From My Blog....[return][return]Live To Tell by Lisa Gardner is a riveting, gripping, edge-of-your seat suspense novel that takes the reader on an intense and emotional rollercoaster ride through the lives of three women with a common bond. A family has been murdered and the Boston Police and lead Detective D.D. Waren are on the case, but who was the murderer? The father, a possible family annihilator, or the mentally ill son? Victoria Oliver is at the end of her tether with her eight-year-old son Evan. She has not had decent sleep since his birth and his behaviour is to the point where she is locking up knives, but one is missing. It is only time before he does permanent harm to his mother or someone else, but what is she to do? Finally, there is Danielle Burton, a pediatric psych nurse who works on the lockdown ward with severely damaged children with a secret past she keeps trying to repress, bearing the guilt of a sole survivor. Live To Tell grabs the reader from the first sentence and holds on until the very end. I am already waiting for Gardner’s next book due out in 2011. Gardner has an excellent command not only of her characters, but of their inner-most feelings so well the reader will identify with, be horrified by, and feel compassion for them. I could not believe how the time flew by as I turned page after page unraveling stories inside stories. Without reservation, I recommend Live To Tell to any reader, especially those who enjoy an excellent mystery/suspense novel.