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Find Her (Detective D.D. Warren, #9)

Lisa Gardner

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Aug 29, 2020 Jonetta rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Five years ago, Flora Dane was rescued 472 days after her abduction while on spring break in Florida. Severely traumatized, she worked to regain her life over the ensuing months. Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren arrives at a puzzling scene where a man lies dead and the woman responsible stands bound and naked over him. Apparently that man had abducted her and she managed to save herself. When D. D. learns that the woman is Flora, she wonders if the former captive has turned into an avenging angel ...more

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Feb 07, 2016 Kris (My Novelesque Life) rated it really liked it

I had meant to get this review out on time but...alas life got in the way (no regrets though). I came home late last night and after a few chapters my eyes refused to cooperate any further. The large tea I drank before bed didn't help me at all. This morning I woke up and had all the confidence in finishing the book by the afternoon. Then I remembered my DVD from the library was due today so I there went 2.5 hours. I was almost...almost close to finishing by 4pm, but then had to get ready for wo I had meant to get this review out on time but...alas life got in the way (no regrets though). I came home late last night and after a few chapters my eyes refused to cooperate any further. The large tea I drank before bed didn't help me at all. This morning I woke up and had all the confidence in finishing the book by the afternoon. Then I remembered my DVD from the library was due today so I there went 2.5 hours. I was almost...almost close to finishing by 4pm, but then had to get ready for work. Foiled yet again. I manged to get a few chapters in on my 15 minute break and when I came home I was full speed ahead with my reading. At 10:48pm I completed FIND HER by Lisa Gardner!

FIND HER
(D.D. Warren: #8)
Written by Lisa Gardener
2016; Dutton/Penguin (416 Pages)
Genre: series, fiction, mystery, suspense

RATING: 4.5 STARS

In Find Her, D.D. Warren has been sidelined after being injured in the line of duty. In true Warren fashion she loathes her new role and cannot help but insert herself in the field.
Seven years ago, when Flora Dane was a college student she was kidnapped from a beach on Spring Break. Her captor held her for 472 days until she was “rescued” by the FBI. For five years she has been working with a Victim Advocate, Samuel Keynes to gain some normalcy back into her life. She is estranged from her older brother, Darwin who cannot cope with the new Flora and has left for Europe. She also has a strained relationship with her mother who still lives in Maine. Her mother cannot help but worry about Flora living in Boston alone. The only way Flora can feel some normalcy is to dive into cases where other women have gone missing.
Flora takes things into her own hands and is found on the scene of a man who has been burned to death while her own hands bound. D.D. is not sure if she is a victim or a vigilante but she will get to the bottom of this case despite her new duty restrictions. Two other women are missing – but neither been reported missing and just when things couldn’t seem stranger D.D. finds Flora herself is missing – and it’s up to her and her team of detectives to find out what is going on.

I have been a big fan of Lisa Gardner since I first picked up her standalone novel, The Other Daughter. I devoured her Bobby Dodge and D.D. Warren series and then worked my way back through her first series Quincy and Rainie. Please note that characters will appear in other series so it is best to read Gardner’s novels chronologically (year they were published) if like me you must have order and limited spoilers. In this novel, we meet Kimberly Quincy again (from later Quincy and Rainie novels).
Being an admirer of Gardner’s suspense thrillers I figured I was going to get a very clever suspense thriller novel. I guessed there would be late nights and avoidance of things I must do once I start Find Her. Gardner delivers yet again. I like D.D. as she is a no nonsense detective but has this vulnerability that endears her to readers. She is a flawed hero, in my opinion, and I have a soft spot for those kinds of characters. I enjoy the ways she engages with her family and coworkers as we get more of her tough and soft sides. Another thing that Gardner does well is she gives her readers insight to what the victim is feeling and going through in the novel. She uses first person point of view for Flora so we understand what she went through and is still going through. Gardner is great at keeping the momentum of suspense, I found myself wanting to read faster so I could see it all unfold but wanted to go slow and savour the writing. I highly recommend this novel and series to any fan of mystery, suspense or thriller.

***I received eARCs from the PUBLISHER via NETGALLEY***

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Jun 13, 2025 Leslie rated it liked it

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I am sad to say I am only on chapter 8 but it seems we have the old DeeDee Warren back. She was becoming human, but in this book she is back to being her old grating self. I found the parts with her hard to get through. Had the book been more from her POV and less from the victims, I probably would have DNF’d it. Fortunately, it wasn’t.

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