Given that this novel was the start of the D.D. But even with those superficial similarities, the approaches to the two novels ended up being quite different and I gradually got pulled in just as thoroughly.Īs with Find Her, the narrative in Alone is divided among several people’s perspectives.

The two novels are also set much further apart chronologically than my particular reading approach so I doubt the similarity is as pronounced for anyone who reads the books in the published order but it made it a little difficult to get into the story for me at first-too much of a déjà vu feeling. There was a bit of a repetitious feel to elements of Alone-like Find Her Catherine has a past that includes having been abducted and sexually abused before eventually being found, but Catherine was much younger when it happened and the duration of her captivity before being found much shorter. One of the things I loved most about Find Her were the depths of the characters, particularly the surviving victims. Pulled into the thick of the case by the judge’s vendetta against him, Bobby learns more about the widow, Catherine Gagnon whom the judge accuses of abusing her son for attention. As if killing a man weren’t enough, it turns out the man was the son of a very influential judge who has it out for Bobby, accusing the officer of colluding with the dead man’s wife to kill him. The first to respond when the team gets called to a domestic incident in which a husband is holding his wife and child hostage, Bobby finds himself taking the shot and killing the husband as the man raises his gun on his wife and puts his finger on the trigger.

Warren series, Alone, I have high hopes that the books will all end up being strong enough to stand-alone like the series’ first and latest installments.īobby Dodge is a Boston cop who also works as a sniper with a special tactical response unit. Going to the start of Lisa Gardner’s Detective D.D. Since I tend to be a bit of a completest, I decided to go back to the beginning of that series to read the others as well. I was amazed by how well Find Her read after I discovered it was actually the eighth book in an established series.

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