Sunday Suspense: Find Her by Lisa Gardner

 

Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,

   

    Find Her is written by best-selling author Lisa Gardner, presenting the eighth book in her popular Detective D.D. Warren series. It is published by Penguin Random House under their Dutton Books imprint. In it, we are introduced to kidnap survivor, Flora Dane. After being held captive for four hundred and seventy-two days, Flora has emerged as someone different. Five years after her abduction she is a survivalist and apparent vigilante, seeking out predators to bring them to justice. Then one night her surveillance goes awry and Flora is abducted at a Boston nightclub. Sergeant Detective D.D. Warren arrives at the kidnapper's home, and they find him burned to death and Flora naked and bound in his garage. 

  A mystery begins to unfold as the personal belongings of several other girls are found in the kidnapper's house. But there is one girl whose belongings are not at the man's home, Stacey Summers. Summers was abducted several months prior, and it was her abduction that Flora Dane was investigating. As D.D. begins to unfold the layers of the now-growing mystery, Flora vanishes. This ushers in a sinister evil from the past may either solve this mystery or put Warren in the ground. 

  Find Her is crime fiction at its best. There are more twists and turns in this novel than the most thrilling roller coaster. Just when I thought I had solved the mystery and identified what was happening Gardner seemed to point to the rug I was standing on, and laughed as she yanked it out from under me. Find Her is presented with three distinct voices that seamlessly flow as the book unravels its diabolical narrative. But Gardner knows when to give information and when to save it for later. She lets us peek under the lid of her box of horrors from time to time, and when she does we are sent reeling back with each revelation.

  I read this book in part with the narration of Kirsten Potter. She had the daunting task of reading Flora Dane's duel narrative (one as a captive and one as a survivor). Potter presented to us the voice of a woman whose very psyche was shattering while transitioning flawlessly into the Flora of today. I was impressed and I look forward to hearing Potter read more of this character's future stories.

  After settling this book back into my library I felt energized and excited. This was a five-star read for me. Lisa Gardner has created an excellent protagonist with plenty of courage and strength. 

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