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In Danielle Grirard's fourth novel, Cold Silence, Cody O'Brien is a former FBI agent, who is trying to hide from the Russian mob. After her husband has killed the son of a powerful mob leader, and is also killed himself, Cody must find a way to protect herself and her son from the dead mobster's family and the revenge they seek. Even though they are placed in the witness protection program by the FBI, these powerful men find Cody and Ryan and nearly succeed in killing them. Cody then decides to take matters into her own hands and protect herself and her son by herself, without the help of the FBI. Shortly after the attempt on their lives, Cody successfully constructs a new life for herself and Cody complete with new identities and a new lifestyle. They seem safe until Cody allows Ryan to spend the night with Peter Landon, one of his friends from school. Through a series of misunderstandings with Ryan's friend, Ryan is kidnapped and the carefully constructed new life that Cody has built begins to crumble. With only the help of Travis Landon, Peter's wealthy father, and Colonel Walter Turner, Cody and Ryan's neighbor, she must find her son and save his life. Cold Silence is a gripping novel, skillfully written and plotted. Girard also provides her readers with finely written characters, whose actions and reactions are believable and true to life. The action is suspenseful and evenly-paced all the way through to the final chapter, when the pace picks up, keeping the reader turning the pages to the novel's conclusion. One of the strengths of Girard's novel is that she sufficiently develops the story's background and major characters. Even minor characters are adequately drawn and add dimension to the story. Girard sets up the situation in a believable way, without relying too much on what might in other, less talented hands, seem coincidence. The ending, though a bit open-ended, is satisfying and leaves the reader ready to read more of Girard's novels.
Reviewed by Kim Holloway, January 2003
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