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 Until You Finish This Mystery
Summary: 5 Stars
When Tanya Nelson was 7 years old her father told her, " `The world is a system. . . . If you can understand the system, you will survive.' " And she had survived. She had survived countless moves to new cities, each time with a new name. She had survived her mother's alcoholism and suicide and her father's sudden death when he was hit by car. She had survived never knowing what it was she and her family were running from. And now, it seemed, she had survived her own murder.
On the grounds of the abandoned Boston State Mental Hospital six bodies of six young girls are found in six separate clear plastic bags in an underground pit. On one bag is a small silver locket engraved with the name "Annabelle M. Granger." This is the only clue State Homicide Detective Bobby Dodge and Boston Police Sergeant D. D. Warren have to start their investigation. Bobby recognizes the underground pit as strikingly similar to the pit where twelve-year-old Catherine Gagnon had been imprisoned for almost a month in 1980 by Richard Umbrio, now two-years deceased, having been shot by Catherine Gagnon when he attacked her after his release from prison. The question is: Who killed Annabelle Granger and the other five girls and how do their deaths relate to Catherine Gagnon--and who is Tanya Nelson?
Lisa Garner's "Hide" is a truly riveting mystery-thriller that will keep you turning the pages until the very end. The plot is fascinating and complex; the characters are worth knowing; and the pieces do all fit together in the end. This is not a book you want to pick up when you have places to go and people to meet because, I guarantee you, you will want to "Hide until the very last word.
Book Review: Hide by Lisa Gardner
Summary: 5 Stars
Boston Detective D.D. Warren is taken back to a crime that left the city terrorized eleven years ago when the bodies of six children are found in a mental hospital that is no longer in use. She brings in her ex-lover, State Investigator Bobby Dodge, because she knows he'll see the similarities too. However, even though she sees similarities there are things that are different as well.
The clues lead them to a young woman who has been on the run from a stalker and to buried secrets that someone will do anything, including kill to keep in the ground, however it's D.D.'s job to uncover them. This is typical Lisa Gardner, suspense to the max and an ending that you won't see coming.
Book Review: Hide-ous
Summary: 1 Stars
Nowadays it's easy to write a New York Times Bestseller. All you have to do is follow the recipe below:
One homicidal pedophile who rapes and murders children in a particularly gruesome, but interesting manner (make sure you describe all the lurid details)
One handsome young cop who is in disgrace after having committed a violent, yet somehow justifiable, transgression of his authority
One beautiful witness with a mysterious past. (It helps if you can find one who can kickbox, but who will conveniently forget her martial arts training in order to collapse weeping against the "hard, muscled" chest of the disgraced cop.)
A dash of "retching" and/or "pervasive feeling of evil"
Roughly 2 pounds of bad writing (Half if you are preparing a paperback) Feel free to add plenty of "bada bing, bada booms," "handy dandy tasers," and "tighty whities." As my mother always says, you can't have too many cliches in a New York Times Bestseller.
Combine the above ingredients and beat vigorously until the mixture loses all coherence. At the very last minute make sure to pull a "surprise" ending out of your left ear. Or, to avoid the several hours of tedium required to make your own New York Times Bestseller, you can purchase a ready-made copy of Hide at your convenience. I guarantee it will prove equally as tasteless.
Book Review: It has you from hello
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a great suspense, love, murder mystery. It is so suspensful and has you from the first page. Worth your time! Would love to see this made into a movie.Book Review: Just Okay
Summary: 3 Stars
I am a sporadic reader, so please keep this in mind as you read my review. This book kept my attention & interest, until it neared the end. It became annoyingly predictable, as though the writer was spent & looked for the easy way out, so she could begin her next book.