Gone - Lisa Gardner

Lisa Gardner has written many books and her first in the Quincy series is 'The Perfect Husband'. There are also follow on books which I will detail below. For this book we again meet ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy. His worst nightmare is quite possibly coming true. There is a car abandoned, with the engine still running and no sign of the owner. The problem is the car belongs to his estranged wife Rainie Conner who was an ex-cop. When Quincy starts to receive ransom notes he decided to call in help in the form of his daughter Kimberly who is an FBI agent and her partner Mac to help him find Rainie. Quincy is well aware that he is racing against the clock as he ...  Read the complete review

Approximately 3 years ago, my sister introduced me to Lisa Gardner by accident. She picked up her book "The Killing Hour" in our local £ shop. I couldn't get into it immediately, and it took me 3 or 4 attempts to read it. By the time I'd put it down, having soaked in every word, I was determined to read more of her material. Going back to the beginning, I read the rest of her published works in the space of 4 weeks. I am not really that enamoured by authors who have a continuing thread of characters running through their books for exactly the same reason as I've stopped watching long running drama on tv. It takes too much investment, as opposed ...  Read the complete review