Blind Spot Book

Judy Mercer's dazzling national bestseller, Split Image, was dubbed a Page-Turner of the Week -- and hailed as "sexy suspense that will keep you guessing" -- by People magazine. That blockbuster novel starred Mercer's marvelous heroine, TV newsmagazine producer Ariel Gold, whose tangle with memory loss and nail-biting danger was captured with "an irresistible first-person voice -- clever, caustic, and brash" (Minneapolis Star Tribune) in Double Take and Fast Forward. Now Judy Mercer sends Ariel Gold down the pitch-black paths of her own splintered past-while coming to the rescue of a friend lost in a maze of darkness. Good news doesn't come at 4 a.m. For Ariel Gold, proof of that was in the call that woke her in the predawn stillness of a warm Los Angeles night. Her friend Laya, a woman devoted to the quiet harmony and inner balance of yoga, was suddenly blinded after using eyedrops. The LAPD think it's a tragic case of product tampering, with Laya an unlucky victim of chance. But Ariel's not so sure.... Herself a survivor of a violent crime that changed her life forever, Ariel has deeply rooted suspicions about the "bad luck" that has traumatically changed Laya's world in an instant, and she is compelled to take action. As a producer and on-air journalist for the investigative newsmagazine Open File, Ariel can't relegate the mysteries of Laya's assault to the police -- and she undertakes her own urgent search for the truth. But when she receives a troubling letter from a woman she cannot recall, Ariel must decide if it is merely a mysterious message from an unremembered friend-or a masked warning. For Ariel, taking a chance on ensnaring a vicious predator will be like shooting in the dark.Read More