Gone (FBI Profiler Series #5)

An Attention Getter

I have to say I started this book about 4 years ago around the time I was due to have my child, unfortunately I picked it up off & on again but never really had time to finish it until recently. Once I really took time to actually read it I found myself wrapped back in another good book of Lisa Gardner's that I really enjoyed. I have read all of Gardner's book up to this one and just like all others I really enjoyed this book and couldn't wait to see who the villian was. I really like how Gardner brings characters from her other books together, it makes them real. I highly recommend this book if you enjoy a good thriller or are a fan of Lisa Gardner.

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Been there and . . . Gone

I love Lisa Gardner's unique writing style and 'Gone' is no exception. I enjoyed the fast paced action and the subtle yet revealing dialogue. After reading all of her books I feel as if I know Quincy, Rainie, Kimberly and Mac. I had no choice but to read the book in one night, but now I'm disappointed since it'll be another year before Gardner's next book comes out. I recommend reading the books in order. Enjoy!

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Just enough

This is one of my standard authors, I always expect to come away from the book feeling saited. Some of her books blow my hair back, this one not so much but I would recommend it anyway. I encourage you to browse her offerings. You may end up needing a hairbrush at some point.

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Better Than Great

This is one of Lisa Gardners best efforts to date. She hooks you at the beginning and does no let go. When Loraine is Depressed you can feel her pain. Dougie you know from the beginning, this child is trouble, and when it comes to him your anger flairs up. Mistreatment of a child just never to be tolerated I can't say enough about this book, it is great. There are also shocks along the way. I thought twice I knew who the kidnapper was, wrong.

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Another winner for Lisa Gardner

This was a very good story line, I believe Lisa Gardner has another winner here. Fast paced, she hooks you from the first page. Very hard to put down once you start. Highly recommend this book, it is a good read. -

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Good read

One of gardners best

Very good read!

I enjoyed GONE by Lisa Gardner. The characters are great and well known now into this, the 5th FBI Profiler series novel. Gardner keeps you guessing and has a great way with the pen. Highly recommended.

Awesome!

This book is so awesome; couldn't put it down; sort of dragged in the beginning because I hadn't read the book characters leading up to the Raine saga. But will definitely keep reading them. Lisa Gardner has done it again!!

Highly Recommended

Action packed and unpredictable, fast paced to the end leaving readers to wonder when Lisa Gardner sleeps; I'm off to buy a new FBI Profiler book!

Another Good One By Gardner

Gone by Lisa Gardner is another suspense thriller that is fascinating. Rainie is the wife of a semi-retired FBI profiler (Quincy), a child advocate for 7-yr-old Dougie who has issues, and an alcoholic who is kidnapped on a stormy night from her car on a desolate road in Oregon seven days after her husband left her. It's a race against the clock to find Rainie before it's too late. The cops really have no leads and are at the mercy of the kidnapper who calls the shots. Quincy and his daughter, Kimberly-an FBI agent from Atlanta both become actively involved in the investigation. When Quincy overhears the kidnapper's voice he is shocked as was I at who it was. My favorite part of this book was Rainie fighting to figure out how to escape and protect Dougie. Dougie was a very interesting character who kept my interest. He provided an interesting facet of this novel. I enjoyed this book and recommend it to anyone who likes a thrilling mystery.

Highly Recommended- you must read this book.

This is the first time I heard about Lisa Gardner and she rocks I read 2 other books by her and she is a very good writer. I usually read James Patterson but I never heard of her before. She is not bad and her books are cheap.

Couldn't put it down

Did not put this one down until I read the last page. This entire series is excellent, with many surprises.... Grabs you from the minute you open the book. Can't wait to begin the next in the series.

A good read!

It was not her best but very entertaining once you were into the story, give yourself time to catch the story.

A page-turner!

Confusing at first...but then the story heats up-one of Lisa Gardner's good ones...usually enjoy her books and this one did not disappoint!

Excellent read!

This book was given to me just to kill time one day. I didn't know I would enjoy it soooo much! It is a page turner from cover to cover. I couldn't put it down even when I had to! I would recommend this book to anyone!

A little bit too much like other books

This book was pretty good. Some of the characters were strong, and the dialogue between them was excellent at times. I did enjoy the book, but it lacked something. It lacked something different. I wouldn't say the it was necessarily predictable, but there was nothing about it really unique. Also, while trying not to give too much away, some things on the back of the book are just dropped in from time to time. The author's writing was entertaining, and I would surely read another of her titles. This is a good book, and most people would enjoy it, but if you are looking for uniqueness, you may want to try a different book, by this author or another.

Excellent Lisa Gardner mystery.

Lisa Gardner can plain out ¿write¿ in a way that any lover of mysteries will enjoy. GONE is no exception. Pierce Quincy is a retired FBI Profiler. On an Oregon highway, the car of his estranged wife, Rainie, has been found with its motor running and her purse on the seat. But there is no sign of Rainie! Kimberly, their daughter and an FBI agent, has been receiving calls from Rainie¿s cell phone but no one is there when she answers. Just noise and static. Who is attempting to reach out and from where? Did someone find Rainie¿s cell phone or is it actually Rainie attempting to contact someone? The authorities searched the woods in the vicinity where the car was found but nothing was found yet. Several law enforcement agencies were brought in to play from the local Sheriff to the FBI, all working to outdistance the others. Sheriff Atkins led the local cops and knew the area the best but she was learning as she went but she seemed to have her head square on her shoulders in her investigation. When Quincy receives a phone call telling the authorities to read the morning newspaper, they all rush to find the correct paper. The letter sent to the local newspaper from the kidnapper told Quincy to place $10,000.00 at the spot shown on the crudely drawn map that accompanied the ransom note. The story occasionally drifts back as Rainie describes what she is going through during and after her kidnapping. She is hurting and doing all she can do to release her bonds but without success. There was no contact when the ransom was dropped so the mystery continued with more ransom notes increasing the ransom were delivered to the newspaper, all signed by a different name, but all belonging to a famous killer from the past. Dougie was a troubled foster child that had been through the system for many years. Dougie liked to start fires so no one wanted him around. Eventually Dougie was taken captive also and thrown in a cellar with Rainie where they both had to try to escape their bonds and get away before the kidnapper hurt them even more. Quincy realizes how much he really loves Rainie as his search deepens and intensifies. The book does not allow the reader to leave it very long. ¿Gone¿ is well worth your reading time. The suspense and storyline does not let up. No dull spots from Lisa Gardner. A great surprise ending.

Thrilling

Things aren¿t going well for Rainie Quincy. A pending adoption has been terminated due to her past alcohol abuse, her investigation into the brutal murder of a mother and daughter continually haunts her, and the foster child she is advocating is obstinate and doesn¿t trust her. Her ensuing depression leads to alcohol abuse and a prescription with serious side effects, followed by her husband Pierce Quincy leaving her. When Rainie disappears, Sergeant Detective Carlton Kincaid suspects she may be a potential suicide, but Pierce, a former FBI profiler, believes otherwise. His theory is validated when a ransom letter is delivered to the local newspaper. Quincy calls in his daughter FBI agent Kimberly Quincy and her fiancé Mac McCormack, detective with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation. Aware that kidnap victims are rarely returned alive, the three begin a frantic race to find Rainie while butting heads with local authorities. Meanwhile Rainie is doing her best to stay alive, but the side effects from the antidepressant she was taking are rendering her body uncooperative. When the kidnapper snatches the boy she had been working with, Rainie¿s desperate to save both of them, but the kidnapper always seems one step ahead of her. Gone is a captivating thriller that moves quickly with gut-wrenching suspense and nonstop action. Rainie is an intrepid character the reader will empathize with and want to succeed. Although the true motivation behind the kidnapper¿s actions isn¿t clear, this is one good read with interesting, complex characters the author explores in-depth and a plot that never lags.

Gone

Mike A. The book I read was Gone by Lisa Gardner. When FBI agent Pierce Quincy¿s ex-wife Raine Connor¿s car is found abandoned on the side of a highway, at 3 in the morning, Pierce gets called to come inspect. While going through all this, the question is still whether she abandoned the car or if she was kidnapped. When the FBI find a ransom note for Raine in the city newspaper all questions are answered. Throughout the book it switches between Raine¿s perspective and Pierce¿s perspective. While Raine is fighting to escape, Pierce is fighting to find her. While putting clues together to find his ex-wife Pierce realizes how much he still loves her. Thought this book was pretty interesting. The book wasn¿t very intense until about 70 pages into it but once it got exciting, it was amazing. I thought it was exciting because there were parts of the book on Raine in which she tried to fight off her captor and tried to escape. It also interested me how all these little clues and pieces of the book came together at the end of the book. I didn¿t feel like I was in the book, because it was a book about finding someone that is kidnapped and I¿ve never had to do that. I thought the main conflict was very interesting because it had a lot of action and people always had tasks to do and not enough time to do them. The main conflict made the book suspenseful and made you want to read until you found out what happens. The characters seemed very real because they had real-life problems. An example for that is Raine and Pierce are divorced, and also Raine is an alcoholic. Making the characters have real-life problems made this book seem more realistic to me. The book¿s ending was very satisfying to me. I thought the last 50 pages of the book were the most exciting and things were getting very intense. The author did a great job on the ending by taking pieces from the beginning of the book and puzzling them together to give it a shocking ending. The author¿s writing style was very interesting because she switched off narrators from Raine to Pierce to other detectives. I liked this writing style because, if something good was happening at the end of a chapter you would have to read the next chapter about someone else before you could continue with the other person¿s problem. For example, when Raine was stuck in a flooded basement and almost froze to death, the author ended the chapter and made the next chapter about Pierce, which made me keep reading to see if Raine would survive. Some unique things about the author¿s writing style were, he made some parts of the book kind of freaky. There are parts were you don¿t know what is going to happen and something unexpected happens. For example, when Raine was locked in the trunk of a car, and she was being driven somewhere she didn¿t know where. Also, the author makes the book seem like a movie with his writing because he is so descriptive even about minor details of the character¿s environment. I enjoyed the author¿s writing a lot because he made the book interest me and made me like the book. I would rate this book an 8/10 because it was very good but not as good as other books I¿ve read. This book pieced together the ending just like the book Da Vinci Code, but I thought Da Vinci Code was a lot more interesting and suspenseful. I would still recommend this book to any boy or girl who enjoys suspenseful books. The book Gone by Lisa Gardner was very enjoyable, but if you don¿t like books where you have to read a little bit for the book to get interesting, this isn¿t the book for you. I thought this book was very intense and action filled.

Wow!

I happened on this at the bookstore and had never read anything by this author before, so gave it a try. What a well written, cohesive book! Exciting and compelling, it kept me reading whenever I had a free minute. Even though this is the last in a series of books involving the same cast, it did not affect my understanding or enjoyment of the book. I plan to read all of Lisa Gardner's books. Hooray!