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Nov 06, 2011

Darlene rated it:

This is the second book in the Detective D.D. Warren series, and it is also the second time that I have read this author.

Detective Bobby Dodge is back! I am still confused as to why this series is not named the "Detective Bobby Dodge" series, since his role is more prominent in both this novel and its predecessor, Alone, which I read back in February.

When six bodies are discovered in an underground chamber, Bobby Dodge's first thought is that the crime is remini More...

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Feb 15, 2008

K rated it:

It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this day - the case that nearly killed him and changed his life forever. Now, in an underground chamber on the grounds of an abandoned Massachusetts mental hospital, the gruesome discovery of six mummified corpses resurrects his worst nightmare: the return of a killer he thought dead and buried." "Bobby's only lead is wrapped around a dead woman's neck. Annabelle Granger has been in hiding for as long as she can remember. Her childhood was a blu More...

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Aug 10, 2007

LJ rated it:

HIDE (Suspense-Bobby Dodge-Boston-Cont) – VG
Gardner, Lisa – Standalone
Bantam, 2007, US Hardcover- ISBN: 9780553804324
First Sentence: My father explained it to me the first time when I was seven years old.
*** Massachusetts state police detective Bobby Dodge is called to a Boston PD crime scene. Sergeant D.D. Warren and her team are on the grounds of the closed and crumbling Boston State Mental Hospital. There has been found an underground room containing the bodies of s More...

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Dec 02, 2011

Nicola rated it:

Reason for Reading: I am reading this series but started with book #3, since my sister had the first two books it was the perfect opportunity to catch up with the series.

It is two years after the first book and Bobby Dodge has become a State Police detective. When Boston P.D. uncover an underground pit containing the bodies of six young girls, the similarities to the case in book one are too familiar not to notice. Bobby Dodge and D.D. Warren are partnered up to investigate. Not onl More...

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Oct 17, 2011

Tina rated it:

I hadn't ever read Lisa Gardner before, and only read this one because of my insatiable obsession with Bridget Regan (lol) but now I want to read her other books as well. I can see why she's an award-winning crime/mystery fiction writer - all the twists and moments of shock and suspense certainly lure the reader in. Just when I think some answers have been found, more evidence suggests that the detectives are back at square one. Even at the very end, when I felt everything had all been resolved, More...

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May 09, 2011

Shannon rated it:

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Apr 24, 2011

Tracy rated it:

~*4.5 Stars *~
Taut and Complex Suspense Thriller
Twenty-five years ago, seven year old Annabelle Granger came home from school to find five suitcases packed and her parents urging her to grab just two things to take with her as they fled from their home and the life that they knew. For years they shuffled around the country, leaving at a moments notice, keeping their heads down and changing identity with each location. Annabelle...though she didn't go by that name anymore...never new wh More...

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Mar 26, 2011

Nan rated it:

Annabelle Granger and her parents have led a life on the run since Annabelle was seven years old. She and her parents rarely lived anywhere for more than a couple of years, new names, new identities. She never knew why. Twenty-five years later, her parents dead, she comes back to Boston where she last felt free and comfortable. In Boston she lives in a somewhat reclusive state, just in case. A shocking news report that Annabelle Granger is dead, part of a gruesome crime scene involving six child More...

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Jun 25, 2010

Jmm rated it:

When Tanya Nelson was 7 years old her father told her, “ ‘The world is a system. . . . If you can understand the system, you will survive.’ ” And she had survived. She had survived countless moves to new cities, each time with a new name. She had survived her mother’s alcoholism and suicide and her father’s sudden death when he was hit by car. She had survived never knowing what it was she and her family were running from. And now, it seemed, she had survived her own murder.

On the gr More...

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Sep 13, 2009

Morris rated it:

Annabelle Granger was forced to pick two items from her room and then leave, never to return again. This set in motion a pattern of moving from place to place at a moment's notice. Her father would come in and she would know that she had to leave everything behind and move to a new city, a new identity. She never knew why they had to move around.

Years later, Annabelle is an adult when the body of her childhood friend is discovered with Anabelle's locket. Now she must help the police un More...

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Dec 08, 2011

Agatha rated it:

This is #2 in the Detective D.D. Warren series about a female police detective in Boston who solves mysteries; interestingly, however, this one was mostly about her partner, Bobby Dodge, once a sniper for the Massachusetts State Police and now a police detective on D.D.’s team. (I learned that this series was originally supposed to be about Dodge, but readers found D.D. so interesting that the books evolved to be more about her.) Anyway, in this book, Dodge and D.D. work to solve the mystery s More...

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May 27, 2009

sitirahmah rated it:

A page-turner. I am burning some midnight oil just to know the ending. You will be left guessing right until the last chapter. However, I think the ending lack the KAPOW! effect.

Annabelle Granger and her family has been running away from something or someone all her growing up years. With each move to a new city, comes a new identity (little did she knows that Annabelle is not who she actually is!) The reason to their moving, dies with the passing of her parents and she was left wan More...

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Aug 12, 2011

Jen rated it:

This book came to me with recommendations from both my Mom and Dad, which led me to believe it was definitely going to be worth my time.

Hide is 310 pages where you don't want to do anything else but keep reading, so beware! My favorite books are tapestries of characters and information, and Gardner weaves a beautiful, complicated (but easy to follow) and colorful one. She introduces a wide variety of characters yet manages to keep them all clearly defined. You're never paging back thro More...

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Nov 19, 2009

Michael rated it:

Mass. State Police Detective Bobby Dodge is called to the scene of a gruesome mass murder that took place on the grounds of the old State Mental Hospital. Six bodies of children are found in an underground chamber in a crime that appears to have taken place over twenty five years ago.

One body is tentatively identified by a chain around her neck with the name Annabelle Granger. However, a woman who read about the bodies being discovered, tells the police that she is Annabelle and when More...

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May 16, 2011

Kristie rated it:

Wow! 4.5 stars!!!

Annabelle is only five when her parents tell her that they are moving. She is told she will have a new name and she needs to never mention who she is to anyone, ever. After numerous aliases, cities and states Annabelle, now going by Tanya, has found herself back in Boston, where it all started and the target of an unknown threat.

A bunker is found on the ground of an old Insane Asylum in Boston. Six small female bodies are found and one of them is wearing More...

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Jul 25, 2010

Simon rated it:

What a disappointing book. I'm not sure if I should blame myself for reading this directly after having read Alone (first in the Detective D.D. Warren series) but after having thinking about it for a minute or two, I came to the conclusion that this was just an awful book. I'm not even sure why they call these the "Detective D.D. Warren" series when the main character/detective in the last two books is Bobby Dodge, not D.D. Warren herself.

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Apr 28, 2010

S.D. rated it:

Annabelle Granger’s family has moved around constantly since she was seven. Her father has drummed into his daughter the importance of self-defense, about being prepared, without giving her a hint as to why they have to move every couple years and change their names. Annabelle is now 32, her mother died 18 years previously, and her father died a few years ago. But her fear is part of her life now even though she still doesn’t know what to be afraid of. When the bodies of six girls are discov More...

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Sep 21, 2009

Boof rated it:

Tanya, a young interior designer in her twenties is shocked when she sees in a news article that underground chamber has been found with the bodies of 6 young girls who have been there for a few decades - one of the bodies is found with a silver locket with the name "Annabelle M Granger" on it. Twenty five years earlier, before her family went on the run, Tanya's name was Annabelle Granger, and that was her locket! Annabelle and her family have moved and changed identities so many time More...

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Oct 18, 2010

Holly rated it:

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Mar 21, 2011

noseinbookC rated it:

I really enjoyed this book, so far as to finish it in 24 hours and thinking I should give this a four-star. Then I realized that I won't ever pick this book up a second time. It's like bam, the mystery's solved. We know the answer; no need for a second trip. There are other books that did not have me turning page after page like this one, but they have *something* that draws me back to revisit them again and again later. I think it's the human side, the human interactions and feelings that More...

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Feb 09, 2011

Ashley rated it:

When I started to read Hide the beginning really sparked my intrest. I always wondered what it was like to go into hiding. But after reading the first chapter I wanted to know why her family went into hiding. Finally when the answer came it was clear but then my next question was who was stalking her. The book drew me in more and more and I never wanted to put it down. My intial thought with the case was that I was clueless. Names were being put out but I didn't think they would be it. When I go More...

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Mar 14, 2011

J. rated it:

As a sequel to Alone, Hide is perhaps a bit thinner in plot, but the writing style, technique and intrigue are far superior. There are enough red herrings thrown out throughout the book to keep you guessing, and second guessing, and even creating some of your own possibilities in your head before the answers are finally revealed.

The story starts out a bit slow, and unlike Alone, Gardner is far less rigid with alternating points of view at each chapter change, leaving you guessing fr More...

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Nov 02, 2011

Sarah rated it:

I had hoped that some of the awkwardness with the first book in this series was a matter of it being the first book, but this second book is perhaps even more awkward and it stands out all the more since the author really should know better by now. Granted, I don't know anything about crime scenes and being a cop and whatnot, but the choices that these officers make during their investigation strike me as so unrealistic. I understand that the plot needs to flow and all, and that the author is bo More...

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Aug 09, 2011

Susan rated it:

This is a good book, it grabs you in the first chapter and keeps propelling itself forward all the way through to the end. Never a dull moment. I found myself unable to put it down, and yet there were disappointments in it. I'm not a fan of series and I usually try to avoid reading them. I have read one other D.D. Warren book (why D.D. Warren and not Bobby Dodge? He usually plays the bigger part in the story) and while they were both enjoyable books, they reinforced the reasons why I don't like More...

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Jan 14, 2012

Mindee rated it:

D.D. Warren and Bobby Dodge have been called as an underground chamber on the grounds of an old mental facility reveals the mummified remains of six children. The facts of the case are too closely related to a previous case of the a child named Catherine who was kept underground for twenty eight days by her abductor before being discovered by hunters.

Annabelle Granger has spent her life constantly on the run by her paranoid father never knowing for why they ran. Now grown and her par More...

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Dec 12, 2009

Kath rated it:

I really liked part of the the Bobby Dodge series, Alone and liked this one even better. Bobby Dodge is a great character and I love his partner in crime Dee Dee. Annabelle was an intriguing character and while some of the aspects of her story were a bit unbelievable, this one truly kept me guessing. I thought I had it figured out a third of the way in, only to find out it wasn't the case. I have to agree with some reviewers that the end was a bit anti-climatic and and little odd at the same More...

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Jun 10, 2009

Bob rated it:

PB 451 pages - I turns out that I have read several of Lisa's books. Annabell Granger life has been a series of sudden uprootings as here father suddenly moves his family from city to city and changes names as well. Anabell is now on her own and still fearful of something but not sure what. Detective Bobby Dodge is brought in when Boston PD discovers a underground room on an the grounds of an old mental hospital. The rooms contains 6 mummified bodies of young girls and when one name is publi More...

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Sep 06, 2010

Linda added it

You can run, but you can't hide - at least not forever. That's what decorator Annabelle Granger learns when, after 25 years of changing homes and changing names, she returns to Massachusetts where all the madness began. It's obvious to Annabelle that her parents were protecting their family from something or someone, but never once did they reveal the reason why, and now both have died. Shortly after establishing herself in Boston, Annabelle reluctantly becomes involved in helping the police wit More...

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Feb 09, 2010

Pbwritr rated it:

I really did like this book. Extremely well-written. I specifically picked it up, although I've read other books by her, because I'll be meeting her at a book launch party in a few weeks. Very impressed with the strong writing and characters. A family disappears from Boston years ago, flits from place to place, fake names abound, and finally only the daughter is left. She returns to Boston and a hideous crime scene that's discovered has connections to her. I really had the feeling that her More...

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Jan 12, 2012

Donna rated it:

Annabelle Granger has been on the run with her mother and father since she was 7 years old, but she never knew why. After the death of her mother, she and her father return to Boston, the first home that Annabelle remembers. After the accidental death of her father, Annabelle goes about making a life for herself but is brought up short by a report in the media that a body has been found and has been identified as Annabelle Granger due to a locket on the body. This is the start of the relation More...

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