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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Lisa Gardner's Love You More and from the network that brought you Mad Men, and The Walking Dead, comes an addictive crime thriller with crushing twists. Get an exclusive peek at the script for The Killing, AMC’s newest original series, which tracks the murder of a Seattle teenager and the gripping investigation it sparks. April 3 at 9/8c, only on AMC.

From New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Alone and The Killing Hour, comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in ...
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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Lisa Gardner's Love You More and from the network that brought you Mad Men, and The Walking Dead, comes an addictive crime thriller with crushing twists. Get an exclusive peek at the script for The Killing, AMC’s newest original series, which tracks the murder of a Seattle teenager and the gripping investigation it sparks. April 3 at 9/8c, only on AMC.

From New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, author of Alone and The Killing Hour, comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in the blink of an eye.…

 When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back?
 For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it’s the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver’s seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate.

Did one of the ghosts from Rainie’s troubled past finally catch up with her? Or could her disappearance be the result of one of the cases they’d been working– a particularly vicious double homicide or the possible abuse of a deeply disturbed child Rainie took too close to heart?  Together with his daughter, FBI agent Kimberly Quincy, Pierce is battling the local authorities, racing against time, and frantically searching for answers to all the questions he’s been afraid to ask.

One man knows what happened that night. Adopting the alias of a killer caught eighty years before, he has already contacted the press. His terms are clear: he wants money, he wants power, he wants celebrity. And if he doesn’t get what he wants, Rainie will be gone for good.

Sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, it’s still not enough.
As the clock winds down on a terrifying deadline, Pierce plunges headlong into the most desperate hunt of his life, into the shattering search for a killer, a lethal truth, and for the love of his life, who may forever be…gone.

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In Lisa Gardner's thriller featuring troubled law enforcement consultant Lorraine "Rainie" Conner (The Next Accident, The Third Victim, et al.), she asks the question: When the love of your life vanishes, how far would you go to get him or her back?

When retired FBI profiler Pierce Quincy gets a phone call in the middle of the night, his worst fears become reality. Rainie, his estranged wife, has been kidnapped. After her car is found on a rural Oregon road with its driver's door open and engine idling, the Oregon State Police -- headed by overworked Sergeant Detective Carlton Kincaid -- receive a cryptic message from the unidentified abductor demanding money. Quincy immediately enlists the aid of his daughter Kimberly, an ambitious FBI agent based in Atlanta, and teams up with Kincaid and a local sheriff named Shelly Atkins in a race against time that could very well end in disaster. Rainie, meanwhile, is blindfolded and tied up "someplace dank and forgotten, where fat spiders weave huge masterpieces of sticky lace and small animals come to die." But as she battles with emotional and physical collapse, she comes to a stunning realization about herself…

Gardner's Gone is noteworthy in large part for her brilliantly realistic character development. There are no black-and-white characters here -- only shades of gray. Protagonists like Conner and Quincy are dealing with just as many painful "issues" as their adversaries -- the difference being their ability to overcome their problems and become survivors, not victims. Fans of emotionally charged thrillers should pick up a copy of Gone before it's, well, gone. Paul Goat Allen
Publishers Weekly
Former FBI profiler Pierce Quincy's marriage is on the rocks, but things go from bad to worse when his wife, Rainie, goes missing. A kidnapper soon contacts Quincy with a somewhat unusual ransom demand, leaving Quincy and the investigation team with no choice but to play the kidnapper's game to keep Rainie alive. The story is told from alternating points of view, showing Quincy's efforts to find his wife and Rainie's struggle against her cruel captor. The plot is formulaic and derivative, but the abridgment makes it simple to follow, so listeners should have no trouble keeping up. Kairos's voice is light and pleasant, and while her narration is not superb, it does get the job done. Kairos modulates her voice sufficiently to distinguish between male and female voices, but the accents she attempts are beyond her and come off sounding a bit silly. For the most part, the narration is engaging and effectively propels the story forward, but Kairos-and Gardner-occasionally lays it all on a bit too thick, taking the narrative (and the narration) into the realm of tepid melodrama. Simultaneous release with the Bantam hardcover (Reviews, Nov. 21). (Jan.) Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.
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PI Pierce Quincy is frantic. His lover/partner has gone missing, though her bloodstained car has been located, and a troubled child whose case she has been handling is gone as well. Copyright 2005 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780553902280
  • Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
  • Publication date: 1/31/2006
  • Sold by: Random House
  • Format: eBook
  • Pages: 352
  • Sales rank: 5,050
  • Series: FBI Profiler Series, #5
  • File size: 743 KB
  • Items ship to U.S, APO/FPO and U.S. Protectorate addresses.

Meet the Author

Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner
Lisa Gardner is the New York Times bestselling author of Gone, Alone, The Killing Hour, The Survivors Club, The Next Accident, The Other Daughter, The Third Victim, and The Perfect Husband. She lives with her family in New England, where she is at work on her next novel of suspense.

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Tuesday, 12:24 a.m. PST

SHE IS DREAMING AGAIN. She doesn’t want to. She wrestles with the sheets, tosses her head, tries to keep the dream version of herself from walking up those stairs, from opening that door, from entering the gloom.

She wakes up stuffing the scream back into her throat, eyes bulging and still seeing things she doesn’t want to see. Reality returns in slow degrees, as she registers the gray-washed walls, the dark-eyed windows, the empty side of the bed.

She heads for the bathroom, sticking her head under the faucet and gulping mouthfuls of lukewarm water. She can still hear the rain thundering outside. It seems like it has been raining forever this November, but maybe that’s only her state of mind.

She goes into the kitchen. Note’s still on the table. Seven days later, she doesn’t read it anymore, but can’t quite bring herself to throw it away.

Refrigerator inventory time: yogurt, tuna fish, pineapple, eggs. She grabs the eggs, then realizes they expired two weeks ago.

Screw it, she goes back to bed.

Same dream, same images, same visceral scream.

One a.m., she gets up for good. She showers, scrounges for clean clothes, then stares at her gaunt reflection in the mirror.

“How do you spell fuckup? R-A-I-N-I-E.”

She goes for a drive.


Tuesday, 2:47 a.m. PST


“BABY'S CRYING,” he mumbled.

“Wake up.”

“Mmmm, honey, it’s your turn to get the kid.”

“Carl, for God’s sake. It’s the phone, not the baby, and it’s for you. Snap out of it.”

Carlton Kincaid’s wife, Tina, elbowed him in the ribs. Then she tossed him the phone and burrowed back under the covers, pulling the down comforter over her mocha-colored head. Tina wasn’t a middle-of-the-night sort of person.

Unfortunately, neither was Kincaid. Sergeant Detective, Major Crimes, Portland office of the Oregon State Police, he was supposed to be prepared for these sort of calls. Sound intelligent. Commanding even. Kincaid hadn’t gotten a good night’s sleep in nearly eight months now, however, and was feeling it. He stared sulkily at the phone, and thought it had better be damn good.

Kincaid sat up straight and attempted to sound chipper. “Hell-oh.”
A trooper was on the other end of the line. Had gotten called out by a local deputy to the scene of an abandoned vehicle on the side of a rural road in Tillamook County. So far no sign of the owner at the vehicle’s site or at the owner’s legal address.

Kincaid had one question. “Is the vehicle on public or private property?”

“Dunno.”

“Well, figure it out, ’cause if it’s private, we’re gonna need consent to search the grounds. You’ll also need to contact the local DA for a warrant to search the vehicle. So get the DA rolling, buckle up the scene, and I’ll be there in”–Kincaid glanced at his watch– “fifty-five minutes.”

“Yes, sir.”

The trooper hung up; Kincaid got moving. Kincaid had been with the OSP for the past twelve years. He’d started as a trooper, spent some time on a gang task force, then transferred to Major Crimes. Along the way, he’d acquired a beautiful wife, a big black mutt, and as of eight months ago, a bouncing baby boy. Life was going according to plan, if you included in that plan that neither he nor his wife had slept or chewed their food in over half a year.

Kids kept you hopping. So did Major Crimes.

He could hear the rain coming down in sheets off the roof. What a bitch of a night to be pulled out of bed. He kept two changes of clothes in the trunk of his take-home car. Night like this, that’d get him through the first half hour. Shit. He looked back at the bed with a pang and wished it’d been the baby crying after all.

Moving on autopilot, he dug through the dresser and started pulling on clothes. He was just buttoning up his shirt when his wife sighed and sat up.

“Bad one?” she whispered softly.

“Don’t know. Abandoned vehicle over in Bakersville.”

“Baby, what’s that got to do with you?”

“Driver’s-side door’s open, engine’s still running, and purse is sitting in the passenger’s seat.”
She frowned. “That’s weird.”

“Yeah.”

“Baby, I hate the weird cases.”

Kincaid pulled on his sports coat, crossed to his wife and planted a big one on her cheek. “Go back to sleep, honey. Love you.”

Tuesday, 1:14 a.m. PST
She can’t see a damn thing. Her wipers are on high speed, flailing violently across her windshield. It makes no difference. The rain comes and comes and comes. Bend in the road. She takes the turn a little too late and promptly hydroplanes.

She is breathing hard now. Hiccupping. Is she crying? It’s hard to tell, but she’s grateful to be alone in the dark.

Easing off the gas, she steers carefully back into the proper lane. There are advantages to being out this late at night. No one else on the road to be punished by her mistakes.

She knows where she is going without ever telling herself. If she thought about it, then it would be a conscious decision, which would underline the fact she has a problem. Far easier to simply discover herself pulling into the parking lot of the Toasted Lab Tavern. Half a dozen other vehicles are sprinkled across the graveled lot, mostly wide-cab pickup trucks.

The hard-core drinkers, she thinks. You have to be hard-core to be out on a night like this.

What is she doing here?

She sits in her car, gripping the steering wheel hard. She can feel herself starting to shake. Her mouth is filling with saliva. She is already anticipating that first long, cold sip of beer.

For one moment, she hangs on the precipice.

Go home, Rainie. Go to bed, watch TV, read a book. Do something, do anything but this.

She is shaking harder, her entire body convulsing as she hunches over the wheel.

If she goes home, she will fall asleep. And if she falls asleep . . .

DO NOT climb those stairs. DO NOT open that door. DO NOT peer into the gloom.

There is so much darkness inside of her. She wants to be a real person. She wants to be strong, resolute, and sane. But mostly she feels the darkness move inside her head. It started four months ago, the first few tendrils fingering the corners of her mind. Now it consumes her. She has fallen into an abyss and she can no longer see the light.

Rainie hears a noise.

Her head comes up.

She sees a large figure loom ahead suddenly in the pouring rain. She doesn’t scream. She grabs her gun.

The drunken cowboy lurches past, never knowing how close he came to losing his ass.

Rainie sets her Glock back down in the passenger seat. She is no longer trembling. She’s wide-eyed. Grim-faced. A stone-cold sort of crazy, which is far, far worse.

She puts her car into gear and heads back into the night.

Tuesday, 3:35 a.m. PST
Bakersville, Oregon, was a small coastal town smack dab in the middle of Tillamook County. Nestled in the shadows of the towering coastal range inside Tillamook County. It featured endless acres of verdant dairy farms, miles of rocky beach, and from a detective’s point of view, a growing methamphetamine problem. Pretty place to live if you were into honky-tonks and cheese. Not much else to do if you weren’t, and didn’t the local kids know it.

It should’ve taken Kincaid fifty minutes to hit Bakersville. On a night like this, with zero visibility, slick mountain passes, and driving sheets of rain, it took Kincaid an hour fifteen. He pulled onto the lit-up site, breathing hard and already feeling behind the eight ball.

In the good-news department, the first responders had done their job. Three strategically placed spotlights glared into the night, high-powered beams slicing through the ribbons of rain. Yellow crime scene tape roped off a decent-sized perimeter, outside of which the vehicles were starting to pile up.

Kincaid noted a deputy’s truck, then the sheriff’s, then a slick black SUV with all the bells and whistles, which he figured belonged to the Tillamook County DA. They would need more bodies if they decided to launch a full-scale search, and they would need the forensic lab and Latent Prints to process the scene, but those would be his calls to make.

An hour and forty minutes after the first call out, they were still covering the basics: Did they, or did they not, have a crime? Most taxpayers probably liked to think the police went into these situations full bore. Notify the crime lab, bring in the National Guard, call in the choppers. Yeah, well, those same taxpayers kept hacking away at the OSP’s budget, until Kincaid now had three and a half detectives working for him instead of the original fourteen. Real-world policing meant all decisions came attached to dollar signs. For better or for worse, these days he was operating on the cheap.

Kincaid pulled in behind the monstrous black Chevy Tahoe and cut his engine. No way around it. He opened his door and stepped out into the deluge.

The rain nailed him square on the forehead. For a moment, he paused, steeling himself against the onslaught. Then, his hair was soaked, the water trickled beneath the collar of his Columbia raincoat, and the worst of it was over. He no longer had to worry about getting muddy and wet; he was already there.

Kincaid trudged around to the trunk of his Chevy Impala, pulled out the giant plastic bin containing his crime scene kit, and ducked beneath the tape.

Trooper Blaney trotted over, black Danner boots splashing through the muck. A good doobie, he was wearing full department-issued rain gear, including a black-and-blue OSP jacket that looked like a biker coat gone bad. No one really liked the jacket. Kincaid kept his stashed in the trunk for the rare occasions the press was around–or a superior officer.

Blaney had obviously been standing outside awhile; his coat looked slick as glass beneath the high-powered lights, while beneath the cover of his wide-brim hat, the water ran in rivulets down his square-jawed face and dripped off the end of his nose. Blaney stuck out his hand; Kincaid returned the favor.

“Trooper.”

“Sergeant.”

The Tillamook County sheriff and a deputy had followed in the trooper’s wake. Blaney made the introductions as they all stood in a rain-soaked huddle, teeth chattering, arms tight against their sides for warmth.

Deputy Dan Mitchell had been the first responder. Kid was young, farming stock, but trying hard. He didn’t like the look of things–the open door, headlights on, engine running. Seemed kind of Hollywood to him. So he’d called Sheriff Atkins, who hadn’t been wild to be pulled out of bed on such a night, but had headed down.

The sheriff was a bit of a surprise. For one thing, he was a she–that would be Sheriff Shelly Atkins to you. For another, she had a firm handshake, a no-nonsense stare, and apparently didn’t feel like beating around the bush.

“Look,” she interjected halfway through her deputy’s energetic spiel, “Tom’s waiting”–she jerked her head toward the DA, who Kincaid now saw was tucked back inside his SUV. “We got a search warrant for the car and, per your trooper’s instructions, we’ve confirmed this is public land. Now, I don’t know what the hell happened here, but someone left that car in a hurry, and that’s a source of concern for me. So let’s get this ball rolling, or there won’t be anything left to find but a bunch of soggy police reports.”

No one could argue with that logic, so their little scrum moved toward the car, edging carefully toward the open door.

Vehicle was a late-model Toyota Camry, white exterior, blue cloth interior. Nice, but nothing fancy. The driver had pulled well over, conscientiously trying to get off the road. To the left of the
driver’s door was the winding backwoods lane. To the right was a steep embankment leading up into a heavily shrouded forest.

As the trooper had reported by phone, the driver’s-side door was slung wide open, tip of the door scraping the edge of the asphalt. Kincaid’s first thought was that most people didn’t open their doors that far. Maybe if they had really long legs. Or maybe if they were loading something in and out of the car.

Something to think about.

From this angle, Kincaid could make out the shape of a brown leather handbag sitting in the passenger’s seat.

“Did you check the purse?” he asked no one in particular.

“I picked it up,” Deputy Mitchell reported, already sounding defensive. “To check for ID, you know. I mean, it just seemed strange to find the car, lights on, engine running, door open wide as day. I had to start somewhere.”

“Did you find a wallet?”

“No, sir. But then I opened the glove compartment and found the vehicle registration. I pulled the name off that.”

“Purse was empty?”

“No, sir. Lots of stuff in the purse–cosmetics, pens, PDA, etc. But I didn’t see anything that looked like a wallet. I placed the purse back just how I found it. Swear to God I touched nothing else.”

“Except the glove compartment,” Kincaid said mildly, but he wasn’t really angry. The deputy was right–you had to start somewhere.

The car’s engine had been turned off; the trooper had done it to preserve the tank of gas. Always useful when you found an abandoned vehicle, to see how much gas was left in the tank. But the engine had been running fine when Deputy Mitchell had arrived, and at a glance, there was nothing wrong with the tires. Seemed to rule out pulling over due to mechanical problems.

Kincaid walked to the rear of the Camry, eyeing the fender. No sign of dents or scrapes, though it was hard to tell with everything so wet. He made a halfhearted attempt to look for other tire tracks or footprints. The driving rain had destroyed the ground, leaving nothing but shallow pools of muddy water. Sheriff Atkins’s warning had been on the money, but a dime too late.

He moved to the interior of the vehicle, careful not to touch.
“Owner a woman?” he asked.

“According to the registration,” Trooper Blaney supplied, “name is Lorraine Conner from Bakersville. Sheriff Atkins sent a deputy to the address. No one answered.”

“Do we have a physical description?”

“According to DMV records, she’s five six, 120 pounds, brown hair, blue eyes.”

Kincaid eyed Sheriff Atkins.

“Five five,” she supplied. “I didn’t want to touch anything just yet, but at a glance, the seat looks about right.”

That’s what Kincaid thought, too. Seat was fairly close, about what he’d expect. He needed to check the mirrors, of course, steering column, too, but that’d have to wait until after the lab rats and Latent Prints were done. According to Blaney, the gas tank had registered half full before he’d shut down the engine, so while they’d canvass the local gas stations just to be safe, Lorraine probably hadn’t fueled up recently.

He straightened, blinking his eyes against the rain while the wheels of his mind started to turn.

Kincaid had spent his first three years as a trooper working along the coast. It amazed him how many of his reports had started with the discovery of an abandoned vehicle. The ocean seemed to draw people, speak to them one last time. So they’d drive out to the coast, catch that final glorious sunset. Then they’d lock up their vehicle, head into the woods, and blow out their brains.

But in all of Kincaid’s years, he’d never seen anyone walk away from a car like this–engine idling, windshield wipers beating, headlights beaming.

Deputy Mitchell had been right. The scene was too Hollywood. It felt wrong.

“All right,” Kincaid said. “Let’s pop the trunk.”


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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 19, 2009

    I Also Recommend:

    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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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 25, 2006

    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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  • Posted March 9, 2011

    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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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 16, 2006

    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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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 12, 2006

    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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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 26, 2011

    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!!

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  • Posted August 25, 2011

    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!

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  • Posted April 27, 2011

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    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted March 20, 2011

    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.

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  • Posted March 1, 2011

    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.

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  • Posted October 7, 2010

    A good read!

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

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 27, 2009

    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!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 11, 2008

    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!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted January 3, 2008

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted December 5, 2007

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 8, 2007

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 3, 2006

    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.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 3, 2006

    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!

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  • Anonymous

    Posted April 18, 2006

    Surprisingly good

    I am not a huge fan of mystery novels -- but this one was truly wonderful. Realistic and was SO well written.

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  • Anonymous

    Posted February 21, 2006

    #4 and it only gets Better!

    Great story, Very well written... The fourth and best installment in the Pierce Quincy, Kimberly Quincy, Rainie Conner triad & introduces another character, Mac (a keeper). One has a drinking problem. One gets kidnapped. One gets engaged and someone gets killed. This is an edge of your seat twist and turn mystery.

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