Books by Meg Gardiner and Complete Book Reviews
Michael Mann and Meg Gardiner. Morrow/Michael Mann, $28.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-06-265331-4
Emmy-winning director, screenwriter, and producer Mann has coauthored his first crime novel with Edgar winner Gardiner (The Dark Corners of the Night), which falls short as a sequel to Mann’s 1995 movie, Heat. Heat focused on a battle of wits...
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Meg Gardiner, Author . Dutton $24.95 (355p) ISBN 978-0-525-95066-0
An intelligent and stubborn heroine who’s just emotionally vulnerable enough to be empathetic lifts this novel from Gardiner (China Lake
), a Californian now living in London making her U.S. debut. Dr. Jo Beckett, a forensic psychiatrist (or
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Meg Gardiner, Author . Obsidian $7.99 (402p) ISBN 978-0-451-22455-2
Meg Gardiner's Evan Delaney series, until recently only available in the U.K. (where the American Gardiner lives with her family), is coming to U.S. readers this summer.
China Lake
Meg Gardiner
. Obsidian
, $7.99 (416p) ISBN 978-0-451-22455-2
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Meg Gardiner, Author . Dutton $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-95075-2
Near the start of Edgar-finalist Gardiner's solid follow-up to The Dirty Secrets Club
, San Francisco forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett examines Ian Kanan, a distressed airline passenger who turns out to be suffering from anterograde amnesia,...
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Meg Gardiner, Author Dutton $25.95 (353p) ISBN 978-0-525-95172-8
Jo Beckett investigates a national security threat in Edgar-winner Gardiner’s absorbing third thriller to feature the San Francisco forensic psychiatrist (after The Memory Collector
). When troubled country singer Tasia McFarland—who...
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Meg Gardiner, Author Hodder & Stoughton $7.99 (438p) ISBN 978-0-340-82940-0
Evan Delaney is a bit apprehensive about attending her 15-year high school reunion on the Navy base at China Lake, Calif., and with good reason: an alarming number of her classmates have died, in seemingly unrelated ways-""Car crash. ... Pneumonia. .
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Meg Gardiner. Dutton, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-95221-3
Bringing her two series leads together for the first time, Gardiner pits forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett (The Dirty Secrets Club) and reporter Evan Delaney (Kill Chain) against a kidnapping team that's out for something more than ransom in this...
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Meg Gardiner. Dutton, $25.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-95285-5
Near the start of this solid stand-alone thriller from Edgar-winner Gardiner (The Nightmare Thief), Aurora “Rory” Mackenzie, an attorney who was working for Asylum Action, which monitored “refugees seeking political asylum” until it lost its funding,
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Meg Gardiner. Dutton, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-95322-7
Edgar-winner Gardiner’s second stand-alone (after Ransom River) boasts another of the strong female characters she’s known for and enough pulse-pounding action to satisfy the most avid thriller fan. Sarah Keller swore to her dying sister, Bethany,...
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Meg Gardiner. Dutton, $26.95 (368p) ISBN 978-0-525-95431-6
Fans of tough-to-kill heroines and thrillers in the Dirty Harry tradition will best appreciate this standalone from Edgar-winner Gardiner (The Shadow Tracer). Harper Flynn, who’s trying to bury her sordid past, is lucky to survive the attack on...
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Meg Gardiner. Dutton, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-101-98552-6
Near the start of this outstanding series launch from Edgar-winner Gardiner (Phantom Instinct), Caitlin Hendrix, a detective with San Francisco’s Narcotics Task Force, visits a crime scene in an Alameda County cornfield—a brutal double murder. The...
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Meg Gardiner. Dutton, $26 (384p) ISBN 978-1-101-98555-7
Inspired by the Ted Bundy case, Edgar-winner Gardiner’s excellent sequel to 2017’s Unsub finds newly minted FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix still feeling her way on the FBI’s elite Behavioral Analysis Unit and working on a long-distance relationship. Her...
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Meg Gardiner. Blackstone, $26.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-982627-51-5
Edgar-winner Gardiner stumbles in her derivative third thriller starring FBI agent Caitlin Hendrix (after 2018’s Into the Black Nowhere). In Los Angeles, someone is targeting couples with children in their homes, fatally shooting the adults while...
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Meg Gardiner, Author, Susan Ericksen, Read by , read by Susan Ericksen. Brilliance Audio $36.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-6152-7
SFPD forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett is smart, dogged and filled with guilt for failing to save her husband's life after a helicopter crash. One thing she isn't is constantly angry, but which nonetheless is the mood reader Susan Ericksen...
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Meg Gardiner, read by Hillary Huber. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-1-5247-2279-1
Narrator Huber provides plenty of chills as she maneuvers her way through the twists and turns this dark thriller. In the 1990s, a serial killer known as the Prophet terrorized the citizens of San Francisco. Twenty years later, new deaths begin to...
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Meg Gardiner, read by Hillary Huber. Penguin Audio, , unabridged, 10 CDs, 12 hrs., $45 ISBN 978-1-5247-2283-8
This unnerving second installment to Gardiner’s Unsub series, read with steely determination by Huber, focuses on Caitlin Hendrix, a fledgling agent assigned to the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit hunting for a predator who has been killing young...
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