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[Look For Me] by Lisa Gardner
D.D. Warren series Book #9
3★
The home of a family of five is now a crime scene: four of them savagely murdered, one—a sixteen-year-old girl—missing. Was she lucky to have escaped? Or is her absence evidence of something sinister? Detective D. D. Warren is on the case—but so is survivor-turned-avenger Flora Dane. Seeking different types of justice, they must make sense of the clues left behind by a young woman who, whether as victim or suspect, is silently pleading, "Look for me."So many "Only what if" moments throughout this story. Some readers will find it very disturbing with the children being harmed...an entire family destroyed...and irreparable damage to the soul survivor. I've read this series for years and the cases were always interesting but this one leaves a hollow, dark, uneasy feeling. It's not badly written by any means...and finding out who the killer is becomes a real obsession...at least it did for me. One of the lessons the reader will bring away at the conclusion is that reality can most often be unfair and heart-breaking.
