Alone by Lisa Gardner Series: Detective D.D. Warren #1
Published by Bantam on January 11, 2005
Genres: Suspense
Pages: 480
Format: eBook
Source: Library
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Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences.
Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son’s death . . . and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital.
Alone . . . a madman survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he’d done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous . . . and filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance. What brings them together is a moment of violence—but what connects them is a passion far deeper and much more dangerous. For a killer is loose who’s woven such an intricate web of evil that no one is above suspicion, no one is beyond harm, and no one will see death coming until it has them cornered, helpless, and alone.
Dodge is called out as a sniper for a domestic dispute. He isn’t there long when the husband pulls a gun and points it at the wife. What was Dodge to do besides trying to save the wife and mother. It isn’t until later that he realizes he’s met the wife before and it causes issues for him. The wife also has a history. She was kidnapped as a child and held underground and assaulted. But he’s now released and she’s become a target.
While this is a police procedural story, there’s more to this one than most. I really feel like all the characters really bring something to the story. I loved Bobby Dodge and I really felt for him, having to take a man’s life with little information and little oversight. But had he waited, what would’ve been the outcome? Would the wife have survived if he hadn’t pulled that trigger? We will never know.
I had a great time with this story and quickly downloaded the second story in the series. I couldn’t wait to have more time with D.D. Warren and Bobby Dodge. I loved them both.
About Lisa Gardner
New York Times bestselling crime novelist Lisa Gardner began her career in food service, but after catching her hair on fire numerous times, she took the hint and focused on writing instead. A self-described research junkie, she has parlayed her interest in police procedure, cutting edge forensics and twisted plots into a streak of eleven bestselling suspense novels.
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Lisa lives in the White Mountains of New Hampshire with her family, as well as two highly spoiled dogs and one extremely neurotic three-legged cat. Lisa graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a degree in international relations.
I started listening to audiobooks when a new book in a series was coming out and I wanted to get a refresher, but didn’t have time to read all the books (I think it was Anita Blake). I fell in love. I stayed with strictly re-reading books that I’d already read for a long time. I eventually tried an audiobook for something that I hadn’t read first and was hooked there too. Now, I listen to audio for both re-reads and first time. I have some series that I’ve given up reading and only listen. I try to get any many books/audiobooks from the library to help save on my budget. Books on CD and the newer digital downloads from the library really allow me to listen more. I then purchase my favorites (because who can wait in line for your favorite book??) and less mainstream books from Audible or some other online retailer.
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The only book I’ve read by Lisa Gardner is Find Her, which is also a DD Warren mystery…though it’s more about Flora Dane than DD Warren. But it’s a really good one, too.
I’ve read the whole series except maybe the last 1-2.
I’ll be adding this one to my wish list. This sounds really good.
D.D. Warren and Bobby Dodge sound fun