True confession time: I was happy to receive The Left-Handed Twin, Thomas Perry’s latest effort in the Jane Whitefield series (thanks to Mysterious Press and NetGalley) in exchange for my honest review, and even happier to give it to my husband to read first. Like Jane, he was raised in Western New York State and has many amazing skills…and is my go-to reader for all the Thomas Perry books.

One of Jane’s greatest skills is her ability to help people disappear, assisting her clients in assuming new identities and beginning new lives to escape horrific situations. A new client comes to her from LA, where she watched her boyfriend killed someone. She testified against him, but when a bribed jury acquitted him, she ran away to avoid being his next victim . 

Jane agrees to help her, and together they go up against some members of Russian organized crime. The chase is on, and takes them throughout the Northeast, finally ending up in Maine’s Hundred Mile Wilderness. It’s another solid entry in this series, and once again Thomas Perry delivers an entertaining novel, reliably action-packed and suspenseful. Four and a half stars, rounded down to four, but could as easily have been rounded up!