Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Naked Eye: A Novel
    The Naked Eye: A Novel
    The Naked Eye: A Novel
    Audiobook10 hours

    The Naked Eye: A Novel

    Written by Iris Johansen and Roy Johansen

    Narrated by Elisabeth Rodgers

    4.5/5

    ()

    About this audiobook

    The #1 New York Times bestselling author and the Edgar Award-winning author are back with a new novel featuring Kendra Michaels—hired gun for both the CIA and FBI.

    It’s been four months since the events of Sight Unseen, and Kendra Michaels is obsessed with trying to track down serial killer Eric Colby. Despite his apparent execution at San Quentin, Kendra is convinced that Colby is still alive. The trouble is, she can’t prove it. Even her razor-sharp powers of observation, honed while blind during the first twenty years of her life, have gotten her nowhere. So no one believes her.

    Then out of the blue she gets a call from the Sheriff of Olancha, California, about a young woman being held on a drunk and disorderly charge who lists Kendra as her emergency contact. It’s Eve Duncan’s sister, Beth Avery, who after being wrongfully institutionalized for five years has been living on the road and trying to figure out her life. Kendra can identify, having gone through a similar period of self-discovery after gaining her sight, and she takes Beth home to San Diego with her.

    But the murder of a police detective who had once very openly crossed swords with Kendra is about to complicate her life even further. She visits the crime scene in search of anything that might provide a link to Colby and instead finds evidence that links the crime to her. Finally Colby’s master plan becomes clear: he is framing Kendra for a brutal cop-killing.

    Suspicions mount along with the body count, and Kendra is thrust into spine-tingling pursuit to clear her name and find the killer no one believes exists anymore. Beth joins her on her quest, and agent-for-hire Adam Lynch soon follows. And they get help from another friend anxious to repay her debt to Kendra…none other than Eve Duncan herself.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 14, 2015
    ISBN9781480526372
    The Naked Eye: A Novel
    Author

    Iris Johansen

    Iris Johansen is the author of over twenty novels - including Final Target, Body of Lies, No One to Trust, Dead Aim and Fatal Tide - and consistently hits the top end of the bestseller lists in America. She lives in Georgia, USA, where she is at work on a new novel.

    More audiobooks from Iris Johansen

    Related to The Naked Eye

    Related audiobooks

    Thrillers For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      Pleasure Palace

      Sep 1, 2022

      Pleasure Palace
      15 min read

    • Article

      Performance

      Nov 10, 2022

      “Wait here,” the guard said as he shut the door behind him, leaving me by myself. The floor inside the lab was polished, and the air smelled of disinfectant, and yet the room felt unclean. Leaves shook on a tree outside the window, making shadows on

      18 min read

    • Article

      Chost Stories

      Apr 12, 2021

      Chost Stories
      8 min read

    • Article

      GhoST StoRies

      Apr 12, 2021

      GhoST StoRies
      8 min read

    • Article

      Dialogue With The Devil

      Apr 10, 2023

      Dialogue With The Devil
      11 min read

    • Article

      Dialogue With The Devil

      Apr 10, 2023

      Dialogue With The Devil
      11 min read

    • Article

      The Convict

      Jul 10, 2020

      The Convict
      5 min read

    • Article

      Shaken, Not Stirred

      Dec 19, 2023

      Ava Glass, 50 Clambering down the hill, I tried not to trip as my kitten heels got wedged in the mud. Detectives crowded beside the river bank where a bloated body was being pulled out, arms jutting out as though waiting for a hug. River weeds hung f

      3 min read

    • Article

      Dead Reckoning

      Sep 9, 2020

      Dead Reckoning
      6 min read

    • Article

      They Got Their Show

      Aug 10, 2021

      It is midnight in Ponderosa and Nick Velasquez can’t sleep. The public doesn’t want him to sleep. It’s been like this ever since it hit all the big streaming platforms. The viewers stay up bingeing and he… well, he has been bingeing in his own way. W

      14 min read

    • Article

      Great Scot

      Oct 22, 2021

      Great Scot
      10 min read

    • Article

      Billy Connolly: ‘It Might Be Lovely On The Other Side’

      Oct 17, 2021

      A fostered-off schoolboy going nowhere fast, turned apprentice welder on the Clyde. A welder turned regionally popular musician. A musician turned nationally popular comic. A comic turned Hollywood actor and an actor turned New York artist, then a re

      10 min read

    • Article

      The Silhouette Artist

      Jul 25, 2019

      The Silhouette Artist
      6 min read

    • Article

      HOUSE OF horror

      Jan 21, 2020

      HOUSE OF horror
      4 min read

    • Article

      Six Million Reasons

      Jul 9, 2021

      Six Million Reasons
      6 min read

    • Article

      Take a Writer Like Him: My Complicated Love Affair with Kingsley Amis

      Aug 24, 2018

      1. As much as I may rack my brain, there are 15 minutes or so in the dark that I can’t account for and that I’ll never get back—15 minutes during which, I have to think, that creep’s hands were touching my body. It’s a weird thing to think about all

      12 min read

    • Article

      Dampening

      May 10, 2022

      When I first met Inspector Daria Hunt, I wanted to kill her. Not there and then; I wanted to take as long as possible over it, maximizing the pain whilst leaving her with no hope of survival. Images of horrific injuries leapt into my mind, a catalog

      16 min read

    • Article

      It’s Surprisingly Tough to Avoid Snitching in Prison

      Jul 20, 2018

      “Snitches get stitches.” It’s principle number one of the Convict Code, the fabled law of honor among thieves. When I first entered the system, I figured avoiding snitching would be easy. How hard could it be not to betray your friends? One day a b

      5 min read

    • Article

      Carol Morley

      Sep 14, 2023

      Carol Morley
      5 min read

    • Article

      Echo

      Jan 10, 2024

      Once, during a depressive episode, Stanley cut out thirteen small paper stars and taped them to the ceiling of his cluttered bedroom. They were made from the construction paper left over from his youth, stored away in a basket on a shelf in the basem

      14 min read

    • Article

      Murder mystery

      Jan 26, 2023

      Murder mystery
      4 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Naked Eye

    4.5/5

    59 ratings7 reviews

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 4/5
      This one kept me on the edge of my seat and I didn’t want to put it down. Kendra Michaels is the only person who thinks convicted serial killer Eric Colby is not dead, even after his execution. She has a hard to time convincing others until Eric starts a cat and mouse game with her by framing her for murder. With the help of her friend Beth and some others, she tries to get him before he gets her. This is the third novel in this series and I have to go out and read the first two! Iris Johansen has yet to fail this reader.
    • 5/5
      I really enjoyed this Kendra Michaels story. This is the third in the series and I think the best so far. The story picks up after the execution of Eric Colby, the serial killer in the previous novel. Kendra insists he is alive and she is being ridiculed in the press because of this insistence. No one believes her.

      Eve Duncan's newly found sister, Beth, makes a comeback in this story and plays an integral role as well as computer geek Sam. FBI special agent, Griffin, who does not believe Kendra about Colby is brought into the story when a reporter is killed and trophies from Colby's murders are left at the scene. When Kendra is contacted via her computer by Colby she panics and brings in Sam. Of course Lynch is also around to help out. With this eclectic group of friends, the police and the FBI a hunt for Colby begins. There is a race for the clock when he kidnaps a police detective and eventually kills him. When he grabs Beth, Eve Duncan makes an appearance in the story. With all these people pulling for Kendra, how can she not catch up with Colby again. Lots of twists and turns, suspense and surprises. I will definitely look for the next in this series.

    • 5/5
      A great thriller, with characters that come to life, could become a unbelievable Hollywood movie plot if it hasn't already been made. It begins when a serial killer is being executed by legal injection by the state of California, but the convicted killer "Eric Colby" somehow fakes his death during this procedure and escapes San Quentin Prison. The main person that's responsible for his conviction "Dr. Kendra Michaels" is now obsessed with capturing him, but this is an adventurous journey that keeps your mind racing across the pages keeping you on the edge of your seat till the final page.
    • 5/5
      Here is what grabbed me about this book. I could never tell if the people that Kendra surrounds herself with while she is solving crimes are in on it with the killer or are they true friends and colleagues? Any one of these folks is portrayed as suspicious. When Kendra hair is found in the shower at a murder scene, how did it get there? For a moment I was thinking that her friend who lives upstairs and is frequently in Kendra's place could have planted it. And the guy who is mister smooth. jet setting around as a consultant to assist with kidnappings, etc. is suspicious also. Is he on the level or is he helping the serial killer? It's a very fast and exciting read.
    • 4/5
      Kendra Michaels is attempting to convince police officials that the serial killer who helped send to his execution has escaped. Frustratingly, Kendra feels that Eric Colby staged his death with the help of the medical doctor in charge of the execution. She can't prove it because soon after the execution, Colby's body was cremated. Not long after, the doctor and his wife were found murdered.This compelling page turner continues as Kendra is asked to consult in a murder case and sees the victim posed in a position in the same manner of Colby's other victims.Then a reporter who humiliated Kendra is found murdered and there is DNA evidence that points to Kendra. It becomes clear that Colby's goal is to set Kendra up.The mother and son authors Iris and Roy Johansen write with clear dialogue and the action moves along in a nonstop manner.Kendra is an admirable character. She was blind at birth and it was only twenty years later that a medical procedure enabled her to see. Perhaps due to that, her other senses are heightened.We follow the killer as he taunts Kendra and plays a deadly game while we await the inevitable confrontation.There are a number of surprises and there are times that the reader wants to shout, "don't go there" or "look in the back seat" but overall, I enjoyed this novel and recommend it.
    • 5/5
      FBI consultant, Kendra Michaels suspects Eric Colby is still alive; that he wasn’t actually executed at San Quentin. Even in her dreams, he’s alive and he’s a demon. She was once blind from birth, but a medical procedure made it possible for her to gain her sight. Now, she has the enhanced capabilities that most blind people inhabit within their other senses, and with her eyesight, she is more than a little observant. She derives at conclusions quicker than Sherlock Holmes. She had been the one to put Colby away before. But, judging by the more recent crime scenes, they are not copy-cat, they’re too perfect. This killer doesn’t leave any clues behind unless he wants you to find it. And now, he’s playing games with Kendra. He killed a reporter that had words with Kendra, and he’s set it up to appear as if Kendra killed her. The authorities begin to suspect her.Kendra gains help in a very unlikely place. Her best friend’s daughter, Beth, was in a bit of trouble. She’s small in stature, but through her martial arts, managed to put down a six-foot bully. Kendra pays her bail and now Beth is insisting on helping Kendra with this case. Against her better judgement, Kendra relents.The plot is extremely well written. There were several secondary characters that I also liked very much. All characters were well-defined and credible. The action is not continuous, but sufficient for this very suspenseful mystery. Kendra as the heroine is just different and unique enough to make the reader want more. It is the third in the Kendra Michaels series, but I had no problem with reading it as a stand-alone. Rating: 4.5 out of 5.
    • 5/5
      Kendra Michaels has developed her powers of observation to the degree that she routinely sees things others never notice, a skill that keeps her in demand with law enforcement agencies. Instrumental in closing the Eric Colby case, she now believes that the serial killer everyone watched being put to death in San Quentin is actually alive . . . but she has no proof. Shortly after she is blindsided by a reporter who publishes an unflattering story about her, the reporter is found murdered, and all the evidence points to Kendra as the killer. Can she prove that Colby is behind the murder before he strikes again . . . before she becomes his next victim?The twists and turns in this newest Kendra Michaels thriller will keep readers page-turning far into the night as Kendra and her friends race to stop the serial killer only she has recognized. Readers will appreciate the good characterizations and swiftly-moving plot; Eve Duncan fans will be delighted with her appearance here.Highly recommended.