Gone: An FBI Profiler Novel

This is my seventh book by this author and the fourth in the Quincy series. After a slow start the pace picked up and I could not put the book down until I turned the last page. I was glad that I started early so that I could finish it in one setting. It all began this way; A car belonging to Rainie Connor, ex-deputy sheriff, was discovered on the side of the road during a fierce storm with the lights on, a door open, and the motor still running - her estranged husband, Pierce Quincy an ex-FBI profiler, is a suspect in her disappearance and maybe murder - his daughter, Kimberly an FBI agent, received a call with only static and heavy breathing showing Rainie's caller ID - both Kimberly and her boyfriend, Mac McCormack GBI detective, boarded the next flight from Atlanta - a ransom demand was delivered to the local newspaper - when the authorities failed to follow the instructions in the letter, a seven-year-old boy was also kidnaped. And then . . . With the multitude of characters, the many investigative authorities, and a raft of sub-plots, I give the author kudos for keeping everything deliberate and making it all fit. What an artful body of work. Fantastic. Well done. Author al-Qaeda Strikes Again

I was surprised at the great one liners in this book. Don't get me wrong, Lisa always writes a great page turner mystery, but she never is much on the humor and this one shows her humorous side. We have a retired FBI profiler Pierce Quincy who's worst nightmare comes true. They find his wife's car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver's seat. Now he has all these questions to answer, did his estranged wife give into her drinking and just take her gun and go off to commit suicide? Did Rainie's troubled past finally catch up with? Or could her disappearance be the result of one of the cases they'd been working, one a particularly vicious double homicide that affected Rainie more than others. Could it be the deeply disturbed child Rainie took to 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. The kidnapper keeps sending notes using the names of famous kidnappers that killed their victims. This is a fast paced jaw clenching mystery that accounts for every second of the time. Once you start this book you will not want to put it down.

Former FBI profiler Pierce Quincy has left his wife -- child advocate, ex-police officer and former alcoholic -- Rainie Conner, because she started drinking again. It's a dark night in coastal Oregon when Rainie goes for a drive she doesn't return from. The police find her car with the engine running and Rainie's purse on the front seat. It looks like she's been kidnapped and they call Pierce, who naturally is a suspect. Pierce calls his daughter Kimberly, who is a rising star in the FBI and she shows up with her lover Mac who is a Georgia State Investigator. Someone sends a ransom note, but they only want $10,000 and that doesn't seem right as the amount is too small. Has someone from Rainie's past come back for revenge? Or does somebody want revenge against Pierce? Or is it something more sinister? These are questions Pierce and crew are going to have to answer as they race against time to try and save Rainie. Can they? You'll have to read this delicious thriller to find out. I know that I raced the clock, trying to finish before I had to go to work even as the book raced to its conclusion, one you'll never forget. Lisa Gardner just keeps getting better and better with each book. You can't go wrong with GONE.

Five Mysterious Stars!! The 'first' "Gone" novel of the year arrives with a bang. On a dark night, during a driving rainstorm, a female ex-cop's car is found with the motor running, door open, and abandoned and she is literally.. "gone". Carl Kincaid, an Oregon state Major Crimes cop, gets called into tangled jurisdictions, as crime-fighting members of the missing ex-cops family converge on the scene to take part in the proceedings. One of whom is ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, an immediate suspect, and there the 'mystery novel fun' begins. But let's hope the term "feebie" doesn't catch on, sounds kinda soft. LOL. Page 13 reveals the awful truth about Quincy and his family: leaving those of us who thought "I know where this is going" to wonder "What the..?" This is kinda over the top, for sure, but Lisa Gardner pulls it off. She is a wonderful writer who leaves us in suspense over and over along the way, taunting and tantalizing us. For instance, she tells us something is in a trunk, but let's us stew awhile before revealing what. With new twists and turns, she drags us into some pretty dark corners, opening some old unhealed scars. I like the way we meet Rainie through time-stamped flashbacks right up to the moment she goes missing. Now we know her and we're concerned about her. A fascinating, page turning thriller which kept me up late two nights in a row. Five Huge Stars. (Note: Couldn't the various publishing houses post a listing of proposed titles each year to avoid duplication. Then this year's upcoming "Gone" novel could have been called "Gone Away", "Gone, Gone, Gone", "Gone Again", anything to show some variation. LOL. Anyway, both novels are excellent and worthy of your valuable reading time).