I found the protagonist interesting, although not terribly believable, but it is fiction after all. That said - I will be reading the next Jane Whitefield novel in the series. I'd probably never have read a Thomas Perry novel had it not been for the opportunity offered at a discount price.
I read this one as a response to Audible's offer of affordable first-books-in-a-series. Now on to the good stuff - the book itself.
The narrator, Joyce Bean, barely makes my score of average her reading is pretty flat. Sections are repeated which detracts from being engrossed in the tale. My gripes first - the second half of the book is marred by sloppy auditory editing. The unexpected guest draws this exceptional woman into an adventure of mystery, love and sacrifice, betrayal and vengeance, and propels her on a pursuit that takes her from the night streets of Los Angeles and Vancouver to the dark, unexplored regions of her own mind. But perhaps he is still a policeman and has invented precisely the right story to entrap Jane. Maybe his problems began years ago, when he was a policeman a good cop makes an enemy with each arrest. He doesn't even know whom he is running from - only that whoever is framing him as an embezzler has already circulated an open contract in the prison system for his death. Felker is not like the others Jane has helped, and everything about him is disquieting.
Jane opens her door to find in her house an uninvited visitor named John Felker, the latest to run to her for sanctuary. Many of her clients have been innocent people whom the institutions of society have been too slow and cumbersome to protect, but an increasing number have been like the gambler Harry Kemple: people who aren't especially admirable but who aren't bad enough to deserve to die prematurely.
Jane knows all the tricks in fact, she has invented several of them herself in the ten years she has been teaching fugitives to live with new identities. Still, the supply of runaways - and the need for a woman who will take great risks to save them - have never been greater. But the shaded forest paths her Seneca ancestors might have followed on such missions have all been converted to superhighways, and now the safest way stations are crowded urban buildings that offer the camouflage of anonymity. Jane Whitefield is a Native American guide who leads solitary outcasts through hostile territory to escape the vengeance of their enemies.
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