Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues by Blaize Clement - 5 stars

Even Cat Sitters Get the Blues (Dixie Hemingway Mystery #3)
by Blaize Clement


Dixie has a knack for being in the wrong place at the wrong time. The day she happens upon the dead body outside a fancy mansion is no different. She’s had her fill of homicide investigations, so she leaves the gate-keeper’s corpse to be found by somebody else. Unfortunately, that somebody else sees Dixie leaving the scene of the crime, and the fatal bullet might have even come from her own gun! To make matters worse, the owner of the mansion is Dixie’s new client—a scientist who is either a genius, insane, or both—whose pet iguana is under her charge. All that, plus a feisty calico kitten that needs some TLC, means that time is running out for Dixie to catnip this case in the bud… and collar the killer.

My Review
This was the third book in this series and a very good mystery. I like this series, they mystery was interesting and kept me guessing until the end. I also like Dixie the main character, she's a pet sitter and throughout the book there are little tidbits and advice for care of pets, like iguanas and kittens. My favorite character in book was Ziggy the iguana I never thought I would like a lizard but after reading this book I can't help but loving them a little. One other thing reading the books in this series always makes me hungry, Dixie is always meeting people at restaurants or having dinner at someone's house or mentioning some fantastic meal her fireman/chef brother Michael is making!

I also love Blaize Clement's description of Florida and the special people that live there, especially the "snowbirds".

Death at Bishop's Keep by Robin Paige - 5 stars

Death at Bishop's Keep (Victorian Mystery #1)
by Robin Paige

Kate Adrleigh is everything the Victorian English gentlewoman is not--outspoken, free-thinking, American...and a writer of the frowned upon "penny-dreadfuls."

Soon after her arrival in Essex, England, a body is unearthed in a nearby archeological dig--and Kate has the chance to not only research her latest story...but to begin her first case with amateur detective Sir Charles Sheridan.

My Review;
This is the first book in this series and I loved it. I love the Victorian atmosphere and the lovely old homes and the characters, oh my gosh, the characters, I loved them. The authors really outdid themselves with the storyline and I am looking forward to reading the other books in this mystery series!

The Ice Cream Girls by Dorothy Koomson - 4 - Stars

The Ice Cream Girls
by Dorothy Koomson

As teenagers Poppy Carlisle and Serena Gorringe were the only witnesses to a tragic event. Amid heated public debate, the two seemingly glamorous teens were dubbed ‘The Ice Cream Girls’ by the press and were dealt with by the courts.

Years later, having led very different lives, Poppy is keen to set the record straight about what really happened, while married mother-of-two Serena wants no one in her present to find out about her past. But some secrets will not stay buried – and if theirs is revealed, everything will become a living hell all over again...

My Review;
This is the first Dorothy Koomson book I have read, I am very impressed with her writing style and I am looking forward to reading other books by this author.

Her characters are very well drawn, they became very real to me, especially Serena, Poppy and Marcus.

The story was so heartbreaking and so real because I could just see why each girl made her decisions and what awful paths the two of them followed when they were both teenagers and how each of them became they women they were at the end of the story.

This is a story of abuse and shame and forgiveness and it will stay with me for a very long time.

The Day I Shot Cupid by Jennifer Love Hewitt - 5 stars

The Day I Shot Cupid: Hello, My Name Is Jennifer Love Hewitt and I'm a Love-aholic

by Jennifer Love Hewitt

2.78  ·  rating details  ·  254 ratings  ·  89 reviews

For any woman who has ever bought a self-help book and wondered why she bothered. (P.S. Now that I know he's just not that into me, where do I go from there? Yeah, thanks for that advice.)
Jennifer Love Hewitt is a self-proclaimed "love-aholic" and hopeless romantic (her middle name is Love, after all!). She has been lucky and unlucky in love, and lived to tell—and she's done it all in the spotlight. Much has been written about her love life—some true, most made up to sell magazines. Now Hewitt shares the real story of what she's learned navigating the dangerous dating waters.
In The Day I Shot Cupid, Hewitt offers her hard-won wisdom and tells us how to embrace love with both feet on the ground. First, we have to shoot Cupid. We have to believe that happily-ever-after is hard work—it's not all flowers and symphonies and floating hearts.
Wise and wry and refreshingly honest, Hewitt talks about how to pick the right guy and how to know when to let the wrong ones go free, and she offers some surprising truths about the opposite sex.
From twenty things to do after a breakup, to ten things to do before a date, to the perils of text flirting (Note: You are waiting. By the phone. For his response.), Hewitt uses stories and dating secrets to illustrate the idiotic, romantic, crazy, depressing, hilarious, awkward, glorious moments we all experience in relationships. Funny, quirky, and empowering, The Day I Shot Cupid deserves a place on every woman's nightstand, bookshelf, or coffee table, or tucked inside her oversized designer handbag.

My Review;
I really enjoyed this book, it's a cute little book with some interesting and amusing insights on relationships written from Jennifer Love Hewitt's point of view. She seems to be a very sweet and genuinely beautiful person. This is a quick read and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

Little Bee by Chris Cleave - 1/2 star

Little Bee

by Chris Cleave (Goodreads Author)

We don't want to tell you what happens in this book.
It is a truly special story and we don't want to spoil it.
nevertheless, you need to know enough to buy it, so we will just say this:

           This is the story of two women. Their lives collide one fateful day, and one of them has to make a terrible choice, the kind of choice we hope you never have to face. Two years later, they meet again - the story starts there ...
           Once you have read it, you'll want to tell your friends about it. When you do, please don't tell them what happens. The magic is in how the story unfolds.

My Review; 
I did not like this book, I really, really didn't like most of the characters. I had to grind my teeth and really force myself to read the chapters written from Sarah's point of view. There were alot of inconsistencies in the plot as well as the lives of the characters. Just really hated it to be honest, so glad I'm done with it and that is, in the words of Forrest Gump "all I want to say about that!" 

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister - Audio Recording - 5 stars

Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

by Gregory Maguire

11 cds unabridged 11.75 hours

Amazon.com Review

Gregory Maguire's chilling, wonderful retelling of Cinderella is a study in contrasts. Love and hate, beauty and ugliness, cruelty and charity--each idea is stripped of its ethical trappings, smashed up against its opposite number, and laid bare for our examination. Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister begins in 17th-century Holland, where the two Fisher sisters and their mother have fled to escape a hostile England. Maguire's characters are at once more human and more fanciful than their fairy-tale originals. Plain but smart Iris and her sister, Ruth, a hulking simpleton, are dazed and terrified as their mother, Margarethe, urges them into the strange Dutch streets. Within days, purposeful Margarethe has secured the family a place in the home of an aspiring painter, where for a short time, they find happiness. But this is Cinderella, after all, and tragedy is inevitable. When a wealthy tulip speculator commissions the painter to capture his blindingly lovely daughter, Clara, on canvas, Margarethe jumps at the chance to better their lot. "Give me room to cast my eel spear, and let follow what may," she crows, and the Fisher family abandons the artist for the upper-crust Van den Meers.
When Van den Meer's wife dies during childbirth, the stage is set for Margarethe to take over the household and for Clara to adopt the role of "Cinderling" in order to survive. What follows is a changeling adventure, and of course a ball, a handsome prince, a lost slipper, and what might even be a fairy godmother. In a single magic night, the exquisite and the ugly swirl around in a heated mix:

Everything about this moment hovers, trembles, all their sweet, unreasonable hopes on view before anything has had the chance to go wrong. A stepsister spins on black and white tiles, in glass slippers and a gold gown, and two stepsisters watch with unrelieved admiration. The light pours in, strengthening in its golden hue as the sun sinks and the evening approaches. Clara is as otherworldly as the Donkeywoman, the Girl-Boy. Extreme beauty is an affliction...

But beyond these familiar elements, Maguire's second novel becomes something else altogether--a morality play, a psychological study, a feminist manifesto, or perhaps a plain explanation of what it is to be human. Villains turn out to be heroes, and heroes disappoint. The story's narrator wryly observes, "In the lives of children, pumpkins can turn into coaches, mice and rats into human beings. When we grow up, we learn that it's far more common for human beings to turn into rats." --Therese Littleton

 My Review;

This was a pretty good retelling of the Cinderella story, I enjoyed the book and narrator was very good. I sometimes got frustrated listening to the story because it seemed to move very slowly at times until it finally got to the point the author was trying to make, but all in all I thought it was a good book, I do think that if I had been reading it instead of listening to it I would have given up on it out of frustration with slowness of the story.

Hawke by Ted Bell - 5 stars

Hawke (Alexander Hawke #1)

by Ted Bell (Goodreads Author)

Lord Alexander Hawke is a direct descendant of the legendary English pirate Blackhawke and highly skilled in the cutthroat's deadly ways himself. While still a boy, on a voyage to the Caribbean, Alex Hawke witnesses an act of unspeakable horror. Hidden in a secret compartment on his father's yacht, Alex sees his parents brutally murdered by three modern-day pirates. It is an event that will haunt him for the remainder of his life. Now, fully grown and one of England's most decorated naval heroes, Hawke is back in the same Caribbean waters on a secret mission for the American government. A highly experimental stealth submarine, built by the Soviets just before the end of the Cold War, is missing. She carries forty nuclear warheads and is believed to be in the hands of a very unstable government just ninety miles from the American mainland. Hawke is in a race against time. His mission: Find the deadly sub before a preemptive strike can be launched against the U.S., and confront the murderous men behind the personal nightmare that haunts him before they find him first.

My Review; 
This was a "manly man" book with a lot of action and guns and explosions and submarines and Cuba and very, very, very, bad guys! I liked it and I will definitely read the next one in this series.

Death at Whitechapel by Robin Paige - 5 stars

Death at Whitechapel (Victorian Mystery #6)

by Robin PaigeKathryn Ardleigh and her husband, Charles, are called on for help when scandal threatens Jennie Jerome Churchill. Her son Winston's political future is jeopardized by someone who claims to have proof that his father was none other than the notorious Jack the Ripper... 

 

My Review;

This was the first book in this series I have read and I really enjoyed it, I loved the Victorian England setting and I like all the characters, I am going to get the first book in the series so I can begin at the beginning!

 I have read quite a few books that featured Jack the Ripper and I found the theory of his identity in this one very plausible and I have even seen it presented before in the Johnny Depp movie; "From Hell" 2001.

 

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins - 5 stars - LOVED IT!!!

The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games #1)

by Suzanne Collins

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.

Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before—and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that will weigh survival against humanity and life against love

My Review;
This was a great book, totally worth all the hype! I love the action and the story is very unique and interesting. All the characters were very well developed, I even cried at one point in the book and I honestly could not put this book down once I started to read it! 

Murder on Astor Place by Victoria Thompson - 5 stars

Murder on Astor Place (A Gaslight Mystery #1)

by Victoria Thompson

As a midwife in turn-of-the-century New York, Sarah Brandt has seen pain and joy. Now she will work for something more--a search for justice--in a case of murder involving one of New York's richest families.

 

My Review; 

This a really good historical mystery. It is the first book in a series and I fully intend to get the next books in the series. I thought the characters were very well developed and I really enjoyed reading about New York City when it was still a very young city.

The House at Riverton by Kate Morton - 5 stars

The House at Riverton

by Kate Morton

"Grace Bradley went to work at Riverton House as a servant when she was just a girl, before the First World War. For years her life was inextricably tied up with the Hartford family, most particularly the two daughters, Hannah and Emmeline." "In the summer of 1924, at a glittering society party held at the house, a young poet shot himself. The only witnesses were Hannah and Emmeline and only they - and Grace - know the truth." "In 1999, when Grace is ninety-eight years old and living out her last days in a nursing home, she is visited by a young director who is making a film about the events of that summer. She takes Grace back to Riverton House and reawakens her memories. Told in flashback, this is the story of Grace's youth during the last days of Edwardian aristocratic privilege shattered by war, of the vibrant twenties and the changes she witnessed as an entire way of life vanished forever." The novel is full of secrets - some revealed, others hidden forever, reminiscent of the romantic suspense of Daphne du Maurier. It is also a meditation on memory, the devastation of war and a window into a fascinating time in history.

My Review;

 LOVED it! Great romance, great historical romance, I love stories that take place in sprawling old English country homes, they are as much a character of the story as any of the men or women in the book. This book had such wonderful characters, an excellent mystery and I loved reading the differences in how things that took place at Riverton were seen from various points of view the wealthy family members as well as the servants that work tirelessly behind the scenes. I also enjoyed how the story moved smoothly between the past and present. Kate Morton is a great new author for me and I am sure she is going to be a favorite!

Breaking Dawn by Stephenie Meyer - 5 stars

Breaking Dawn (Twilight #4)

by Stephenie Meyer

Twilight tempted the imagination. New Moon made readers thirsty for more. Eclipse turned the saga into a worldwide phenomenon. And now, the book that everyone has been waiting for...
Breaking Dawn, the final book in the #1 bestselling Twilight Saga, will take your breath away.

 

My Review; 

 This was my favorite of the Twilight series books. No more blubbering Bella, she finally gets a backbone and even thinks of someone other than herself and all her woe is me and I don't deserve Edward is at a minimum in this book. There is lots of great action, alot of loose threads are tied up in this book and for me even though it is a very large book, it was a very fast read. Great ending to a good series!

Sisters Red by Jackson Pearce / audio book / 4 stars

Sisters Red (Sisters Red #1)

by Jackson Pearce (Goodreads Author)

 Scarlet March lives to hunt the Fenris--the werewolves that took her eye when she was defending her sister Rosie from a brutal attack. Armed with a razor-sharp hatchet and blood-red cloak, Scarlett is an expert at luring and slaying the wolves. She's determined to protect other young girls from a grisly death, and her raging heart will not rest until every single wolf is dead.

Rosie March once felt her bond with her sister was unbreakable. Owing Scarlett her life, Rosie hunts ferociously alongside her. But even as more girls' bodies pile up in the city and the Fenris seem to be gaining power, Rosie dreams of a life beyond the wolves. She finds herself drawn to Silas, a young woodsman who is deadly with an ax and Scarlett's only friend--but does loving him mean betraying her sister and all that they've worked for?

My Review;
The was a very good story with a different twist on the old Red Riding Hood Fairytale. I loved that Jackson Pearce did not make the main male character, Silas, so dreamy, so wonderful, so handsome, so "sparkly"! 

I did guess the big twist to the story pretty much as soon as it was mentioned that they needed to look for a potential.

The sisters and Silas were very well drawn characters, not perfect, they had their flaws and their relationship with each other was complicated and not as simple as in some YA books.

Overall I liked this book I listened to the audio tapes and the three narrators were very good.

The Memory of Water by Karen White - 5 Stars

The Memory of Water

by Karen White

On the night their mother drowns, sisters Marnie and Diana Maitland discover there is more than one kind of death. There is the death of innocence, of love, and of hope. Each sister harbors a secret about that night-secrets that will erode their lives as they grow into adulthood.

After ten years of silence between the sisters, Marnie is called back to the South Carolina Lowcountry by Diana's ex-husband, Quinn. His young son has returned from a sailing trip with his emotionally unstable mother, and he is refusing to speak. In order to help the traumatized boy, Marnie must reopen old wounds and bring the darkest memories of their past to the surface. And she must confront Diana, before they all go under.
My Review; 
This is a wonderful book, full of family secrets and strong well defined characters. It's such a beautifully written book, I was drawn into the story and I felt as if the characters were very real to me. Karen White has a lovely way of describing life in the lowlands that made me want to go and visit and walk along the beaches.

Pretty Little Devils by Nancy Holder - 4 Stars

Pretty Little Devils

by Nancy Holder (Goodreads Author)

Watch out! These babysitters will stab you in the back. Everything changes for Hazel Stone when she’s noticed by Sylvia, queen bee of their high school’s popular girls, the Pretty Little Devils. Sylvia invites Hazel to one of the group’s famous soirees—held at the site of one of their babysitting jobs. Hazel couldn’t be more thrilled! But what she doesn’t know is that popularity comes with a price. Some people can become jealous of a girl’s newfound status— deadly jealous. One of these babysitting babes is a killer! Hazel has to figure out which one, before they turn their backstabbing ways on her.

My Review;

This was a very good YA mystery, the characters were very believable and I loved the twists in this story, I was totally fooled by the ending. It was also a great portrayal of the influence our peers can have on us in high school. This was a very fast read and very difficult to put down once I started to read it.

Sundays at Tiffany's by James Patterson 5 Stars

Sundays at Tiffany's

by James Patterson (Goodreads Author), Gabrielle Charbonnet

 

As a little girl, Jane has no one. Her mother, the powerful head of a Broadway theater company, has no time for her. She does have one friend-a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael-but only she can see him.

Years later, Jane is in her thirties and just as alone as ever. Then she meets Michael again-as handsome, smart and perfect as she remembers him to be. But not even Michael knows the reason they've really been reunited.

SUNDAYS AT TIFFANY'S is a love story with an irresistible twist, a novel about the child inside all of us-and the boundary-crossing power of love.

My Review;

This was a wonderful book, a lovely story about finding your true love, mothers and daughters and even a relationship with an imaginary friend. It made me a little misty eyed and I loved it. 

The Body Finder by Kimberly Derting - 5 stars

The Body Finder (The Body Finder #1)

by Kimberly Derting (Goodreads Author)

Violet Ambrose is grappling with two major issues: Jay Heaton and her morbid secret ability. While the sixteen-year-old is confused by her new feelings for her best friend since childhood, she is more disturbed by her "power" to sense dead bodies—or at least those that have been murdered. Since she was a little girl, she has felt the echoes that the dead leave behind in the world... and the imprints that attach to their killers.

Violet has never considered her strange talent to be a gift; it mostly just led her to find the dead birds her cat had tired of playing with. But now that a serial killer has begun terrorizing her small town, and the echoes of the local girls he's claimed haunt her daily, she realizes she might be the only person who can stop him.

Despite his fierce protectiveness over her, Jay reluctantly agrees to help Violet on her quest to find the murderer—and Violet is unnerved to find herself hoping that Jay's intentions are much more than friendly. But even as she's falling intensely in love, Violet is getting closer and closer to discovering a killer... and becoming his prey herself.

My Review;

I loved this book. It was an excellent first book in a new YA series. I enjoyed all the characters, the romance is very sweet and the mystery had enough twists and excitement to keep me reading. This was one of those books that was very difficult for me to put down once I started to read it. I loved the way Violet can find dead bodies and how she uses the victims "echoes" to find their killer. The cover art on this book is just gorgeous as well! 

Altar of Eden by James Rollins - 5 stars

Altar of Eden

by James Rollins (Goodreads Author)

Louisiana state veterinarian Lorna Polk stumbles upon a shipwrecked fishing trawler carrying a caged group of exotic animals. Yet, something is wrong with these beasts: a parrot with no feathers, a pair of Capuchin monkeys conjoined at the hip, a jaguar cub with the dentition of a saber-tooth tiger. They also all share one uncanny trait—a disturbingly heightened intelligence. To uncover the truth, Lorna must team up with a man who shares a dark and bloody past with her, U.S. Border Patrol Agent, Jack Menard. Together, the two must hunt for a beast that escaped the shipwreck while uncovering a mystery tied to fractal science and genetic engineering, all to expose a horrifying secret that traces back to mankind’s earliest roots.
But can Lorna stop what is about to be born upon the altar of Eden before it threatens not only the world, but also the very foundation of what it means to be human?

My Review
This is an excellent thriller, at first I thought it was going to be a monster chasing story (I love monster books!), but about 1/3 of the way through it switched up to an even more exciting story. This is a stand alone for Mr. Rollins and I love his stand alone books every much as I love the books in the Sigma Force series!  Every time I read one of his books, though, I learn something new and have to go look something up, fractals!

How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn - 5 stars

How Green Was My Valley

by Richard Llewellyn

Huw Morgan, about to leave home forever, reminisces about the golden days of his youth, when South Wales still prospered and coal dust had not yet blackened the valley. Llewellyn's characters fight, love, laugh, and cry, creating an indelible portrait of a people.

My Review;

I loved this book, I listened the audio book, 12 tapes, narrated by Patrick Tully and truly fell in love with all the characters, the prose in this book is rich and wonderful. After listening to it I can see the valley, the coal mine and all the people very clearly through the main character's (Huw Morgan) eyes.

This book is a classic and I can fully understand why,  the characters are so well developed and the trials and tribulations they endure as a family can be so exhilarating and also so tragic at times that they can break your heart!

I highly recommend this book, a visit to the Morgan family in Wales is time well spent!

The Swarm by Frank Schatzing - 2 stars

The Swarm: A Novel

by Frank Schätzing

Whales begin sinking ships. Toxic, eyeless crabs poison Long Island's water supply. The North Sea shelf collapses, killing thousands in Europe. Around the world, countries are beginning to feel the effects of the ocean's revenge as the seas and their inhabitants begin a violent revolution against mankind. In this novel, full of twists, turns, and cliffhangers, a team of scientists discovers a strange, intelligent life force called the Yrr that takes form in marine animals, using them to wreak havoc on humanity for our ecological abuses. Soon a struggle between good and evil is in full swing, with both human and suboceanic forces battling for control of the waters. At stake is the survival of the Earth's fragile ecology - and ultimately, the survival of the human race itself.
My Review; 

880 pages! This book had some fantastic action sequences and some interesting facts about the oceans and sea life. BUT it was bogged down with too much anti American, anti human, anti religion nonsense. And the characters, most were not very well developed at all, I didn't like any of them and if I had to hear one more reference to the movie "Contact" or Jodi Foster I was going to scream. I cannot in good conscience recommend this book to anyone. Like I said the action scenes were terrific and they are what kept me reading until a lame ending, that made almost no sense, but all the mishmash in between these scenes made the reading of this book a somewhat painful experience.

The Doomsday Key by James Rollins - 5 stars

The Doomsday Key (Sigma Force Series #6)

by James Rollins (Goodreads Author)

James Rollins, the New York Times bestselling master of nail-biting suspense and historical mystery, combines cutting-edge biotechnology with a centuries-old secret in an apocalyptic story that reveals where humankind is truly headed
The Doomsday Key
At Princeton University, a famed geneticist dies inside a biohazard lab. In Rome, a Vatican archaeologist is found dead in St. Peter's Basilica. In Africa, a U.S. senator's son is slain outside a Red Cross camp. The three murders on three continents bear a horrifying connection: all the victims are marked by a Druidic pagan cross burned into their flesh.
The bizarre murders thrust Commander Gray Pierce and Sigma Force into a race against time to solve a riddle going back centuries, to a ghastly crime against humanity hidden within a cryptic medieval codex. The first clue is discovered inside a mummified corpse buried in an English peat bog--a gruesome secret that threatens America and the world.
Aided by two women from his past--one his exlover, the other his new partner--Gray must piece together the horrifying truth. But the revelations come at a high cost, and to save the future, Gray will have to sacrifice one of the women at his side. That alone might not be enough, as the true path to salvation is revealed in a dark prophecy of doom.
Sigma Force confronts humankind's greatest threat in an adventure that races from the Roman Coliseum to the icy peaks of Norway, from the ruins of medieval abbeys to the lost tombs of Celtic kings. The ultimate nightmare is locked within a talisman buried by a dead saint--an ancient artifact known as the Doomsday Key.

My Review
This book was so exciting, I just loved it, I am loving the Sigma series more and more, I love the characters, the action is non stop and I usually learn some new things along the way. I was really interested in learning about seeds that have been genetically altered and I found a couple of good books on the subject, they were recommended by Mr. Rollins at the end of this book, and I have them on my wish list.

I especially like that Mr. Rollins doesn't just have guns, chase, explosions non stop, there is a story, you get a chance to catch your breath once in a while and the plot is very interesting.

5 Stars

Gone by Lisa Gardner - 5 Stars!

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Gone (Quincy & Rainie #5)

by Lisa Gardner

Gone (Quincy & Rainie, #5) 

The Barnes & Noble Review
In Lisa Gardner's thriller featuring troubled law enforcement consultant Lorraine "Rainie" Conner (The Next Accident, The Third Victim, et al.), she asks the question: When the love of your life vanishes, how far would you go to get him or her back?



When retired FBI profiler Pierce Quincy gets a phone call in the middle of the n...moreThe Barnes & Noble Review
In Lisa Gardner's thriller featuring troubled law enforcement consultant Lorraine "Rainie" Conner (The Next Accident, The Third Victim, et al.), she asks the question: When the love of your life vanishes, how far would you go to get him or her back?



When retired FBI profiler Pierce Quincy gets a phone call in the middle of the night, his worst fears become reality. Rainie, his estranged wife, has been kidnapped. After her car is found on a rural Oregon road with its driver's door open and engine idling, the Oregon State Police -- headed by overworked Sergeant Detective Carlton Kincaid -- receive a cryptic message from the unidentified abductor demanding money. Quincy immediately enlists the aid of his daughter Kimberly, an ambitious FBI agent based in Atlanta, and teams up with Kincaid and a local sheriff named Shelly Atkins in a race against time that could very well end in disaster. Rainie, meanwhile, is blindfolded and tied up "someplace dank and forgotten, where fat spiders weave huge masterpieces of sticky lace and small animals come to die." But as she battles with emotional and physical collapse, she comes to a stunning realization about herself



Gardner's Gone is noteworthy in large part for her brilliantly realistic character development. There are no black-and-white characters here -- only shades of gray. Protagonists like Conner and Quincy are dealing with just as many painful "issues" as their adversaries -- the difference being their ability to overcome their problems and become survivors, not victims. Fans of emotionally charged thrillers should pick up a copy of Gone before it's, well, gone.

 My Review;

Another great suspense thriller by Lisa Gardner. This is another installment in the Quincy/Rainie series and in this one we get a good look at the relationship between these two very well developed characters. There was enough action to keep me reading and on the edge of my seat. And there was some great secondary players as well, my heart was sad for little Dougie, what a fighter! Again, I will say Lisa Gardner is a great storyteller!

The Killing Hour by Lisa Gardner - 5 stars

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The Killing Hour (Quincy & Rainie #4)

by Lisa Gardner

The Killing Hour (Quincy & Rainie, #4)  

Each time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered—a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited...prey to a slow but certain death. The clock ticked—salvation was possible.
The police were never in time.
Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a heat
...moreEach time he struck, he took two victims. Day after day, he waited for the first body to be discovered—a body containing all the clues the investigators needed to find the second victim, who waited...prey to a slow but certain death. The clock ticked—salvation was possible.
The police were never in time.
Years have passed; but for this killer, time has stood still. As a heat wave of epic proportions descends, the game begins again. Two girls have disappeared...and the clock is ticking.
Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy knows the killer’s deadline can be met. But she’ll have to break some rules to beat an exactingly vicious criminal at a game he’s had time to perfect.
For the Killing Hour has arrived....

My Review;

Great book, a wonderful thriller, it kept me on the edge and guessing until the end! I could not put it down, once I started reading, Lisa Gardner is so good at the description of her characters and their surroundings, I really felt I was in the midst of the action, the victims and the horrors they experienced seemed very real to me. This is not one I will easily forget.

The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner - 5 stars!

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The Next Accident (Quincy & Rainie #3)

by Lisa Gardner

The Next Accident 

New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner is at the top of her form as she takes us on a desperate manhunt for a killer who preys upon his victims’ minds—just before he claims their lives.

What do you do when a killer targets the people you love the most? When he knows how to make them vulnerable? When he knows the same about you?

These are the questions that haunt FBI ...moreNew York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner is at the top of her form as she takes us on a desperate manhunt for a killer who preys upon his victims’ minds—just before he claims their lives.

What do you do when a killer targets the people you love the most? When he knows how to make them vulnerable? When he knows the same about you?

These are the questions that haunt FBI Special Agent Pierce Quincy. The police say his daughter’s death was an accident. Quincy will risk everything to learn the truth—and there’s only one person willing to help. Ex-cop Rainie Connor had once been paired professionally—and personally—with the brilliant FBI profiler. He helped her through the darkest days of her life.

Now it’s time for Rainie to return the favor. But this killer is like none these two hard-boiled pros have ever encountered. This twisted psychopath has an insatiable hunger for revenge...and for fear. As the clock ticks down to one unspeakably intimate act of vengeance, the only way Rainie can unmask this killer is to step directly in his murderous path. She will become a murder waiting to happen. She will be...the next accident

My Review;

I enjoyed this book, it was a tense, thrilling ride, the action is non-stop and the character development is just fantastic. Lisa Gardner, with her writing, makes you see and really care about the people, the victims, the good guys (Pierce, Raine, Kimberly, Luke, and Glenda) and really, really HATE the evil that some people are capable of committing!