Published February 9th 2016 by DuttonRead: February 2016
How I Got It: Ebook (approximately 416 pages) from NetGalley
Series: Detective D.D. Warren Series ( # 8)
Flora Dane was kidnapped and forced to live in a pine box.
It has been five years since her terrifying final days with her kidnapper, and
she is not adjusting well to the life of a survivor. When she hears about the recent
abduction of Stacey Summers, she cannot help but turn into a vigilante. This is
where her path crosses with Detective D.D. Warren. Just as Flora’s having
trouble adjusting, D.D., on restricted duty due to a shoulder injury, doesn’t like
being chained to a desk either. Both women take their own paths to find Stacey,
but both also have a lot to learn if they are to find her alive.
Lisa Gardner writes an intriguing mystery that hooks the reader
from the very first sentence. Not only is the story a genius concoction of past
and present crimes, it is a story that makes the reader feel. Annoyance, fear,
and disgust are just a few of the emotions the reader will inhabit while switching
between the perspectives of Flora (both past and present) and the detective.
Gardner’s writing devices, the perspective switch as well as her repetition of
phrases (“nobody wants to be a monster”) work well to add suspense. Readers who
love mystery will speed through the pages of D.D. Warren’s latest case.
Although this is the eighth novel of Garner’s Detective D.D. Warren series, it
works as a standalone, and readers should not shy away from entering D.D.’s
world now.
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