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May 21, 2011

Michael rated it:

Wow what a great read and another classic from Lisa Gardner Detective D.D. Warren series. The story of a seemingly perfect family, the loving couple Sandra and Jason Jones and their four year old daughter Clarissa. Everything seemed fine with both parents working and with plenty of money life was good till one night Jason comes home from work to find his wife is gone.

Once D.D. Warren and her partner Brian Miller get the call for the case it seem's obvious Jason has killed his wife as More...

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Feb 13, 2011

box5angel rated it:

Oh my goodness, this book had me guessing till the end. I could not put it down. Fantastic story.

This is the third book in the Detective D.D. Warren series. And my first time reading Lisa Gardner. Lately, I've always said that I wouldn't start a book in the middle of the series, always from the beginning but I had to read this. lol Glad I did. It was in the third person and not a lot of point of view from D.D. And I didn't get that much insight into who she was as a cop. Some I did More...

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Jan 02, 2010

MJ rated it:

Jason Jones arrives home one night from work to discover his house locked up and his wife missing. Her purse and clothes are all still in the house but Sandra is gone; their 4 year old daughter still sleeping in her bed. Detective Sergeant Warren knows Jason is responsible for his wife's disappearance but can not prove it.

This was a good book by page 4 I was hooked. I never know what was going to happen until it happened. Everyone has secrets in this book even 4 year old Ree. Did Re More...

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Jan 19, 2012

Themistokeles rated it:

Inhalt: Sandra Jones verschwindet mitten in der Nacht aus ihrer Wohnung in South Boston. Sandra ist hübsch, blond, liebevolle Ehefrau und Mutter, Lehrerin, beliebt bei ihren Schülern. Die einzige mögliche Zeugin ist ihre kleine Tochter Ree, die mit ihr zusammen in der Wohnung war. Bemerkt wurde ihr Verschwinden von ihrem Mann Jason, der nachts arbeitet und bei seinem Eintreffen zu Hause Sandras Verschwinden bemerkt haben will. In der Wohnung deutet jedoch außer einer kaputten Nachtischlampe nich More...

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Dec 13, 2011

Xirxe rated it:

Hmmm, ein spannender Krimi (Thriller?) mit einem Schluss, der mich jedoch etwas unzufrieden zurücklässt. Nicht dass es an Aufklärung fehlt, aber einige der Erklärungen wirkten auf mich doch etwas weit hergeholt.
Scheinbar ohne jeden Grund verschwindet plötzlich die schöne junge Ehefrau und Mutter Sandra und lässt ihr geliebtes Kind allein zurück. Mord, Entführung oder war sie plötzlich ihres Ehelebens überdrüssig? Da es keine klaren Zeichen eines Einbruches oder Kampfes gibt, deutet alles a More...

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Sep 03, 2011

CJ rated it:

Jason Jones and his wife, Sandra, appear on the outside to have the perfect marriage and family. But when Sandra disappears and is presumed dead, something doesn't sit right with Sergeant D.D. Warren of the BPD. (Does it ever?) It's just a little too perfect. The focus of her investigation immediately centers on Jason, the grieving husband, who is desperately trying to keep his emotions in check and protect those of his vulnerable 4-year-old daughter, Ree. But, right or wrong (she's usually wron More...

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Jun 28, 2011

Eshamcd rated it:

Breathtaking, hollowing, and well-crafted, "The Neighbor" is a must-read for mystery or thriller lovers.
Keep in mind this is my first Lisa Gardner novel, but I'm positive it won't be my last.
When pretty, young & blonde schoolteacher Sandra Jones goes missing one morning, Detective Sergeant D.D. Warren is ready to crack the case. However, husband Jason Jones is less than willing to cooperate with the police- leaving D.D. reeling with his cool, collected state. Where's the gr More...

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Apr 16, 2011

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Feb 27, 2011

Wanda rated it:

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Jul 06, 2010

Dlora rated it:

This is an uncomfortable book to read because it deals with abuse and sexual predators. The story begins with the disappearance of Susan, a young, pretty housewife, and the longer she is missing, the more likely it is that she has been murdered. Her young child was the last person to see her alive but her father is being very uncooperative with the police and very protective of his little girl, which of course makes him their number one suspect. Clarissa is a wonderful, realistically drawn littl More...

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Jun 17, 2010

Rebecca rated it:

When a mother of a four-year-old daughter goes missing without a trace from her South Boston home, the media is quick to pounce upon what might become an explosive story. Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren is called in to investigate the case and soon learns that husband Jason Jones is less than forthcoming in sharing information about his missing wife Sandra. With nothing to go on but a slightly bloodstained quilt and a daughter - who D. D. is certain has been coached, or threatened, not to talk More...

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Jun 09, 2010

Jlaurenmc rated it:

I have developed a whole new appreciation for audiobooks in the last week. I checked out both Patricia Cornwell's At Risk and Lisa Gardner's The Neighbor. I was prompted to do so by a post I read about joining tracks together to make it easier to transfer audiobook CDs to my iPod. To be honest, I had never thought of doing such a thing -- I assumed the audiobooks at the library were somehow protected from being copied. According to reputable sources, however, burning an audiobook to your iTunes More...

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Jun 09, 2010

Denise rated it:

4.0 out of 5 stars What happened to Sandra Jones?, November 10, 2009

This review is from: The Neighbor (Hardcover)
This is an entertaining, fast paced mystery thriller that delves into possibilities surrounding the middle-of-the-night disappearance of a young, pretty wife and mother. Sandra Jones, a teacher, vanishes while her husband, Jason, is at work leaving her purse and cell phone on the counter and her precious daughter, Ree asleep in her room. When the police arrive for More...

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Jan 16, 2010

LJ rated it:

First Sentence: I’ve always wondered what people felt in the final few hours of their lives.

Detective Sergeant D.D. Warren works homicide and isn’t usually called out on a missing person case. From the start, this one feels different.

Journalist Jason Jones returned from work to find his wife missing but didn’t notify the police for three hours. Their four-year-old daughter clearly saw something, but the husband is less than cooperative with the police and becomes the More...

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Dec 12, 2009

Darcy rated it:

This book grabbed me right from the start. I really liked the portions that were Sandy's. We learned so much about her life growing up. Some of the things I had guessed, but some of them really threw me. I also like the slow glimpses into Jason's past. I figured out pretty early what had happened to him. They both had so much in common it would have solved so many things if only they could have talked to each other.

Sandy's disappearance was hard. I couldn't figure out what was More...

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Sep 03, 2009

Diane rated it:

Having read most of Lisa Gardner's books,
I was anxious to read her latest book:
The Neighbor.

This audio book thriller hooked me from the very beginning. Not one, but three wonderful readers, made the listening experience a real treat (Emily Card, Kirby Heyborne, and Kirsten Potter). This audio book thriller hooked me from the very beginning. Not one, but three wonderful readers, made the listening experience a real treat (Emily Card, Kirby Heyborne, and Kirsten Pott More...

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Jun 14, 2009

Cheryl rated it:

Nothing gets the police and media's attention faster then the disappearance of a woman from her home in the suburbs.

Jason Jones works as a news reporter for the Boston Daily news. He comes home around 2 am to find his four year old daughter, Clarissa "Ree" Jane asleep in her bed but his wife and their cat Mr. Smith are both gone. Jason has no clue where Sandra is other then the fact that something bad has happened. The bed sheets have been stripped off the bed and there is More...

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Feb 27, 2011

Simon rated it:

I would like to start out that I thoroughly Another mystery, another case of whodunnit and why. It's just frustrating when the author loves to use the pedophiles and early child abuse theme over and over again in many of her books. I think we get it. Pedophiles are bad people and children who were abused when they were growing up turn out to be weird and tend not to show a lot of emotions. We honestly do. The author seriously needs to use a different theme for her mystery books because it's tire More...

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Sep 18, 2009

Becky rated it:

Wow - I started this book not really remembering if I'd loved the last Lisa Gardner book I'd read (Say Goodbye). However, Lisa Gardner is now going to be on my top favorite authors lists.

In The Neighbor Gardner brings on the suspense and never lets you get comfortable. She also is really good at keeping a secret; I had no idea how the book was going to end until the end. I admire how well she writes her characters, how separate and unique each is. One of the characters is a register More...

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Aug 11, 2009

Bob rated it:

Reg Print 368pgs This was an interesting read with regular narrative interspersed with several of the characters thoughts about what was happening to them. The basic plot is the disappearance of a young mother and new school teacher from her south Boston home. She and her older reporter husband work opposite shifts and when he come home and finds her gone and the 4yr old daughter alone in the house he searches and the calls 911. Sgt. D D Warren gets the case and she suspects the husband who More...

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Sep 05, 2010

Sandra rated it:

Not a bad read. Very twisted plot, and we didn't get all the pieces till the end. Sort of how I judge a mystery's excellence. This will sound weird, but one of the characters was a registered sex offender. For having been in love with a 14 year old girl,when he was 19, and apparently she also was in love with him. Yes, they had sex. What a sad life he later lived, as a RSO, 2 yrs in jail, weekly meetings, on and on and on. The first person to be of interest when an older beautiful 23 year More...

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Oct 28, 2009

Michael rated it:

4 1/2 Stars!
Sandra Jones puts her daughter, Ree, to bed and goes to her own bed. Then she hears a sound coming from the stairs...When her husband, Jason, comes home from his night shift job at the newspaper, Sandra is gone.

Sgt. Detective D.D. Warren, last seen in Gardner's 2007 novel, "Hide" knows that the spouse is always the prime suspect when the other spouse goes missing or is killed. Now, when she attempts to interview Jason, he is uncooperative, almost nonshala More...

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Jun 17, 2009

Crystal rated it:

The Neighbor by Lisa Gardner
rating: 4.5 of 5 stars

From the back of the arc:

This is what happened...

It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy--a young mother, blond and pretty, disappears without a trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness and her handsome, secretive husband as the prime suspect.

In the last six hours...

But from the moment Dectective Se More...

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Jun 30, 2009

Laurel-Rain rated it:

When a young wife and mother disappears one night, several possible suspects begin to emerge. Of course, the husband is the first “person of interest,” soon to be followed by the neighbor—a registered sex offender—with a charming southern grandfather taking up a third position. And the four-year-old daughter Ree is seemingly the only witness.

Boston police officers and the media camp out on the street. As facts begin to surface, more and more confusion ensues. It seems that Jason More...

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Jun 27, 2011

Joanne rated it:

The Neighbor is one in a series of mysteries from Lisa Gardner. Because I get my books from the library, they don't normally come in consecutive order and that was true here. I think this is one of the newest books. That didn't seem to cause a problem. I didn't feel that I had missed much by not having read the previous books. The story is about a seemingly perfect family and what happens to them. I was surprised that there wasn't more about the detective, D. D, Warren, since she is the pe More...

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Sep 05, 2011

Jeremy added it

"The Neighbor" was recommended to me by my mother. She has read many of this author's books and she thought I would like this one.This book had many twists and turns. When you first hear about what happened and that the wife was missing you think a stranger came in and kidnapped or killed the mother. But later on, the husband discovered that his wife was missing,he started acting strange. He was not very cooperative with the police, but he supposedly had an airtight alibi. The nex More...

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Jul 09, 2009

Megan rated it:

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Aug 02, 2011

Lori rated it:

This is my favorite Lisa Gardner book by far. I can honestly say the I usually have the main points figured our pretty quickly but this one kept me wondering all the way through. Why did this happen? Who did this? What was that for? Why? Who? Is he good? Is he bad? Dead? Alive? I kept asking these things over and over through the whole book. And, honestly, after contemplating all of the possibilities, i was still surprised by the end. And that I love. The characters are surprisingly complex and More...

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Nov 26, 2010

Carol rated it:

This book delivers; suspense, mystery and entertainment are done well. All of the characters were well developed psychologically and believable. The author knows police procedures and describes sexual offenders carefully. My knowledge of people who commit sexual abuse and violence against children was minor but I learned from author and also about different programs such as Pascal and Encase that can crack open the information deleted from computers and how they work in general. When a young mot More...

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Sep 29, 2009

Carol rated it:

I picked up Neighbor by Lisa Gardner on the recommendation of bas bleu. We often enjoy the same books and have had lively conversations about some over the years. I love that we can talk about books and respect each other's opinions.
Neighbor grabbed me from the get go with it's thought provoking first sentence.

"Ive always wondered what people felt in the final hours of their lives".

Neighbor is a psychological thriller with lots of great characters wit More...

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