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May 24, 2017 by JBronder

Seeing Double: An Elizabeth Reinhardt Thriller (Olive Branch – 1) by Nancy Alexander

“A chill ran up her spine, triggering an alarm that spread through her system. Her eyes studied him as his eyes studied her. In the recesses of her mind, a fragment of a memory tingled…a tiny blip from long ago. An image spiraled, then vanished. There was something about this young man, this Ari Ben Aviv. There was something about him she couldn’t pinpoint.”

On the heels of her last mystery, Elisabeth’s new patient is more than meets the eye, and unraveling his secrets will throw her team into a desert storm of double agents and religious extremists. All that stands between love and war are two families, two brothers, and two conflicting versions of the truth.

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Author’s Bio

Love of the mystery/thriller genre combines with psychotherapy training and experience to produce an emotionally supercharged dramatic novel. Nancy Alexander has devoted much of her professional life to helping survivors of childhood trauma; their distress has been ingrained and works to create characters who give voice to their plight. To analyze the evil minds that prey on others and the intricacies of law enforcers who pursue them seemed a natural interlacing of professional, literary and creative interests.

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My Review

4 Stars

Five friends made a promise years ago to keep the hatred between their countries from ruining the world. They decided to do what they could to stop the wars. Years earlier one of the women attended college in America and needed help from Elisabeth. Now her son and daughter are going to need her help. Then back at home, two of the other friends has made a life on an olive farm but their daughter was in the wrong place at the wrong time and has been kidnapped. It’s going to be up to the friends, Elisabeth Reinhardt, and the Chevra Hatzollah to help save Jamila and to stop the radicals from creating a bomb to destroy everything and start the holy war.

This book has a lot of characters and events happening at once. It took me a little bit to get into the story because of all the characters. But once I figured out what was happening it was easier to follow along. But I will admit that I really enjoyed the portions with Elisabeth in them and no so much the other subplots. Don’t get me wrong, they are well written well and do make the story flow.

I liked Relentless and was eager to see how Seeing Double was going to play out. I did enjoy it although there was more substance to it compared to Relentless. It is also the start to a new series so there are some things that are left unresolved. I’m eager to see what happens to the in the future books.

I received Seeing Double from iRead Book Tours for free. This has in no way influenced my opinion of this book.

Guest Post

Authenticity is the Key by Nancy J Alexander

I am who I am. That identity is reflected in everything I say and do, in the words I write and the stories I create.

First and foremost, I am a woman. I think and feel, see the world and understand its people from a woman’s point of view.

Secondly, I am a Jew. I see and understand the world from the perspective of a member of a religious group who has suffered death, violence, rejection and persecution at the hands of others.

Third, I am handicapped. I had polio at 10 months of age and carry residual effects from that disease. As a result, my empathetic connection with others is greatly enhanced; I can see what they see and feel what they feel.

Lastly, I am a therapist. My profession is part of my identity; it’s not what I do, but who I am; a culmination life experiences that made me who I am.

In everything I do, from social advocacy, to political engagement, to legislative activism, to being a therapist, to being a writer, I am always coming from the same place. I am a sum total of the factors that made me the person I am and as such I am always working to make the world a better place. I am always working to communicate something meaningful, to raise people’s consciousness, to effect change.

I come to my life’s work from a place of hope and confidence. I believe that people can change; I see good in the world. I see the potential for life, people, countries, governments to be better. At the same time, I’m realistic. I see the problems that exist and know the obstacles are there but at the same time I am determined to work toward opening peoples’ minds and offering new creative ways of seeing, understanding and working toward solutions.