#lisa gardner
Publication Date: January 19th, 2021
Rating: ★★★
Before She Disappeared is Lisa Gardner’s first standalone in twenty years. Frankie Elkin is almost your average middle-aged woman- except for the fact that she’s a recovering alcoholic who spends her time tracking down missing people the world has forgotten about. Her search for new cases leads her to a Boston neighborhood in search of Angelique Badeau. Finding the missing Haitian teenager becomes increasingly difficult Frankie comes to discover, but she won’t stop trying to uncover the truth.
Lisa Gardner is a creative author and a favorite of mine, but this wasn’t my favorite book of hers. I didn’t connect with Frankie the way that I normally like to with characters. You can definitely see the logic behind her character, I just wanted more. She did have some funny dialogue, if you’re the type to like the occasional witty remarks in your mysteries.
I love the entire concept of this book, of the main character being someone who closes these cases that no one else can (or wants to). I also enjoyed the ending!
Thank you to Penguin Group/Dutton, Edelweiss, and Lisa Gardner for this ARC.
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Saylor Rains
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Currently reading this book. Not that far in but liking it so far. Impatiently waiting for “Hidden Bodies” by Caroline Kepnes to be released tomorrow.
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When You See Me by Lisa Gardner - Review
5/5 Stars
I honestly love this series. Each book just gets more and more amazing.
In this book, D.D. is joined by past characters to help solve the mystery surrounding a body that is discovered in the mountains.
We’re also reunited with Flora, a past character who has honestly grown on me. Flora tags along with D.D. to the mountains and finds way more than she expected to.
This book is written extremely well and the plot just pulls you in. During the last 70 pages or so, I honestly couldn’t read fast enough. I had to know what happened next.
This book could be read just fine as a standalone due to all the background information but I definitely recommend reading the whole D.D. Warren series if you haven’t. You won’t regret it!
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for a copy in exchange for a review.
I had a terrible day yesterday but today is definitely much better. I had requested the new book by Lisa Gardner (When You See Me) last week on Netgalley and my request was declined. I got an email from the publisher this morning inviting me to read it in exchange for a review. I’m so excited!
