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kommer älska Anmäl dig till LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. This is the first Gardner book I have read, and I liked it. The action and suspense were fast-paced. Rape and murder are never easy to read and this story is not any different. Yet I continued to read and finish the book. I'll check out her other books. (  ) kathythebookee | Aug 19, 2009 |  This is a fast-paced and tense story about 3 women who all survived being attacked by the same serial rapist. Their persistence and public presence led police to a suspect who was arrested and charged with the crimes. On the day his trial was to begin, he was assassinated while being transferred from the prison van into the courthouse. That night, another woman was raped and murdered, with evidence at the scene pointing to the dead man. Since the shooting occured at the courthouse, the state police automatically had jusisdiction, and the case was assigned to an investigator on his first day back on the job from an 18-month absence. We gradually understand the whole reason for the extended leave, but we know in the beginning that it was related to his wife's death and a particularly nasty case involving a serial killer. As the state investigator teams up with the city police detective in charge of the rape cases, and working together with the surviving women, the relationship between the murder of the rape suspect, and the ongoing rape case become increasingly clear. I don't think I've ever read anything by Gardner before, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will be looking for more by her. The story seems well-researched and seems tightly written. It was a great beach read (  ) sjmccreary | Aug 3, 2009 | I'm addicted to buying trashy novels in airports. There wasn't much to choose from in the Maui airport, so I picked an author that I hadn't read before. Certainly her writing style is quick and clever. Her characters are individual and understandable. But for heavens sake, can't we have one thriller WITHOUT a smart, manipulative psychotic criminal who organizes crimes in order to "get back at" the police. If they were so smart, why didn't they disappear before they got caught? This is the story of three women with secrets who survive vicious assaults and rapes. They band together and lead the police to a subject who is to go on trial today. But the suspect is killed by a professional assassin who is then killed by a car bomb. Did one of these women hire a professional killer to spare themselves a trial? No. All of these complex crimes are actually the plan of a master criminal who is targeting the detective who arrested him. Well written trash is still trash. This story is unnecessarily complex and centers on an unbelievable villain. The detective is too smart and too good. The victims too easily satisfied. The good and the evil too easily separated. If I want to read about psychotic killers, next time I will find another author with characters painted in shades of gray. (  ) kd9 | Feb 27, 2009 | WOW! This is my first novel I've read of hers. I will certainly be starting a collection. I had trouble putting it down and she pulled me into madness! Go to her website! I love 'Kill a Relative/Maim a Friend' (  ) FutureBestSeller | Aug 17, 2008 | I loved this book right up until the end, then it got a little unrealistic. Gardner is still a great storyteller. ( ) bikehutch | Nov 11, 2007 |  inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0553584510, Mass Market Paperback)One of today’s most electrifying suspense novelists, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner returns with a shattering thriller that dares to play on our deepest vulnerabilities. In this masterful new novel, the killer may very well be the one you sympathize with the most....THE FIRST RULE IS NEVER BLAME THE VICTIM. They survived what no woman should ever have to endure. Now these three women have the means, the opportunity, and the perfect motive. Are they trying to get away with murder--or is someone trying to make sure that this time they don’t get away at all? The Survivors Club. . .that’s what Jillian Hayes, Carol Rosen, and Meg Pesaturo call it. They won’t consider themselves victims. They are survivors. They faced the blazing headlines and helped lead the investigation that caught the man who changed their lives forever. And now that Eddie Como, the College Hill rapist, has been murdered, shot down outside a packed courthouse moments before his trial was about to begin, all three women are openly ecstatic that he’s dead. They are also the prime suspects in his murder. Detective Sergeant Roan Griffin knows all too well what can drive even the best people to cross the line. But he has never seen a case quite like this one. No one doubts that the murder of Eddie Como was a professional job, especially when the gunman is killed only blocks away from the shooting. But questions taunt Griffin: Who ordered the deaths of Eddie Como and his killer? Could three ordinary women have been driven to do he unthinkable? Had someone in the Survivors Club become a killer? Griffin seeks the truth--and finds himself confronted with the leader of the Survivors Club. Jillian Hayes is beautiful, successful, cool as ice, and she harbors a pain that mirrors Griffin’s own. Did the horror of what happened to her push her over the thin and desperate line that separates survival and revenge? And if it did, could he blame her--or anyone in the Survivors Club? Then another woman is brutally attacked. Suddenly, with the city on the ragged edge of panic, gripped in a media and political firestorm of controversy, cover-up, and conspiracy, the hunt is on for a ruthless and cunning killer. For Griffin, this may well be the case that shatters his career. For Jillian, the harrowing nightmare is beginning all over again. Someone is out there. Someone who wants to finish what was started. Someone who wants to make sure that no one survives the Survivors Club. From the Hardcover edition. (hämtat från Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:58:18 -0400) Första testrundan har stängts. Gå till Open Shelves Classification-gruppen om du vill veta mer. |
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