Poison Flower
A Jane Whitefield Novel

I've long been a huge fan of Thomas Perry's Jane Whitefield series. Jane is a contemporary Seneca Indian woman who lives in upstate New York. She's a "guide" who helps endangered people escape their current lives and settle into new ones. She often does this at great risk to herself since the villai......more

Another pretty good addition to the series, but Perry wanted to end the series a while back & probably should have. This one takes too many things a bit too far. Her initial motivation was weak & didn't fit the character he's drawn so well. I got past that & was swept up in the logical action for th......more

Because I spent last weekend (March 8-10) at the Tucson Festival of Books, I thought it appropriate to make a recommendation for a book from an author in attendance. So I am going with Thomas Perry, who writes thrillers. Maybe his best known book is The Butcher's Boy, published in 1983. It won an Ed......more

I have read all 7 books in this series, and have mixed feelings about them. There is a lot to like about the premise and the protagonist, Jane Whitefield. She is intelligent and courageous and honorable, and the stories have a lot of action. But Thomas Perry makes her do some outlandishly foolish th......more

I have read and enjoyed most of the previous books in this series; this is the seventh Jane Whitefield novel. I thought this one was a pretty good read although it was definitely on the more violent side. Jane is a Native-American Seneca guide who leads people to a new life when they deserve a secon......more