Hide (A Detective D.D. Warren Novel)

by Lisa Gardner

2008

Status

Available

Publication

Bantam (2008), 480 pages

Description

Fiction. Suspense. Thriller. HTML:You have good reason to be afraid. . . . It was a case that haunts Bobby Dodge to this dayâ??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. Thereâ??s no place to run. . . . Bobbyâ??s only lead is wrapped around a dead womanâ??s neck. Annabelle Granger has been in hiding for as long as she can remember. Her childhood was a blur of new cities and assumed identities. But whatâ??or whoâ??her family was running from, she never knew. Now a body is unearthed from a grave, wearing a necklace bearing Annabelleâ??s name, and the danger is too close to escape. This time, sheâ??s not going to run. You know he will find you. . . . The new threat could be the dead psychopathâ??s copycat, his protĂ©gĂ©â??or something far more terrifying. Dodge knows the only way to find him is to solve the mystery of Annabelle Granger, and to do that he must team up with his former lover, partner, and friend D. D. Warren from the Boston P.D. But the trail leads back to a woman from Bobbyâ??s past who may be every bit as dangerous as the new killerâ??a beautiful survivor-turned-avenger with an eerie link to Annabelle. From its tense opening pages to its shocking climax, Hide is a thriller that delves into our deepest, darkest fears. Where there is no one to trust. Where there is no place left to hide. BONUS: This edition includes a new afterword:… (more)

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LibraryThing member DBower
This was the first book I read by Lisa Gardner and although it took a while for me to get into this book (part of it might have been other distractions) I read the last half of the book in a single sitting. The twists and turns were amazing and when I thought I had it figured out - I was wrong. It
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was so intense that I actually found myself talking outloud while reading the end. I definitely plan to read more of her books.
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LibraryThing member chrissywest
I am a huge fan of Lisa Gardner. And I must say Hide was not a disappointment. The book is the 2nd book from the Bobby Dodge Series. A follow-up to Alone. I do recommend that you read Alone first. It will give you a little more history into the characters and the plot. I found this book to be one
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big puzzle. So many questions to be answered, so much mystery, and suspense. I had a hard time putting the book down. I’m glad I purchased this book in hardcover. It’s a keeper.
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LibraryThing member mniday
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
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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 unravel the mystery of her past in order to solve the murder of her childhood friend and save her own life.

My first novel by Lisa Gardner was The Neighbor earlier this year. I enjoyed it so much I decided to go back and see if her earlier novels were of the same caliber. I was very pleased with Hide. I will say that I liked The Neighbor better, but this one is well worth your time.

Lisa Gardner is able to keep your attention throughout the entire book. She not only weaves intricate murder plots, she builds suspense with her character building as well. I applaud the fact that she writes truly good detective novels without having to throw in a lot of graphic sex scenes. I am not saying that I hate this kind of book, just that it is refreshing to have a different type of crime novel from time to time.

I enjoy the fact that her writing can pull at my heart and give that fast paced thrill of a whodunnit all in the same book. There are plot twists and unexpected turn throughout. This is not a cookie cutter, murder by numbers kind of story.

To wrap up, I enjoyed the book and will go out and get the first novel to feature detective Bobby Dodge, Alone.
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LibraryThing member fw2334
I could not put this book down. It is fast-paced and exciting.
LibraryThing member Jim53
Annabelle's father gave up a professorship and started moving his family from town to town when she was seven years old. Their last move took them back to Boston, whence they started. How is her situation linked to the discovery, in a subterranean room at an abandoned mental hospital, of six little
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girls' bodies neatly stored in plastic bags? Over the course of the novel we learn (eventually) what her dad was running from and how all the stories come together.

The pacing is quick but not the incessant rush of some modern thrillers. We have a chance to learn about, and come to like, Annabelle and the two detectives working the case. Overall a pretty good read.
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LibraryThing member sarafenix
I kept wanting it to end as well as it seemingly started, but it didn't. Oh well, it was a quick read and that's what I needed at the time.
LibraryThing member miyurose
I really liked this. Gardner does a great job of throwing you twists and turns and red herrings. Just when you think you’re getting it figured out, a new detail emerges that changes everything. This was so suspenseful that it had me listening on my morning *and* afternoon commutes — I’m
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usually an afternoon listener only. I’ve liked the Bobby Dodge books a lot more than Gardner’s Quincy/Rainie series — hopefully she’ll write a few more.
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LibraryThing member dbree007
Really good characters and good story line about serial killer of little girls who may or may not still be alive... Haven't read far enough yet. Hard to put down.
LibraryThing member she_climber
Great page-turner. Vaguely remembered the characters from previous books, struggled remembering the previous storyline - although it wasn't crucial to understanding this book. Just would have flowed better.
LibraryThing member misfev
I have read several of Lisa Gardner's books. And while she is not my favorite suspense writer, she can and does write a still very entertaining book. This story is about a girl who grows up moving from town to town always taking on a new identity, without ever knowing why. There are many twists and
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turns to keep you guessing. A satisfying read!
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LibraryThing member BCCJillster
Page-turner that grabs and won't let go. Lots of twists and turns to keep you guessing. One woman has been hiding since age 7, only to have 'her' body discovered in an underground chamber, along with 5 other girls! Now what?
LibraryThing member abookinmyhead
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
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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 wandering why but continue living her life, consistently looking behind her back. Until she reads the paper and found out that she was found dead in an underground chamber.

Who has she been running from all her life? Is it her father? Is it one of the patients from the Mental Institute? Or have they been running from a ghost of her father’s paranoia mind? Is there really somebody out there trying to get her? Or is it just a twisted coincidence of circumstances?

Overall, it’s a good read.
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LibraryThing member sallyaf
This was my first Lisa Gardner book and it was well written with a tense, gripping plot. However, once she introduced a deus ex machina (a person or thing that is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly and provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty) to the plot in the form of
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a long, lost never-before-mentioned relative, I grew dismayed and the novel lost all credibility for me. I felt it was a cheap way out and the ending was laughable, with the strong, well-trained heroine turning disappointingly passive.
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LibraryThing member mikedraper
Bobby Dodge, St. Police Det. in Mass. is called to the scene of a gruesome mass murder. Six bodies of children are found in an underground chamber on the grounds of the old State Mental Hospital.

One of the bodies is tentatively identified as Annabelle Granger, by a chain around her neck. However,
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upon reading the story, a woman tells the police that she is Annabelle and she had given the locket to her friend, Dori Petracelli, when she was age seven.

Annabelle also bears a striking resemblance to another woman who was kidnapped and placed in an underground chamber. Luckily, some hunters heard this woman's cries and rescued her. She testified against her abductor and that man was in prison when these girls were murdered.

After hearing her story, authorities feel that Annabelle had been targeted by a preditor and her family moved away to protect her.

The investigation moves to the mental hospital and prior patients. Two men appear as good suspects and the reader learns what these men did, to be placed in the facility. Now, it's been twenty five years and the police have a difficult time finding the men.

Lisa Gardner creates suspense as if she were a chef preparing for a great meal. The ingridents are placed in a manner that the suspense mounts in a breathtaking manner as we reach the novel's conclusion. The author also provides a surprise that was excellently described and perfectly appropriate. Annabelle is a sympathetic character who grows in self confidence as the story progresses. The antagonist was cleverly hidden. The reader will have to read the novel to determine for themselves.

Highly recommended.
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LibraryThing member mazda502001
A really good book by Gardner. I have read and loved all of her books and think she writes terrific psychological thrillers.

Back Cover Blurb:
Annabelle Granger has spent her life on the run, her childhood a blur of new places and fresh aliases. Now thirty years old, she is living quietly in Boston -
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until she opens the morning paper and finds herself declared dead.
At an abandoned mental institution, the bodies of six girls have been discovered. And one of them is wearing Annabelle's locket. Working with detective Bobby Dodge to unravel a decades-old riddle, Annabelle embarks on a desperate collision course with her past - where a killer has been waiting years to find her, and there's no place left to hide.
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LibraryThing member caroren
Another page turner for Lisa Gardner.  Who is Annabelle Granger and who was her father?  And why did he keep moving his family? You'll never guess!
LibraryThing member SandyLee
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
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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 discovered in an underground chamber on the grounds of a former mental hospital, one of the victims is wearing a necklace with Annabelle’s name on it. Naturally the police are stunned to meet Annabelle and learn Annabelle had given this necklace to her best friend, Dori, when her family first hit the road. D.D. Warren teams up with Bobby Dodge, a state cop, to compare this latest dig with murders from a previous case. Annabelle is the key but she isn’t much help when she realizes Annabelle still isn’t her real name. D.D. Warren is a feisty cop, much like Carol O’Connell’s Kathy Mallory. Another great installment in this series.
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LibraryThing member jmyers24
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
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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 grounds of the abandoned Boston State Mental Hospital six bodies of six young girls are found in six separate clear plastic bags in an underground pit. On one bag is a small silver locket engraved with the name “Annabelle M. Granger.” This is the only clue State Homicide Detective Bobby Dodge and Boston Police Sergeant D. D. Warren have to start their investigation. Bobby recognizes the underground pit as strikingly similar to the pit where twelve-year-old Catherine Gagnon had been imprisoned for almost a month in 1980 by Richard Umbrio, now two-years deceased, having been shot by Catherine Gagnon when he attacked her after his release from prison. The question is: Who killed Annabelle Granger and the other five girls and how do their deaths relate to Catherine Gagnon--and who is Tanya Nelson?

Lisa Garner’s Hide is a truly riveting mystery-thriller that will keep you turning the pages until the very end. The plot is fascinating and complex; the characters are worth knowing; and the pieces do all fit together in the end. This is not a book you want to pick up when you have places to go and people to meet because, I guarantee you, you will want to Hide until the very last word.
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LibraryThing member emigre
Gardner writes books you can't put down. Her other books are just as incredible. This is a classic Gardner tale, all the elements are here: the strong heroine, the wounded hero, the evil villain, plus a subtle romance tossed in so it's not all gory discoveries.
LibraryThing member asomers
Fast paced page turner. The D.D. Warren series has made me a devoted fan of Lisa Gardner.
LibraryThing member evroptmstc
Excellent mystery. Several plot twists and turns--led reader to make logical conclusions to find that they were plausible with the truth very satisfying.

Characters were real and well-defined.

Ending a little predictable as far as the events that unfolded for the main character but mystery
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surrounding perpetrators maintained throughout.

Very enjoyable book.
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LibraryThing member amf0001
I actually don't like serial killer stories at that much, it's a little too much evil for me (I know I'm in the minority here) but kindle had this for 79 cents, and I thought, it's no risk...

Hide is what I think of as a perfect airplane/beach book, confidently written but not so beautiful or
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engrossing that you can't put it down and eat. I could see that some of these characters had appeared in previous books but that didn't bother me, and it gave Bob Dodge a sense of history and depth, and i didn't have to know all the past details. I really liked the start of the book, with Annabelle describing her childhood and her father's thoughts about systems. I was intrigued about how they always had to move, and it pulled me in, I wondered what was going on. I liked and felt for Annabelle’s father even though we only ever see him through her eyes, he was very real and present to me. However once we arrived firmly in the present , it bogged down a bit for me. And then the dĂ©nouement was a bit too slick, and didn't quite work for me.

I enjoyed it while I was reading it, but it won't be something I remember and I don't feel compelled to search out any other Lisa Gardiner books, so I rate it B+ - nothing wrong with it but nothing outstanding either.
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LibraryThing member creighley
Good, fast-paced mystery of child abductions. It had a really good build up, but the ending seemed a little too convenient. It's a good thriller, however. (Young woman sorting out her past and the way her parents constantly moved to keep her safe.) Is the morbid discovery of six young girls buried
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a link to her past?
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LibraryThing member DarlenesBookNook
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
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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 reminiscent of Catherine Gagnon's case which was solved in Alone. Is this the work of the same man who kidnapped Catherine?

I like this book even more than the first in the series! It is getting better!!

I like Bobby Dodge, but it seems like he can't help himself but get involved with each of women in these books!!

Gardner threw in lots of twists and red herrings that kept me guessing right up until the end. Just when I thought that I had everything figured out, there was another twist! I love it when authors do that - keeps me on my toes!

I also like Maggie-Meg Reed's narration of this book.

MY RATING: 4 stars!
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LibraryThing member Shuffy2
The bodies of six young girls are discovered in an underground chamber, they appear to have been long forgotten yet the heinous act is eerily familiar to another crime from the past. Is it possible that the two are connected?

Det. Bobby Dodge is called in to work the scene and is stunned by what has
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been discovered. Annabelle Granger is stunned too- the front page of the Boston Herald says she is dead. Why have the newspapers named her as a victim and what is her role in the 25 year old murders? So many questions


Lisa Gardner has created a gripping ‘whodunit’ in this novel; I couldn’t put it down until I knew how it all played out. Most of the time, I figure out who did ‘dunit’ but not this time- kept me guessing until the end! A must read for any murder mystery fan
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Language

Original language

English

Original publication date

2007-01-30

Physical description

480 p.; 6.88 inches

ISBN

0553588087 / 9780553588088

Barcode

1600746

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