Natalia’s review of Gone (FBI Profiler Series #5) by Lisa Gardner.
From New York Times bestseller Lisa Gardner, 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.
I absolutely Adore Lisa Gardner. She never fails to keep me captivated from beginning to end with her books. Gone didn’t at all disappoint.
This book is part of a series. If you’re a nut like me, you’ll read them in order. However they all can stand alone quite nicely. Gone is Book 6 in the Quincy and Rainie FBI Profiler series. In this book, Quincy and Rainie have been married for 2 years and together for 8. They are not at the best point in their Marriage. Their attempt to adopt a child fell through and they are working a particularly heart wrenching homicide. All that pressure does not bode well for their communication. When Rainie’s car is found on the side of the road with blood stains and no sign of her, things take a turn for the worst.
I wasn’t sure at the beginning of this book. I read many series that go on for too many books, and I’m always afraid that a series I love is going to turn in to one of those sour grapes. Also in my mind I was thinking that Rainie and Quincy are always having one problem or another and wondering if that was healthy. I was proved wrong though. While reading the book, I got a deeper understanding of what Quincy and Rainie have been threw in their lives. It has all been sad and traumatizing for both of them to say the least. I realized that they are too wounded survivors that are trying to make the love they have between them work the best way they know how. Contrary to what I suspected, it actually does work for them.
The mystery was fantastic as always. I won’t say much about it because I don’t want to spoil it, but I have to say that I never imagined who the kidnapper was. I finished this story a couple hours ago and in my mind I’m still going, “Huh?” every time I remember who it was.
I know there is one book left in this series. I am looking forward to reading it, although I’m sad that the focus won’t be as much on Quincy and Rainie. Still, I like to imagine that they are getting time to be happy, which they have beyond earned. I think I’ll remember this book for a long time if not forever. It taught me one of the most important lessons of life.
“Dying isn’t the ultimate cruelty. It is all the unfinished business a person’s death leaves behind.” A quote like that one reminds us to enjoy each day as though it is our last one with those we love. Then, if it happens to be our last, we will be spared from that ultimate cruelty.
Grade: 4 out of 5
This book is available from Bantam. You can purchase it here or here in e-format.