New Releases by Lisa Gardner

Un fait divers dans une banlieue résidentielle de Boston passionne les médias. Sandra Jones, jeune maîtresse décole et mère modèle, a disparu. Seul témoin : sa petite fille de quatre ans. Suspect No1 : son mari Jason. Dès que linspectrice D.D. Warren pénètre chez les Jones, elle sent que quelque chose cloche : les réticences de Jason à répondre à ses questions, son peu dempressement à savoir ce qui a bien pu arriver à son épouse "chérie"... Tente-t-il de brouiller les pistes ou cherche-t-il à protéger sa fille, à se cacher ? Mais de qui ? Après avoir lu ce suspense, vous ne regarderez jamais plus une porte déverrouillée, une fenêtre entrouverte ou une page Web de la même façon... Les fans de Sauver sa peau apprécieront cette nouvelle enquête particulièrement surprenante de la non moins surprenante D.D. Warren ! "Certainement le suspense le plus complexe de Gardner. Un régal." Booklist "Une de ces énigmes élégantes quil est parfaitement impossible de résoudre avant la révélation finale." Book Reporter.com

When Justin and Libby Denbe, along with their beautiful 15-year-old daughter, disappear, investigator Tessa Leone must race against time to expose the Denbes'' darkest secrets to discover who would want to kidnap such a perfect little family and just how far they are willing to go.

Il sait tout de vous. Même l''endroit où vous irez vous cacher... Une nouvelle enquête de l''enquêtrice D. D. Warren au coeur des ténèbres du passé. Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle Policier 2011, l''Américaine Lisa Gardner s''impose plus que jamais comme une des nouvelles reines du suspense. « Exceptionnel. » Publishers Weekly Dans la pièce, cinq corps. Ceux des membres d''une même famille. Une balle dans la tête, le père respire encore faiblement. De toute évidence, cet homme couvert de dettes a décidé d''assassiner les siens avant de se donner la mort. Appelée sur les lieux, l''enquêtrice D. D. Warren comprend immédiatement que l''affaire est plus compliquée qu''il n''y paraît : sur la table du dîner, six couverts avaient été dressés... Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle Policier 2011, Lisa Gardner excelle à construire des intrigues complexes, qui piègent le lecteur. Quand il croit avoir enfin découvert la vérité, le sol se dérobe sous ses pas. Un suspense glaçant qui nous plonge dans un monde inconnu et bouleversant.

Detective D. D. Warren has four days to stop a killer in this “shocking…‘must read’”* from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner—one of Library Journal''s Best Thrillers of the Year. Charlene Grant believes she is going to die. For the past few years, her childhood friends have been murdered one by one. Same day. Same time. Now she’s the last of her friends alive, and she’s counting down the final four days of her life until January 21st. Charlene doesn’t plan on going down without a fight. She has taken up boxing, shooting, and running. She also wants Boston’s top homicide detective, D. D. Warren, to handle the investigation. But as D. D. delves deeper into the case, she starts to question the woman’s story. Instinct tells her that Charlene may not be in any danger at all. If that’s true, the woman must have a secret—one so terrifying that it alone could be the greatest threat of all. *Associated Press

Packed with the suspenseful storytelling that has made Lisa Gardner a #1 New York Times bestselling author, this thrilling short story reveals new insights into beloved series heroine D.D. Warren... In her seventh month of pregnancy, Boston Detective D.D. Warren should be taking it easy. Instead, she accepts a small consulting role on the set of a serial killer film shooting in Boston. D.D. figures she’ll be useful to someone for at least one night, serving as a police expert and making a little extra money in the bargain.It seems like a simple task—until the previous film consultant, a former Boston cop, is found beaten to death. Suddenly D.D.’s date with Hollywood gets serious. Extremely pregnant, on the trail of a killer, and surrounded by a hundred and four murder suspects in the middle of a graveyard, D.D. must quickly unravel a tangled web of lies. As another cast member is attacked, D.D. realizes that like it or not, her priorities have changed—and her last desperate hope is that she can catch a killer before she and her unborn baby face mortal danger.

“A suspenseful roller-coaster ride.”—Karin Slaughter • “Lisa Gardner always delivers heart-stopping suspense.”—Harlan Coben He knows everything about you—including the first place you’ll hide. On a warm summer night in one of Boston’s working-class neighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: Four members of a family have been brutally murdered. The father—and possible suspect—now lies clinging to life in the ICU. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Veteran police detective D. D. Warren is certain of only one thing: There’s more to this case than meets the eye. Danielle Burton is a survivor, a dedicated nurse whose passion is to help children at a locked-down pediatric psych ward. But she remains haunted by a family tragedy that shattered her life nearly twenty-five years ago. The dark anniversary is approaching, and when D. D. Warren and her partner show up at the facility, Danielle immediately realizes: It has started again. A devoted mother, Victoria Oliver has a hard time remembering what normalcy is like. But she will do anything to ensure that her troubled son has some semblance of a childhood. She will love him no matter what. Nurture him. Keep him safe. Protect him. Even when the threat comes from within her own house. The lives of these three women unfold and connect in unexpected ways, as sins from the past emerge—and stunning secrets reveal just how tightly blood ties can bind. Sometimes the most devastating crimes are the ones closest to home.

When a young wife and mother disappears from her suburban home, it''s not long before the cops have their first suspect: the missing woman''s husband, whose behavior is distinctly suspicious.

Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy faces a race against time when she tackles a disturbing serial killer who routinely abducts two intended victims and leaves on the body of one clues to prevent the death of the other.

The bestselling author of Hide and Gone draws us into the venomous mind games of a terrifying killer. Come into my parlor . . . For Kimberly Quincy, FBI Special Agent, it all starts with a pregnant hooker. The story Delilah Rose tells Kimberly about her johns is too horrifying to be true—but prostitutes are disappearing, one by one, with no explanation, and no one but Kimberly seems to care. Said the spider to the fly . . . As a member of the Evidence Response Team, dead hookers aren’t exactly Kimberly’s specialty. The young agent is five months pregnant—she has other things to worry about than an alleged lunatic who uses spiders to do his dirty work. But Kimberly’s own mother and sister were victims of a serial killer. And now, without any bodies and with precious few clues, it’s all too clear that a serial killer has found the key to the perfect murder . . . or Kimberly is chasing a crime that never happened. Kimberly’s caught in a web more lethal than any spider’s, and the more she fights for answers, the more tightly she’s trapped. What she doesn’t know is that she’s close—too close—to a psychopath who makes women’ s nightmares come alive, and if he has his twisted way, it won’t be long before it’ s time for Kimberly to . . . SAY GOODBYE

The second installment of the award-winning Detective D. D. Warren series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner. There''s no use locking the doors. . . . It was the case that nearly killed him. Now a gruesome discovery in an underground chamber is about to resurrect his worst nightmare. And Massachusetts State Police detective Bobby Dodge has only one lead: a young girl who''s been in hiding for as long as she can remember. There''s no use turning on the light. . . . Her childhood was a blur of new cities and assumed identities. But from whom—or what—was Annabelle Granger''s family hiding? To find out, Dodge must team up with former lover and partner D. D. Warren from the Boston P.D. to track a woman from Bobby''s past who''s every bit as dangerous as the new killer. The trail will lead them to a chilling place where there''s no one to trust . . . and no place left to hide. The killer knows where to find you.

From the bestselling 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.

State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. As the man''s finger tightens on the trigger, Dodge has only a split second to react - and forever to live with the consequences.

A boy confesses to a school shooting in Bakersville, Oregon. Officer Rainie Conner, leading her first homicide investigation, believes he is innocent.

As a heat wave of epic proportions descends, the game begins again. Two girls have disappeared . . . and the clock is ticking. Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy knows she''ll have to break some rules to beat an exactingly vicious criminal at a game he''s had time to perfect.