Jaclyn’s Review: Look For Me by Lisa Gardner

Look For Me (Detective D.D. Warren #9)
written by Lisa Gardner
published by Dutton, 2018

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Disclosure: I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

Did I enjoy this book? So, I didn’t hate this book. I thought it was well written. I liked how the author advanced the plot both by real-time narration and the “homework assignment” essays. I was also surprised by the ending (so this is all I will say about it)–that doesn’t usually happen. The problem that I had with this book was that it periodically referenced events that happened in other books that I didn’t read. Apparently, two of the main characters have their own book series. No, I didn’t NEED to read them to understand what happened in this book, but I didn’t appreciate the references either. This book also dealt with some difficult topics–child abuse in foster care, an entire family is murdered (including parents and young children)–I wouldn’t describe this book as gory by any means, but this could definitely be hard to read.
 

 
Would I recommend it? Maybe some people wouldn’t be bothered by picking up a book in the middle of a series without reading the preceding books. I am not one of those people. If you are one of those people, I encourage you to read this book. If you can’t handle it (like me), I’d recommend you either find the other books or just skip altogether.
 

 

About the book – from Goodreads: In #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner’s latest twisty thrill ride, Detective D. D. Warren and “Find Her”‘s Flora Dane return in a race against the clock to either save a young girl’s life . . . or bring her to justice.

The home of a family of five is now a crime scene: four of them savagely murdered, one—a sixteen-year-old girl—missing. Was she lucky to have escaped? Or is her absence evidence of something sinister? Detective D. D. Warren is on the case—but so is survivor-turned-avenger Flora Dane. Seeking different types of justice, they must make sense of the clues left behind by a young woman who, whether as victim or suspect, is silently pleading, Look for me.

 

 

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