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: Keep your child safe
Summary: 5 Stars
This is a psycho suspense/mystery novel. Discovery of human remains in a secret chamber reopens cold cases from 25 years earlier. A pedophile had been kidnapping and killing young girls. Now the cases have become hot as a special police task force works to identify both the victims and the killer. When you turn over stones you don't know what you might find, and people come forward with information that has been hidden for various reasons. Not everyone is who they seem to be, and there are some surprises.
This is a well written story that holds your attention, but perhaps is not for the faint of heart. It deals with adult situation and contains violence, with some language to match the situation, and some sex by reference.
Book Review: Keeps You Guessing
Summary: 5 Stars
Don't even think about reading the last chapter to see "who did it"! It will do you no good whatsoever. I tried it. This book keeps you on your toes -- if nothing else just trying to keep the changing characters straight. Names keep changing as well as settings. So, if you try like I did to cheat and find out the culprit, even after I found out the name of the character -- I didn't know who he was -- I had to read the book in order to find out what part he played in the plot.
This book kept me reading well past bedtime and then I wished I hadn't because I saw shadows that kept me awake. The characters are well-developed as is the plot. I have found a new favorite author.
Book Review: Keeps You Guessing
Summary: 4 Stars
This was the very first book I have read by Lisa Gardner. I like her writing style. Hide was a good book for me to start with. I found the writer did a great job at detailing the characters. Some of the story was narrative while, at other times, it was not. I didn't think it was hard to tell the difference but I have read some reviews that thought it was. The stroy line was suspensful and kept you guessing right up until the end. I liked this writers style so much that I have purchased 4 more books of hers. I would recommend this book highly.Book Review: Lisa Gardner
Summary: 4 Stars
I look forward to reading this book as I loved the author's "Say
Goodbye."
Book Review: Lisa Gardner's string of outstanding novels is continued with this exciting whodunit
Summary: 4 Stars
The characters have depth and the protagonist, Annabelle, as told in the first person makes you feel like you are with her. You feel her confusing and sad childhood. Always on the move. Never having time to make friends. Not knowing why the sudden moves to a new city.
Annabelle, age seven, arrived from school and found her parents in the living room with their bags packed, ready to move - For fifteen years, they lived in many cities with different names - Now an orphan she is back in Boston where it all began - Six mummified bodies of young girls, one with a silver locket with the name Annabelle Granger, are found in an underground lair on the grounds of a century-old lunatic asylum closed years ago - After reading in the newspaper that she was dead she goes to the police station and tells them her name is Annabelle Mary Granger. And then . . .
I subtracted one star for some things that didn't quite ring true; why didn't someone contact MIT before the very end of the book, since Annabelle's father was a math professor there - what about the police getting stuck in traffic and abandoning their car and running over a mile - one of the mis-directions, an attempted murder, was absurd on its face - etc.
Even with these faults, it was a great read and kept my attention. The ending seemed to be a little contrived but there were no loose ends left hanging.
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