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The Nightmare Thief (Jo Beckett #4)

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Forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett returns in a fourth taut, groundbreaking thriller from Edgar Award winner Meg Gardiner.

Autumn Reiniger expects something special for her twenty-first birthday. Daddy's already bought her the sports car, the apartment, and admission to the private college where she parties away her weekends. Now she wants excitement, and she's going to get...more

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Published July 21st 2011 by Dutton Adult (first published January 1st 2011)

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Feb 26, 2012 Sheila rated it 4 of 5 stars

Another Jo Beckett novel. Jo is a forsenic psychiatrist, whose specialty is as a consultant to the local police station. She is often asked to help determine the psychological status and mind set of individuals who have died. She has been consulting on the recent death of a local lawyer, whose body was found in an abandoned mine in the Sierra Mt. range. Jo contacts a newspaper reporter, Evan who is also trying to determine how he died. Between the two of them, they find new leads. Jo decides to...more

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Aug 06, 2011 Miles rated it 4 of 5 stars

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In the California wilderness no one can hear you scream.

San Francisco Forensic Psychiatrist Jo Beckett doesn’t dissect the body or the crime scene – she dissects a life and a mind, recreating the victim as a person, piecing together the story of their death to get to the truth. And then she goes after the killer.

Autumn Reiniger wants something special for her twenty-first birthday. Daddy’s bought her the car and the apartment, but now she wants excitement. And what Autumn desires, she gets.

Her f...more In the California wilderness no one can hear you scream.

San Francisco Forensic Psychiatrist Jo Beckett doesn’t dissect the body or the crime scene – she dissects a life and a mind, recreating the victim as a person, piecing together the story of their death to get to the truth. And then she goes after the killer.

Autumn Reiniger wants something special for her twenty-first birthday. Daddy’s bought her the car and the apartment, but now she wants excitement. And what Autumn desires, she gets.

Her father signs-up her and five friends for an ultimate urban reality game. ‘Edge Adventures’ alert the SF police that a ‘crime situation’ is underway, so the authorities will ignore any squealing tires or desperate cries for help.

Then – when working on a case nearby – Jo Beckett encounters a group of men carting six sullen college kids to the woods for a wilderness adventure. Suspicious, she takes a closer look. And winds up with an invite to a birthday party she may never leave …

When I began reading The Nightmare Thief by Meg Gardiner – in the very early hours of Saturday morning – I had in the back of my mind the idea that I would read a couple of chapters, put it to bed so to speak and pick up the following morning just like any sane person would do – after all it was the weekend! Two hours and a strong cup of Twinnings tea later I admitted defeat, turned off the light, placed the book on the bedside cabinet and slept!

The opening chapters in any book are incredibly important and given the number of hours - sometimes days - a book demands of us, get it wrong and you’ve lost a potential customer for future publications – obviously very important for serialisations. No such fears with Meg Gardiner’s latest offering however, the opening chapters are full of adrenaline packed scenarios, effortlessly setting the scene all the while building a solid foundation for the skirmishes and twists found later in the book.

The Nightmare Thief sees Meg Gardiner’s leading ladies – Jo Beckett and Evan Delaney - join forces for the very first time in what is Jo Beckett’s fourth outing, although the pair don’t actually have that much face time in this book. They do work well together, albeit from afar, aiding each other’s attempts to secure a satisfactory conclusion to a game that began innocently enough. The question is can their combined power stop the inevitable?

Characterisation is well developed and although Jo Beckett is billed as the protagonist in this series it was Gabe – her boyfriend and National Guard pararescueman - who shone for me. A strong character he manages to exert his experience and personality on the group, a group in serious trouble, as they try to find a way out from a deadly predicament. Jo and Gabe work well together and the relationship is an interesting one that Gardiner develops and explores throughout.

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Oct 21, 2012 Rebecca rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This book felt like a gimmick. Fans of the Evan Delaney books have been waiting YEARS to find some resolution to the cliffhanger of Kill Chain, but Meg Gardiner has moved on to Jo Beckett. Enter: The Nightmare Thief, which promised to include Evan Delaney (and Jesse Blackburn) in the fourth Jo Beckett book. Sounds promising enough, right? Both Evan and Jesse appear in the first chapter, and though things haven't changed between them, Jesse is in town (SF) arguing before the 9th circuit, so we th...more This book felt like a gimmick. Fans of the Evan Delaney books have been waiting YEARS to find some resolution to the cliffhanger of Kill Chain, but Meg Gardiner has moved on to Jo Beckett. Enter: The Nightmare Thief, which promised to include Evan Delaney (and Jesse Blackburn) in the fourth Jo Beckett book. Sounds promising enough, right? Both Evan and Jesse appear in the first chapter, and though things haven't changed between them, Jesse is in town (SF) arguing before the 9th circuit, so we think: yay, at some point, we'll get a scene with them together!! Well, sorry to say, but Evan is a plot device in this book, and over 350 pages pass before Jesse is even MENTIONED again. That's right: he doesn't appear again in the book, is simply mentioned as a motive for something Jo did in the climax. So he's essentially a plot device, too.

The fact that he purposefully appears in the kindle preview made me feel even more manipulated. The only consolation is (view spoiler)

Putting those issues aside, though, I came in not expecting to see much Jesse. Hoping, but not expecting. I thought, maybe I'll fall in love with Jo and Gabe and go back and read the other three books. Yeah, not going to happen. The Nightmare Thief is long, boring, and lacks the fun twists and great characters of the previous books. It does have a psycho as a villain, though! (Wouldn't be a Meg Gardiner book without one, right?)

As far as the plot goes, it's boring. Maybe because things happen too soon so there isn't much room for escalation, I honestly don't know. But I felt like I had everything figured out (or did so pretty early in), so the book didn't feel like a roller coaster ride. Maybe it was because info got repeated several times among the different characters. So by the time Jo figures something out, we already know it via the bad guys AND Evan (for example), so there's no, *GASP OMG* moments. I didn't really feel the "thrill" or "tension" at any point in the book like I do in the ED novels, like I'm on the edge of my seat, not knowing what's happening next. Even the finale didn't really do much for me. The whole book just was a big blah YAWN.

I think part of this also has to do with the characters/storytelling. Although I have my issues for the way Ms. Gardiner breaks the rigidity of the first-person narrative by telling events that Evan isn't there to witness, having her as the narrator really (apparently) affects the enjoyment of the story immensely. You get her personality big time during the telling of the story itself--her sense of humor in particular. The Jo Beckett books are third-person, and so we don't get Jo's personality injected into the prose in the same way we do in first-person. While this is an inherent limitation of the POV, I do think a good writer can still write the third-person narrative around the voice of the particular person whose POV you are in at that moment. However--and maybe this is partially because I haven't read the other books in this series--I didn't feel like Jo or Gabe (or anyone else really, for that matter) was a "real" person. I could be biased, because I read all five ED books in order, but I really felt like there was character development there--especially for Jesse, so that by the time we get to the fifth book, it's obvious they're not the same people they were in book one; I feel like MG really got better with character by the time I got to the last book.

In The Nightmare Thief, I think I didn't feel tension or anxiety while reading because I didn't really care enough about any of the characters. Jo felt like a non-entity. I couldn't really tell you anything about her other than she's a forensic shrink and has brown curly hair, and looks a lot like her sister. Yeah, I know a bit about her backstory (her husband was killed in a medivac crash three years ago and she has a claustrophobia because of an accident that happened, I guess, as a child), but none of this really made me feel like she was a real person. Part of what drives the ED books is the love between Jesse and Evan. Even though they're always fucking things up as far as their relationship goes, that's always there, always strong, and I feel like you get that from book one. Although it's obvious Gabe and Jo care about each other, I never felt that same power in this book. Maybe also because I didn't get a good sense of Gabe, either. He felt pretty stock character to me.

In fact, the only really interesting character in the whole book was Ferd, Jo's neighbor, who is an avid gamer, has a massive crush on Jo, and has a pet monkey.

Generally, this book didn't excite me the way the other MG books have. The characters were flat, the plot was boring, and it didn't have the wit and humor of the ED novels (which is a large reason I enjoy them so much). On top of all this, it felt like putting Jesse in the first twenty pages and including Evan were simply gimmicks to try to get those of us in love with the ED series to jump ship to Jo Beckett.

Sorry, MG. I had put off buying this book for a while because I suspected it wouldn't satisfy my missing Jesse and Evan, and I kinda wish I had stuck to my guns. PLEASE give us another Evan Delaney book - and make sure it has lots of Jesse in it. I resented that Jo and Gabe are so HAPPY and are going to be together and live HEA, but Evan and Jesse can never do that :(.

Big disappointment on many levels.(less)

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Jan 04, 2012 Kirsty (Book - Love - Bug) rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

I struggled with the first 9-ish chapters of this book, whilst Gardiner sets the scene for all the action that is about to unfold. I couldn’t really remember who was who, and thought I wasn’t ever going to really care. However, once we get into the nitty-gritty kidnapping, it turns into a fast-paced action thriller which is packed full of non-stop action that will keep you turning the pages. However, it’s much more action adventure (about survival) than thriller.

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Jan 09, 2013 Red rated it 1 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2013, audio

Why this book sucked:
1. I didn't realize it was a series. So there was backstory I didn't have and it was confusing when the author was talking about people like I was supposed to know them.

2. $20 words in $2 prose. Totally out of place words in a cheap novel.

3. From the little research I did, I don't think Hummer limos usually have a luggage compartment. But this was kind of important, since a dead guy got stuffed in there.

4. [spoiler] What happened to the snakes?? She was carrying them, then...more

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Oct 25, 2012 Mia rated it 5 of 5 stars

I'm catching up on my Meg Gardiner reading. I've read all of her books published before this one. Like all of Gardiner's books, The Nightmare Thief certainly did not disappoint.

While the book remains primarily a Jo Beckett thriller, The Nightmare Thief brings together Gardiner's two heroines -- Jo Beckett and Evan Delaney -- to collaborate on a case. While the collaboration is brief, it is memorable and hopefully a precursor for the future where they will fully collaborate on a case.

Jo's invest...more I'm catching up on my Meg Gardiner reading. I've read all of her books published before this one. Like all of Gardiner's books, The Nightmare Thief certainly did not disappoint.

While the book remains primarily a Jo Beckett thriller, The Nightmare Thief brings together Gardiner's two heroines -- Jo Beckett and Evan Delaney -- to collaborate on a case. While the collaboration is brief, it is memorable and hopefully a precursor for the future where they will fully collaborate on a case.

Jo's investigation into the death of a lawyer leads her and her partner Gabe Quintana to the woods to investigate. While on their way back to report on an important discovery, they run into a group of college kids. For her birthday, spoiled rich kid Autum Reiniger's father hires a recreational company to simulate the ultimate urban crime adventure. Autumn and her friends will get to play out a cops-and-robbers type scenario. Unfortunately for these college kids, their adventure is hijacked by real life criminals with a kidnap crime scenario of their own to play out against Autumn's father.

I've always enjoyed Meg Gardiner's books and The Nightmare Thief is no exception. While it's been over a year since I read one of her thrillers, I have to say this is one of my favorites. I already mentioned how she brought her two heroines together. I also particularly enjoyed how seemingly unrelated events come full circle in the end to tie up the whole adventure into one neat bow.

Stylistically, I've always been a fan of Gardiner's characters. They are largely believable -- capable, resourceful individuals without venturing in the often two-dimensional land of superheroes. The interactions between her characters are also interesting and dynamic. Her scenarios feel contemporary and current-- circumstances I could envision reading in the dailies perhaps.

I definitely recommend this or any other Meg Gardiner thrillers. I will also make a special note to myself to read the next Jo Beckett book and watch out for Gardiner's next books. (less)

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Sep 08, 2011 Dan rated it 4 of 5 stars

Autumn and her friends are in for one hell of an adventure. Or so they thought; on her 21st birthday, her father books an fantasy adventure for her and her friends (hoping it will help her grow up). He had experienced one and thought it would be just what she needed. Except things go wrong and the fantasy becomes reality when the kids are kidnapped for real! The cops were notice din advance that it was a game. But forensic psychiatrist Jo Beckett stumbles across the kidnapped kids while investig...more

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Sep 17, 2011 Shelli rated it 5 of 5 stars

The Nightmare Thief is like a Hunger Games for grown-ups. This being my first novel from Meg Gardiner, I didn't know the characters, though she has three other novels for Jo Beckett, the forensic psychologist that while investigating a murder, gets caught up in an "ultimate urban" reality game. And Evan Delaney, an investigative journalist, who tries to help solve the case on the other end of the danger, has five novels of her own.

The urban reality game sets up a simulated drug deal, manhunt and...more

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Nov 18, 2012 Suzyn rated it 2 of 5 stars

In some ways the plot is cleverly put together, but it is fundamentally a very dull book about characters I don't care about taking unrealistic amounts of physical punishment. The reporter character isn't as funny as the author thinks she is and the doctor and her boyfriend don't have enough depth to have chemistry. There's a wacky guy with a monkey who doesn't have much reason to be there, along with a random guy in a wheelchair at the beginning. My guess is those are tacked on fan-favorite cha...more

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Sep 02, 2012 Stacey rated it 3 of 5 stars

An interesting premise - spoiled rich girl gets a reality-adventure from her dad. He's hoping she learns something and she certainly does. I've read all of Ms. Gardiner's books and she writes well-crafted suspense but this one fell short for me. The growth of rich kid Autumn does not develop credibly, with the ending a little too pat. Jo Beckett and Evan Delaney are both in this one, which I enjoyed, but the sections focusing on them skimmed their surfaces. Nevertheless, even though this didn't...more

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Jun 28, 2011 Pauline rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: first-reads, mystery-thriller-suspense, own

This starts out with your typical daddy's girl backed with a lot of money from daddy. For Autumn's 21st birthday party, her father decides that he is going to give her a scenario in which she will be able to face and defeat her childhood fears. However within a matter of hours the party scenario turns into a kidnapping into a survival situation. Autumn and her friends along with Jo and Gabe have to fight for survival on a mountain.

It was pretty interesting and fast paced though Autumn's father...more

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Nov 15, 2011 Macjest rated it 3 of 5 stars

Spoiled rich girl gets the birthday present of a lifetime. Her daddy signs her up for an urban reality game. The local police are notified so they won't interfere as the "characters" go speeding through the city and pretend they are being chased or kidnapped. Meanwhile, someone has been watching and preparing to really kidnap the rich girl. While all of this is going on a forensic psychologist is out with her boyfriend and they get dragged into the drama.
I couldn't put this book down because the...more

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Aug 23, 2011 Wendy rated it 3 of 5 stars

An interesting plot - a super wealthy businessman decides to give his spoiled daughter an unusual 21st birthday gift - she will have an adventure weekend with her friends where they get to play out a scenario to solve a crime. Trouble starts when a real kidnapping/ransom occurs and the kids quickly realize that people are really getting injured and killed. The book is a quick read and enjoyable. However, there so many characters (the kids, adventure organizers, kidnappers, innocent bystanders, p...more

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Apr 15, 2013 E Wilson rated it 3 of 5 stars

When Autumn's super rich father plans a fantasy reality game for her 21st birthday, it all goes terribly wrong when a gang of ruthless
kidnappers hijack their limo. After the limo crashes the young people find themselves at the bottom of a canyon, some with injuries , no easy way out, and the kidnappers at the top of the canyon wall waiting for reinforcements. Luckily, Jo Bennett and her boyfriend Gabe were in the wrong place at the wrong time and got swept up into the birthday
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Jul 18, 2011 Sara Townsend rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

Shelves: crime

Spoiled rich kid Autumn Reiniger wants something special for her twenty-first birthday. Her millionaire father obliges by arranging the ultimate urban reality game for Autumn and her friends.

Edge Adventures take care of all the game preparations, including tracking Autumn and her friends to get a handle on their personalities, and alerting the police that the game is in progress so they won’t intervene. But someone else has also been tracking Autumn, and decides that the start of the game, with...more

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Jan 07, 2013 Gina rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: female-detectives, library, murder, mystery, mystery-crime, mystery-detective, part-of-a-series, california, psychology, psychological-thriller, romance, suspense, thriller, 2012, book-club, challenges-2012, ccc-club, reviewed, action-adventure, drama, family, fathers, financial-dillemas-fiction, relationships, reporters, self-actualization, friendship

This is another installment of the Jo Beckett series. Jo is a forensic psychologist and consultant to the SFPD and is called in when the cause of death cannot be determined. She examines the background of the victim to see what was going on in his/her life to see if there are any missing pieces that can help the police determine what has happened. In this novel, Jo and her boyfriend and pararescueman boyfriend, Gabe Quintana, are looking into the suspicious death of lawyer Phelps Wylie who was f...more This is another installment of the Jo Beckett series. Jo is a forensic psychologist and consultant to the SFPD and is called in when the cause of death cannot be determined. She examines the background of the victim to see what was going on in his/her life to see if there are any missing pieces that can help the police determine what has happened. In this novel, Jo and her boyfriend and pararescueman boyfriend, Gabe Quintana, are looking into the suspicious death of lawyer Phelps Wylie who was found dead in a remote mining shaft in the nearby mountain ranges. However, during their investigation they are pulled into another heist in which, Autumn Reiniger, the daughter of a wealthy man, is having her 21st birthday party held by Edge Adventures. Edge specializes in role-playing excursions where party members are kidnapped and have to escape from the "bad guys". Autumn's party takes a turn for the worse when a disgruntled ex-employee of her father hijacks the game and makes it all too real. Haugen, the ex-employee, has plans to kidnap Autumn to get a huge ransom from her father to exact revenge. Jo an Gabe are pulled into the situation when they see part of the abduction and sense that something is off. It's a good thing for the party members that they are there when at each turn things look worse. Jo and Gabe are able to calm the friends and help them stay alive in the wilderness with bad guys on their tails.

This also is the fist story where Gardiner's 2 main protagonists meet in a story. Evan Delaney, from her other series, is working on the story of the murder of the lawyer and is critical to helping Jo. The story is written with taught writing and I was anxious to have time to read what was going to happen next. There were some slow parts in the middle when they were trapped in the mountains that just made me want Gardiner to get on with the bulk of the story. I can't wait for the next installment of the Jo Beckett series and I am going to definitely start reading her Evan Delaney books. (less)

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Aug 25, 2011 Once Upon rated it 4 of 5 stars

Fate plays a big part on this suspense thriller by intertwining two separate events that end up being parts needed to complete the final puzzle.

Jo Beckett, a forensic psychiatrist and her partner Gabe Quintana went to investigate the death of an attorney that was ruled as accidental in an abandon mine in the mountains in California. At the same time, Autumn Reiniger the daughter of a millionaire financial investor, received her 21st birthday gift. A reality adventure provided to her and a group...more

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Feb 17, 2012 Serendipityxxi rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition

It was...okay. The story wasn't as thrilling as espoused on the cover (surprise!), the characters took too long to develop to where I might like them a bit, the secondary story with the alternate investigators took too much time away from the action and I was pretty disappointed. Maybe if I had read the Jo Beckett books before this one but given all the time we spent on Jo Beckett I kinda don't get the impression that she's developed as a character a lot in the previous ones. It also suffered fr...more

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Apr 21, 2013 Charlotte King rated it 5 of 5 stars

i LOVE this book. it is definatly a 'thrill a minute'. so many twists and turns. however, if you are looking for something to read that you dont have to think too hard about, you should put this one down and find something else. this is one that needs all your concentration, but it isnt a labouring book.,.. it is fast paced and highly dangerous. i even caught myself gasping at the end of very short chapters.

read but be prepared to not put down until the end.

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Aug 29, 2011 Kat rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Aug 05, 2011 Sue rated it 4 of 5 stars

Scary stuff! Very wealthy dad gives spoiled daughter an "ultimate urban reality" game for her 21st birthday. She & 5 friends will participate in a game where there's a simulated drug deal, manhunt & jailbreak. The police have been alerted it's a game, so when the kids are kidnapped, no one knows they're missing! Things go from bad to worse & other people become involved. Several twists & turns throughout.

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Jul 08, 2011 Joanne rated it 4 of 5 stars

LA college kids go on a 21st birthday pseudo-adventure of cops and robbers for spoiled brat Autumn Reninger. Little do they know Daddy has enemies willing to kidnap and murder to get his money.

The Nightmare Thief delivers on thrills and plot twists. It works as a stand alone novel despite being part of the Jo Beckett series. The climatic scene with Peyton could have been more plausable. Over all a great novel.

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Aug 13, 2011 Evelyn rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: thriller

Dr. Jo Becket, investigating the equivocal death of an attorney with her lover Gabe Quintana, encounters a group of young people who have been kidnapped during a reality game gone wrong. Now they must protect the kids while tying to save themselves,too.

Fourth in the series and brings in Evan Delaney,a character in Gardiner's other series. A good, fast-paced thriller that makes a perfect beach read.

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Jan 06, 2012 stephanie rated it 3 of 5 stars

Shelves: 2011, mystery, series

i didn't even know this was out! it read a little more . . . blah than her earlier books, but i love jo and gabe and april and THE GUEST CHARACTER that i had no idea was showing up, and literally SQUEALED.

it's a good quick read. i love these characters, so i will continue to read everything, but i want some hard hitting mystery again . . . and i want to know more about guest character and cross over character . . . oh meg gardiner, write more fast.

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Feb 13, 2013 Marguerite rated it 3 of 5 stars

Jo Beckett gets into more dangerous situations than any female protagonist I can think of. This time, she and long-time boyfriend, Gabe, inadvertently stumble upon a bizarre kidnapping. The Jo Beckett series tends to have pretty intense life-threatening action scenes and in this book the author outdid herself. Kidnapping, vicious murders,flash floods in gorges, treacherous mountain terrain, greenback rattlesnakes, a cluster of injured privileged young adults and a psychopath and sociopath out to...more

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Dec 23, 2011 Jenna Krichbaum rated it 4 of 5 stars

This book for me had some slow spots toward the middle of the beginning, but toward the real middle of the book it got really really good and the author threw in some really good twists and turns that I could not have expected. That being said, I tore through the second half of the book in just a couple days, where the first portion took me a bit longer. I don't want to give away too much, but if you like suspense and thriller novels, you will love this book.

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Oct 21, 2012 B.G.M. Hall rated it 4 of 5 stars

Another great Gardiner thriller, which manages to combine her Jo Beckett and Evan Delaney characters (resolving one of the unanswered plot threads from Kill Chain). Nice twist on a well-used kidnapping story in that the criminals hijack what appears to be a fake-kidnapping-as-adventure-party to disguise their crimes.

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Jul 28, 2012 Pam rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

This is the first Meg Gardiner book I've read. Has anyone made it into a movie yet? Someone should.

I think it would have helped to have read some of the earlier books, to come into the story with a bit more familiarity with the characters and their previous relationships. Having said that, the story does work ok as a stand-alone. There was more action and less psychology than I'd expected, but maybe the 'psychological autopsy' themes are stronger in MG's other story lines?

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Oct 01, 2011 Dawn rated it 2 of 5 stars

I really like Meg Gardiner, but I've never been a big fan of books where people are out in the wilderness hiding from the bad guys. Sadly, almost this whole book took place in the forest at night. While I did finish it, I know I skimmed a lot, particularly all the details about climbing up the sides of gullys. Just not interesting for a city girl.

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Aug 27, 2011 T. M. rated it 4 of 5 stars

In "Nightmare Thief", Jo Beckett crosses paths with Evan Delany (last seen in "Kill Chain"). Jo's most recent case has her and Gabe heading out on a dangerous trek, which puts them in the middle of a faux-crime spree that turns into a real kidnapping of a birthday party.

Tense and twisting, "Nightmare Thief" keeps you on the edge until the very end.

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Meg Gardiner was born in Oklahoma and raised in Santa Barbara, California. She graduated from Stanford University and Stanford Law School.

She practiced law in Los Angeles and taught writing at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She lives with her husband, Paul Shreve, and their three children near London.

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