Divine Intervention was a hugely pleasant surprise. Cheryl Tardif
has definitely found her genre with this new crime novel set in the
not-so-far future. The story is about Agent Jasmine McLellan, who
works for a highly special branch of the Canadian Federal Bureau of
Investigations. She is a Pyro-Psychic, one who can read crime
scenes involving fires, telling what caused them, and sometimes who
and why. The reader begins the novel as Jasi is coming off downtime
from a huge case, and is abruptly thrown into a new one. Someone in
B.C. has already murdered three people by fire, and the case is
given to the PSI unit of the CFBI to find the killer. It is now up
to Jasi and her colleagues, with the aid of the insufferably
attractive Chief of Arson Investigations Brandon Walsh, to track
down the murderer-before it's too late.
I found Divine Intervention to be extremely hard to walk away
from. I kept wanting to read just one more chapter. With the
believable characters, and scorching plot twists, I was truly sorry
to see the book end. Anyone who is a fan of J.D. Robb will
thoroughly enjoy this one- especially any who have been waiting for
an excellent voice to bring alive a genuinely Canadian crime novel.
I, for one, am now itching to read more about Jasi and the rest of
the PSI team. Divine Intervention will undeniably leave you
smoldering-and dying for more.