Suspense Squared!
O.M.G. This is an amazing, tangled web of deceit, family secrets and lies. I loved it!
This tale has all the great trademarks we've come to expect from Ms. Gardner: Terrific plotting and structure, shocking revelations, head-spinning chapter endings, thrilling action, "real" characters,
and dynamic storytelling.
Jason Jones comes home one night to discover his young wife, Sandra, missing. Their four-year-old daughter, Ree, asleep safe and sound in her own bed. He waits three hours before calling 911.
He becomes a suspect. The husband always does.
The neighbor down the street, a registered sex offender, quickly comes under scrutiny also.
The suspect list will grow.
Detective Sergeant D.D. Warren is on the case. After some hours pass, she begins to believe that Sandra is dead. With so many angles to be explored, D.D. and her partner, Det, Miller, have their work cut out for them. Their going to get to the bottom of this mess.
And a mess it becomes. D.D. will have to sort through sordid family histories, false identities, multiple motives, deception, forensic computer analyses and much more.
D.D. Warren is a bulldog. She's good at her job. She's a badass.
Lisa Gardner is a master at building suspense and this is another gripping thriller in her canon of compulsively readable works!
The last 50 pages are a mind-boggling series of twists and revelations that'll leave you breathless.
The ending will knock you out, but you will go down smiling!
