Frank H. (perryfran) reviewed on 3/18/2021 + 1178 more book reviews

This is the first thriller by Lisa Gardner that I have read and I really enjoyed it. It is the second book in the D.D. Warren series although Warren seemed more of a secondary character. The main focus of the novel was on Bobby Dodge, a sniper with the State police, who evidently had a previous affair with Warren. The pair are called to a very horrific crime scene, an underground chamber discovered on the property of a former Boston mental hospital containing six small naked mummified female bodies in clear garbage bags. A silver locket with one of the corpses, which may be decades old, bears the name Annabelle Granger. But is the corpse really Annabelle? No, Annabelle is actually alive and has been on the run with her family since childhood. Her father taught her self defense and would frequently move her and her mother to new cities, change identities, and live new lives. But why would he do this? Was it somehow related to the dead girls found near the old mental hospital?

This was really a good thriller. Annabelle plays a large role in the story (more so than D.D.) as she and the police try to identify the serial killer. Is he still out there and is he interested in Annabelle? Gardner throws out several different potential suspects and at the end, all was not as it first seemed. I have one other book by Gardner on my TBR shelves which I hope to read soon and I'll be on the lookout for more by her.

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