Showing posts with label Lisa Gardner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lisa Gardner. Show all posts

Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Say Goodbye by Lisa Gardner

What the cover says:
Young women are disappearing... girls no one will notice are gone: prostitutes, runaways, high-risk teens. One night they exist, next morning they've vanished.
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The only lead - a man who gets his kicks in the creepiest of ways: a twisted sadist with a brutal past. Kimberly Quincy, FBI Special Agent, knows she mustn't get caught in his web, but as the trail leads her closer, it seems she must become the prey if anyone else is to survive.


Warning - not for arachnophobes!!
I've now read a few of Lisa Gardner's books, and usually thoroughly enjoy them. This one is not quite as good as some of her others, but is still an enjoyable read. There are a couple of negatives - the bits from the killer's point of view are sometimes confusing as it's difficult to know when they're talking about the past or the present, and there is a little too much about the heroines relationship with her husband than I felt strictly necessary but there's enough there to keep those pages turning right to the end.

7/10

Monday, 16 February 2009

The Survivors Club by Lisa Gardner

What the cover says:
The Survivors Club... that's what Jillian, Carol and Meg call it. They don't consider themselves to be victims. They are survivors who faced the blazing headlines and helped lead the investigation that caught Eddie Como, the man who changed their lives forever.
But now Eddie Como, the College Hill Rapist, has been murdered, shot down outside the courtroom moments before his trial was to begin. Jillian, Carol and Meg are openly ecstatic - but they are also the prime suspects in his murder.
Detective Roan Griffin has never had a case quite like this one. Could three ordinary women have been driven to do the unthinkable? Has someone in the Survivors Club become a killer? And then another woman is brutally attacked...


This is an excellent read, full of more twists and turns than you can shake a stick at. It does become ever so slightly slow and laboured in places, but that is easily forgiveable with such a clever idea.

8/10