Hide: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel by Lisa Gardner Summary and Reviews
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Book Reviews of Hide: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel
Book Review: "Hide" xcouldn't put the book down.
Summary: 4 Stars
Found this book to be very exciting...one of the best books I have read in a long time. Barb TBook Review: Another Crowd Pleaser!
Summary: 4 Stars
Alright, I've said it before, not much else to add. Lisa Gardner is a top notch writer.
Entertaining! Entertaining! Entertaining!
Book Review: Another good work by Lisa Gardner
Summary: 4 Stars
Yes, I enjoyed this book. It seemed to start a little slow but it did pick up and had many interesting characters. I saw the review from BOOKLIST that said something like: Head and shoulders above anything else she has written and this is Lisa Gardner at the height of her powers. That is not word for word, but pretty close. That also is not right. Lisa Gardner has written a lot of very good thrillers and I count her as one of my favorite authors. I look forward to her next book whenever it is coming out. Part of this book was written in third person and some in first person from the point of view of Annabelle, the main heroine. As a child she is moved with her family repeatedly and during the course of the story we get the idea why and then that turns out to be not what it seems to be. Was it all her father's imagination? sigh... Anyway, D.D. and Bobby are the two main detectives on the case after an undergorund chamber is discovered containing six bodies is found. D.D. is the lead detective on the case and she calls in Bobby from the State Police to help out. I guess she calls him in just because they once had a thing for each other. Yes, the Catherine connection is there, but that seemed a little weak to me. The whole Catherine Cagnon thing just seemed like a way to make the story longer. When we got to the final resolution it seemed like half of Boston was populated by nuts who should have still been locked up in the mental ward. I don't see the necessity to comment on that statement. The climax to the story gives us multiple psychopaths who have assumed new identities. D.D. is correct when she calls something that was overlooked a 'rookie' mistake. Shoot, even I wouldn't have made that mistake. Anyway, this is a good read that keeps the reader interested. Lisa Gardner keeps the action moving and never lets the plot slow down while the main characters get too bogged down in their personal demons (something that really bugs me in a lot of novels.) Yes, all of the main characters have issues from the past to deal with, but they don't spend half the book crying about them. 'HIDE' is an easy book to recommend but to say that this is Gardner's best work ever is setting the bar a little high. I say, go ahead and buy it. One of the better efforts by one of the more dependable authors around.Book Review: Better than the first!
Summary: 5 Stars
I don't actually like the character of D.D. Warren as it seems many other readers do, she's uptight and annoying. She also strikes me as insecure - not "hard ass." I prefer Dodge. I like how he bucks the system and performs his job in the gray area. I like how he takes calculated risks. Risks that are not devoid of plausibility. I only recently stumbled upon Lisa Gardner as an author, and I have to say, while Warren irks me, Dodge provides a balance and maintains my interest.
I think Hide trumped Alone (although don't get me wrong I like Alone too), I couldn't read Hide fast enough, it was all I could do NOT to turn to the end. Hide did not just draw me in, it yanked me in. I couldn't put it down. Every spare minute I was on my Kindle, even while cooking dinner, waiting in line at Target. The amount of detail provided is SPOT ON. Enough to give you a perfect visual, but doesn't drown you in unnecessary/irrelevant details.
The best part - this novel is NOT predictable. Just when I thought I had it figured out, I was wrong, then when I thought I had it figured out again...again I was wrong. I like that. There were plenty of unexpected twists, that I personally found genuinely jaw-dropping. The end never disappoints, other than the fact that its over. I look forward to reading others. They are quick reads, fast and entertaining.
I am an avid reader and am thrilled to have found Ms. Gardner.
Book Review: Call me.......?
Summary: 5 Stars
Former police sniper Bobby Dodge decided after the traumatic events of ALONE that his career needed to take a new direction. He decided to finally take the detective exam and leave the split second decisions that his previous assignment had required to some one else. On his first assignment as a detective he was called in to assist on a case headed by none other than D. D. Warren, a friend and former lover. An underground chamber had been found on the site of a closed mental health facility, a chamber filled with the bagged remains of six young women, a chamber with disturbing similarities to the one used by the psychopath that had figured in ALONE. Was this some of his work? Too bad he could not be questioned about the crimes. The best clue they had was a locket engraved with the name on one of the victims. Too bad the owner of the locket appeared in police headquarters to announce that she was very much still alive. She told Bobby and D. D. a story though that added confusion to the case. When she was a young girl mysterious packages arrived for her, left by an unknown stalked. Her parents decided that in order to protect her they needed to run away, and so from the time she had been seven every few months she had a new identity in a new town, always hiding from some unknown danger. Finally as an adult she had gone home to Boston, thinking that after all these years there could not possibly be any more danger. Bobby and D. D. did not know what danger the parents had feared, or if it had passed. What they did know was that the young woman bore a striking resemblance to Catherine, the woman who had nearly destroyed Bobby's career.
This is an intriguing story, an exciting thriller that will keep the reader turning pages far into the night to see what will happen next. There is a strong tie in to the previous book, ALONE, as so while it is possible to read and enjoy this novel with out reading the earlier story in order to fully appreciate this novel read the two books in order.