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When a story touches me so much it makes me cry, that story deserveThank you to NetGalley and Penguin Group-Dutton for a digital galley of this novel.
When a story touches me so much it makes me cry, that story deserves a five star rating. And I don't mean just tear up, I mean cry.
If you have been following the Detective D. D. Warren series you will remember the circumstances of the kidnapping, torture and sexual abuse of Flora Dane in the book FIND HER. In that book we learned what had happened to Flora during her 472 days of captivity and watched her turn into a vigilante force for finding and helping other victims. Now Detective Warren is grudgingly using the very unusual skills Flora and some of her group of survivors have to try to find a missing teen, Roxanna Baez. When they find her, will Roxy be a victim or a suspect? Her family members have all been killed inside their home on a quiet Saturday morning. Where is Roxy and why is she still alive?
I am a real fan of the writing of Lisa Gardner because she captures my interest and draws me into the situations in her stories so well I find myself feeling fully involved. This story of a family being killed with all that happened to them leading up to that tragedy was definitely hard to read because it felt so believable and possible. Unfortunately situations like this come to our attention frequently in the real world but Gardner keeps the crime scene details as vague as she can while still showing the reader the crime. If you have difficulty reading about children and teens placed in harmful situations, this might not be the book for you. So many people were trying to do good and yet it went so terribly wrong. ...more
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