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  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,      Gone is written by Lisa Gardner and is the fifth novel in her best-selling FBI Profiler series. It is published by Bantam Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Gone opens two years after the events of the Killing Hour. Kimberly Quincy has graduated from the FBI Academy and moved to Atlanta, Georgia where she continues her relationship with Special Agent Mac McCormack. In Oregon, her father Pierce Quincy has married his long-time partner, Rainie Conner. They still are trying to balance criminal consulting with their relationship. Their latest attempts to adopt have not been favorable. Then the unthinkable happens... Rainie disappears without a trace.   As the news of Rainie's apparent abduction begins to unfold, Quincy joins forces with his daughter and Mac to help local law enforcement. What they are introduced to a cold and calculating person who signs ransom letters ...

  Hello, Fellow Book Worms and Book Dragons,       The Killing Hour is written by Lisa Gardner and is the fourth book in her best-selling FBI Profiler series. It is published by Bantam Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. In it, we are introduced to a young Kimberly Quincy in her final weeks of training at the FBI Academy in Virginia. Haunted by the murders of her mother and sister, she has become an island unto herself.   As Kimberly wades through the haze of exhaustion she stumbles (literally) upon the dead body of a young woman on the grounds of the FBI Academy.    Special Agent Mac McCormack asks Kimberly in aiding him in gathering evidence. T he clues begin to confirm that this is indeed the murderer from McCormack's previous cases.  This killer kidnaps pairs of women, with the first body left as a clue to find his second victim. If they look at the clues he leaves they may be able to save the second victim.  Also in the mix a...