A really good book by Gardner. I have read and loved all of her books and think she writes terrific psychological thrillers.

Back Cover Blurb:
Annabelle Granger has spent her life on the run, her childhood a blur of new places and fresh aliases. Now thirty years old, she is living quietly in Boston - until she opens the morning paper and finds herself declared dead.
At an abandoned mental institution, the bodies of six girls have been discovered. And one of them is wearing Annabelle's locket. Working with detective Bobby Dodge to unravel a decades-old riddle, Annabelle embarks on a desperate collision course with her past - where a killer has been waiting years to find her, and there's no place left to hide. ( )

Bobby Dodge, St. Police Det. in Mass. is called to the scene of a gruesome mass murder. Six bodies of children are found in an underground chamber on the grounds of the old State Mental Hospital.

One of the bodies is tentatively identified as Annabelle Granger, by a chain around her neck. However, upon reading the story, a woman tells the police that she is Annabelle and she had given the locket to her friend, Dori Petracelli, when she was age seven.

Annabelle also bears a striking resemblance to another woman who was kidnapped and placed in an underground chamber. Luckily, some hunters heard this woman's cries and rescued her. She testified against her abductor and that man was in prison when these girls were murdered.

After hearing her story, authorities feel that Annabelle had been targeted by a preditor and her family moved away to protect her.

The investigation moves to the mental hospital and prior patients. Two men appear as good suspects and the reader learns what these men did, to be placed in the facility. Now, it's been twenty five years and the police have a difficult time finding the men.

Lisa Gardner creates suspense as if she were a chef preparing for a great meal. The ingridents are placed in a manner that the suspense mounts in a breathtaking manner as we reach the novel's conclusion. The author also provides a surprise that was excellently described and perfectly appropriate. Annabelle is a sympathetic character who grows in self confidence as the story progresses. The antagonist was cleverly hidden. The reader will have to read the novel to determine for themselves.

Highly recommended. ( )

Six mummified corpses are found in an underground chamber on the grounds of an abonded mental hospital. Detective Bobby Dodge worked, unsuccessfully, a similar case and this find re-opens his old one. Their only lead is Annabelle Granger who was forced to move along with her parents often and assume new identities regularly. She never knew what the family was running from (her parents have now both passed away). One of the unearthed bodies is wearing a necklace that Annabelle had given a friend for safe keeping. She begins receiving small gifts from an unknown person. Is the killer on Annnabelle's trail? Read and find out how the plot unfolds. ( )

Annabelle Granger was forced to pick two items from her room and then leave, never to return again. This set in motion a pattern of moving from place to place at a moment's notice. Her father would come in and she would know that she had to leave everything behind and move to a new city, a new identity. She never knew why they had to move around.

Years later, Annabelle is an adult when the body of her childhood friend is discovered with Anabelle's locket. Now she must help the police unravel the mystery of her past in order to solve the murder of her childhood friend and save her own life.

My first novel by Lisa Gardner was The Neighbor earlier this year. I enjoyed it so much I decided to go back and see if her earlier novels were of the same caliber. I was very pleased with Hide. I will say that I liked The Neighbor better, but this one is well worth your time.

Lisa Gardner is able to keep your attention throughout the entire book. She not only weaves intricate murder plots, she builds suspense with her character building as well. I applaud the fact that she writes truly good detective novels without having to throw in a lot of graphic sex scenes. I am not saying that I hate this kind of book, just that it is refreshing to have a different type of crime novel from time to time.

I enjoy the fact that her writing can pull at my heart and give that fast paced thrill of a whodunnit all in the same book. There are plot twists and unexpected turn throughout. This is not a cookie cutter, murder by numbers kind of story.

To wrap up, I enjoyed the book and will go out and get the first novel to feature detective Bobby Dodge, Alone. ( )

ananabelle grangers family move from town town and always change thier name. Her parents die and she doesn't know who she is and why they were moving around. It turns out a sicko, her dads brother want to kill her. ( )