About Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner is the New York Times bestselling author of thirteen novels. Her Detective D. D. Warren novels include Live to Tell, Hide, Alone, and the International Thriller Writers’ Award-winning novel The Neighbor. Her FBI Profiler novels include Say Goodbye, Gone, The Killing Hour, The Next Accident, and The Third Victim. She lives with her family in New England.
Lisa’s latest book is Love You More. Visit her online at http://lisagardner.com/.
About Love You More
WHO DO YOU LOVE?
One question, a split-second decision, and Brian Darby lies dead on the kitchen floor. His wife, state police trooper Tessa Leoni, claims to have shot him in self-defense, and bears the bruises to back up her tale. For veteran detective D. D. Warren it should be an open-and-shut case. But where is their six-year-old daughter?
AND HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO . . .
As the homicide investigation ratchets into a frantic statewide search for a missing child, D. D. Warren must partner with former lover Bobby Dodge to break through the blue wall of police brotherhood, seeking to understand the inner workings of a trooper’s mind while also unearthing family secrets. Would a trained police officer truly shoot her own husband? And would a mother harm her own child?
. . . TO SAVE HER?
For Tessa Leoni, the worst has not yet happened. She is walking a tightrope, with nowhere to turn, no one to trust, as the clock ticks down to a terrifying deadline. She has one goal in sight, and she will use every ounce of her training, every trick at her disposal, to do what must be done. No sacrifice is too great, no action unthinkable. A mother knows who she loves. And all others will be made to pay.
Love you more . . .
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My Take: Oh My goodness!! This book grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go until you come to the end gasping for breath. Just when you think you have the story figured out the author throws another curve into it making you wonder were this is all going and nothing else can be revealed and twisted around. But sure enough here comes another twist and your head is swimming.
D.D.Warren shows up to what appears to be a spousal abuse situation where the wife has killed her husband in self defense. But wait the wife just happens to be a state trooper with training in hand to hand combat and the knowledge, skill and equipment to solve the situation without using deadly force. And what has happened to Sophie, the trooper's little girl? Just as D.D .and her squad think they have something figured out in this case some new evidence comes to light that takes it in a totally different direction.
D.D. is also dealing with something in her personal life that she never thought she would deal with. She needs to make a decision that will change her life forever.
There is more language in this book than I would like but it is understandable in light of the characters.
I would recommend this book if you like thrilling edge of your seat suspense.
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Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Live To Tell By Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner is the New York Times bestselling author of twelve novels. Her Detective D. D. Warren novels include The Neighbor, Hide, and Alone. Her FBI Profiler novels include Say Goodbye, Gone, The Killing Hour, The Next Accident, and The Third Victim. She lives with her family in New England, where she is at work on her next D. D. Warren novel, Save Me, which Bantam will publish in 2011.
You can find Lisa online at http://www.lisagardner.com/
He knows everything about you—including the first place you’ll hide.
Danielle Burton is a survivor, a dedicated nurse whose passion is to help children at a locked-down pediatric psych ward. But she remains haunted by a family tragedy that shattered her life nearly twenty-five years ago. The dark anniversary is approaching, and when D. D. Warren and her partner show up at the facility, Danielle immediately realizes: It has started again.
A devoted mother, Victoria Oliver has a hard time remembering what normalcy is like. But she will do anything to ensure that her troubled son has some semblance of a childhood. She will love him no matter what. Nurture him. Keep him safe. Protect him. Even when the threat comes from within her own house.
In New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner’s most compelling work of suspense to date, the lives of these three women unfold and connect in unexpected ways, as sins from the past emerge—and stunning secrets reveal just how tightly blood ties can bind. Sometimes the most devastating crimes are the ones closest to home.
Lisa Gardner’s LIVE TO TELL VIRTUAL BOOK TOUR AUG ‘10 will officially begin on August 2nd and end on August 27th. You can visit Lisa’s blog stops at http://www.virtualbooktours.wordpress.com during the month of August to find out more about this great book and talented author!
My Take: Someone is killing entire families with one thing in common. They have children that have severe mental illness. I found this book extremely riveting as the subject matter hit home a bit because I use to work at a children's home for children the physically and emotionally abused. I have seen first hand how some children cope by physically striking out to both themselves and to others (I had to get stitches in two fingers after one such child slammed a door on my hand cutting my fingers and ripping off one of my fingernails). I felt the anger that the Main character D.D. Warren felt at the murderer for targeting some of this societies weakest members. Reading about these children was at times difficult but I thought the author did a great job at not only bringing out the problems these type of children have but also making them people not just little monsters. This was a great thriller and had my attention from the first page.
My only complaint about the book was the whole sexual talk between D.D. and Alex. I am not a prude but I really didn't think that it was necessary. This didn't take up alot of the book though. Language was pretty raw at times.
Over All a great book. I highly recommend it but definitely for mature readers only.
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