Books by Lisa Gardner and Complete Book Reviews

Edited by David Baldacci. Simon & Schuster, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4767-6206-7
A clever concept distinguishes this anthology sponsored by the International Thriller Writers. Each of the 11 stories pairs well-known series characters created by different authors, sometimes in adversarial but more often in collegial ways, and...
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Lisa Gardner, Author . Bantam $23.95 (358p) ISBN 978-0-553-80251-1
One cannot read this excellent new novel by bestselling author Gardner (The Next Accident) without wondering what actors might play these characters, especially the detectives. (Russell Crowe in his Bud White mode should star as Roan Griffin, and...
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Lisa Gardner. Dutton, $26.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95307-4
This no-holds-barred stand-alone from Thriller Award–winner Gardner opens with the brutally efficient kidnapping of the Denbe family—father Justin, wife Libby, and 15-year-old daughter Ashlyn—from their exclusive Back Bay townhouse. Law enforcement...
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Lisa Gardner. Dutton, $27.95 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95308-1
Four-year-old Shana and her nearly one-year-old sister, Adeline, take two very different life paths after the death of their father, serial killer Harry Day, in Thriller Award–winner Gardner’s absorbing seventh novel featuring Boston homicide...
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Lisa Gardner. Dutton, $27.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-95456-9
Nothing is what it seems in this expertly crafted standalone from Thriller Award–winner Gardner. After a luxury car is discovered at the bottom of a ravine in rural New Hampshire, along with its confused and injured driver, Nicole Frank, Sgt. Wyatt...
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Lisa Gardner. Dutton, $26.95 (416p) ISBN 978-0-525-95457-6
Florence “Flora” Dane, the victim and survivor at the center of bestseller Gardner’s compelling eighth novel featuring Boston Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren (after 2014’s Fear Nothing), has a flat affect and a burning compulsion to meet sexual predators five
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Lisa Gardner. Dutton, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-525-95458-3
Bestseller Gardner’s edge-of-your-seat thriller brings back law-enforcement couple Pierce Quincy and Rainie Conner, last seen in 2008’s Say Goodbye. Quincy, a retired FBI agent, and Conner, an investigative consultant for the Bakersville County (Ore.
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Lisa Gardner. Dutton, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4205-8
In Thriller Award–winner Gardner’s exciting ninth novel featuring Boston Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren (after 2016’s Find Her), four members of a family of five have been gunned down in their home, and the only survivor, 16-year-old Roxanna Baez, a former...
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Lisa Gardner, Author . Bantam $23.95 (336p) ISBN 978-0-553-80252-8
A cold case grows hot again in Gardner's sixth high-octane page-turner, a romantic thriller that features rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy. Kimberly is the daughter of Pierce Quincy, former FBI profiler turned PI, last seen in The Next Accident.
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Lisa Gardner, Author . Bantam $24 (324p) ISBN 978-0-553-80253-5
For 300-some pages, Gardner (The Perfect Husband ) keeps readers spellbound—not just by her plot but by the beautifully realized character of Massachusetts police sniper Bobby Dodge. He meets his match in Catherine Gagnon, who as a girl was...
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Lisa Gardner, Author . Bantam $25 (342p) ISBN 978-0-553-80431-7
A terrifying woman-in-jeopardy plot propels Gardner's latest thriller, in which child advocate and PI Lorraine "Rainie" Conner's fate hangs in the balance. Rainie, a recovering alcoholic with a painful past (who previously appeared...
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Lisa Gardner, Author . Bantam $25 (375p) ISBN 978-0-553-80432-4
In bestseller Gardner's first-rate follow-up to Alone (2005), Bobby Dodge, once a sniper for the Massachusetts State Police and now a police detective, gets called to a horrific crime scene in the middle of the night by fellow detective and ex-l
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Lisa Gardner, Author . Bantam $25 (360p) ISBN 978-0-553-80433-1
In bestseller Gardner’s engaging if highly disturbing 10th thriller, Delilah Rose is a Georgia prostitute familiar with pregnant FBI Special Agent Kimberly Quincy (“beautiful, brainy, and pedigreed”) through Kimberly’s well-pu
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Lisa Gardner, Author . Bantam $25 (373p) ISBN 978-0-553-80723-3
In bestseller Gardner's gripping 11th thriller, Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren, last seen in 2007's Hide , looks into the curious disappearance of Sandra Jones, a sixth-grade social studies teacher, from her South Boston home: Sandra's keys and purse were on
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Lisa Gardner. Dutton, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-95276-3
The well-wrought suspense offsets the shaky plot of bestseller Gardner’s sixth novel featuring Boston Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren (after 2011’s Love You More). Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant, a 28-year-old police dispatch officer with a horrific childhood,
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Lisa Gardner, Bantam, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-553-80724-0
At the heart of Gardner's outstanding fourth novel featuring Boston PD detective Warren (after The Neighbor) are some very sick kids, notably Lucy, a nine-year-old feral girl who self-mutilates when any attention is given to her, and Evan, an eight-y
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Lisa Gardner, Bantam, $26 (368p) ISBN 978-0-553-80725-7
Near the start of Thriller Award–winner Gardner's gripping fifth novel featuring Boston PD Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren (after Live to Tell), D.D.'s former partner and one-time lover, Det. Bobby Dodge, of the Massachusetts State Police, asks her to look...
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Lisa Gardner, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-553-57679-5
In her newest, Gardner (The Perfect Husband) indulges her fascination with the dark side of family life, where the ties that bind also gag, choke and strangle. Professional event planner Melanie Stokes does not suspect that the death of a serial...
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Lisa Gardner, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-57680-1
Lisa Baumgartner makes her debut as a writer of romantic suspense under the name of Lisa Gardner with this sexy and smooth-talking first. The villain, Jim Beckett, cuts off the fingers of his victims with a dull Swiss Army knife--before he bats...
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Lisa Gardner, Author Bantam Books $7.99 (400p) ISBN 978-0-553-57868-3
In her new thriller (following The Other Daughter), Gardner deftly probes the psychology of school shootings while developing a cast of complex, compelling characters. Rainie Conner initially joined the small-town police force in Bakersville, Ore.,
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Lisa Gardner, read by Luke Daniels and Teri Schnaubelt. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, 11 CDs, 12.5 hrs., $38.99 ISBN 978-1-4805-9872-0
Gardner’s partners in crime fighting and in life—retired FBI profilers Pierce Quincy and Rainie Conner—return in fine fashion, helping the sheriff’s department in Bakersville, Ore., zero in on a suspected rampage killer on the run. Complicating...
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Lisa Gardner, read by Kirsten Potter and Katie MacNichol. Random House Audio, unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $40 ISBN 978-0-7393-6670-7
When a Massachusetts State Police trooper shoots and kills her husband, Boston Homicide Det. D.D. Warren sets about figuring out what parts of the trooper's story are true, and, most urgently, where the trooper's missing six-year-old daughter might...
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Lisa Gardner, Author, Kirsten Kairos, Read by , read by Kristen Kairos. Random House Audio $29.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-2152-2
Former FBI profiler Pierce Quincy's marriage is on the rocks, but things go from bad to worse when his wife, Rainie, goes missing. A kidnapper soon contacts Quincy with a somewhat unusual ransom demand, leaving Quincy and the investigation team...
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Lisa Gardner, Author, Maggie-Meg Reed, Read by , read by Maggi-Meg Reed. Random House Audio $39.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-7393-2154-6
Reed will find lots of work in the audio whodunit world. She has a low, slightly gravelly voice that fits the genre well. She distinguishes characters without trying to be them and helps a wacky protagonist become a believable character. The...
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Lisa Gardner. Dutton, $27 (416p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4208-9
In Thriller Award winner Gardner’s nail-biting ninth novel featuring Boston PD Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren (after 2017’s Look For Me), police break into the home of pregnant math teacher Evelyn Carter, who’s standing over her husband Conrad’s dead body...
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Lisa Gardner. Dutton, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-1-524-74500-4
At the start of this gritty, character-driven standalone from bestseller Gardner (Never Tell), a hiker stumbles across a human femur in the mountains of Niche, Ga. As soon as the remains are identified as those of 17-year-old Lilah Abenito,...
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Lisa Gardner. Dutton, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5247-4504-2
Recovering alcoholic Frankie Elkin, the narrator of this outstanding crime novel from bestseller Gardner (When You See Me), has found purpose, if not peace, in channeling her addictive personality into finding missing women no one else bothers to...
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Lisa Gardner. Dutton, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-593-18541-4
Bestseller Gardner’s gripping sequel to 2021’s Before She Disappeared takes missing person cold case investigator Frankie Elkin, who describes herself as an “average, middle-aged white woman, short on belongings, long on regret,” to Wyoming’s...
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Lisa Gardner. Grand Central, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-5387-6506-7
Bestseller Gardner’s far-fetched third outing for Frankie Elkin (after A Step Too Far) sees the amateur investigator and recovering alcoholic tracking down the sister of a notorious death row inmate. Frankie, who’s made an “unusual hobby” of...
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