Wynes...MORE!
Review: What an incredible READ!!! The fright is right; the plot is tight. This is a book that has everything that's necessary, and nothing that isn't. It's a genre chase thriller that gripped me from the first paragraph and lever let go. The dialogue is as real as it gets and the situations are believable. There is very little backstory, and what of it there is Wynes slips in unobtrusively.

Reading Silver Eyes, I had the feeling of being propelled, carried along through the scenes. I like action and this novel has it. I was late for work the other day due to having lost track of time. I had picked up the book with the intention of spending twenty minutes with it, but the next time I looked up it was 1 1/2 hours later.

Sometimes Wynes writes in a way that is lyrical, and sometimes in a way that is deliberately ungrammatical, and barebones gritty and real. Either way, the manner of expression always fits the point-of-view character, giving you the sense of seeing things through her or his eyes. You never get this "I am the author and I'm telling you a story" feeling. When you read the book you are experiencing it through the characters.

After one climactic scene I thought the book would end, but several pages were left. I expected forty pages of dreadful epilogue, or wrapup. But the REAL ending was coming up, and it was such a fast-paced shocker that I (really) finished the book all out of breath.

I loved this book.