Alone (Detective D. D. Warren, #1)

by Lisa Gardner

Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences.

Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son’s death . . . and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital.

Alone . . . a madman survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he’d done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous . . . and filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance. What brings them together is a moment of violence—but what connects them is a passion far deeper and much more dangerous. For a killer is loose who’s woven such an intricate web of evil that no one is above suspicion, no one is beyond harm, and no one will see death coming until it has them cornered, helpless, and alone.

• ISBN10: 0553802534
• ISBN13: 9780553802535
• Publish Date: 11 January 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
• Publish Status: Out of Stock
• Publish Country: US
• Imprint: Bantam Books
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 324
• Language: English

Reviews

[kimbacaffeinate]

great read, very suspenseful with lots of twist.

[chymerra]

This book was fantastic. From the beginning, where the author described the hell that Catherine went through when she was 12 to the call where Bobby shoots Catherine's husband to the scene where they release the man that harmed Catherine to the end...it was fantastic and a great read.


There were a couple of plot twists in the book. Did Bobby know Catherine before he responded to the domestic disturbance? Is Catherine abusing her 4 year old son? Why is Catherine's son so sick? Did Catherine set the whole thing up? Will Mr Bosu find Catherine? What will he do her when he finds her?


This book keeps you on your toes and you need to read the next chapter to find out the answers to the questions that you ask yourself as you read.

[ibeforem]

This is the first Lisa Gardner book I’ve read, and I thought it was great. It doesn’t have the usual male-lead/female-lead dynamic, and Gardner does a wonderful job of keeping you wondering about Catherine for the entire book. At the end, you’re still not sure about her. This was a suspenseful book that keeps you guessing!