Catch Me (Detective D. D. Warren Series #6)

by Lisa Gardner

Overview

Detective D. D. Warren has four days to stop a killer in this “shocking…‘must read’”* from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner—one of Library Journal's Best Thrillers of the Year.

Charlene Grant believes she is going to die. For the past few years, her childhood friends have been murdered one by one. Same day. Same time. Now she’s the last of her friends alive, and she’s counting down the final four days of her life until January 21st. 

Charlene doesn’t plan on going down without a fight. She has taken up boxing, shooting, and running. She also wants Boston’s top homicide detective, D. D. Warren, to handle the investigation.

But as D. D. delves deeper into the case, she starts to question the woman’s story. Instinct tells her that Charlene may not be in any danger at all. If that’s true, the woman must have a secret—one so terrifying that it alone could be the greatest threat of all.


*Associated Press

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780451413437
Publisher:	Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date:	12/24/2012
Series:	Detective D. D. Warren Series , #6
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	480
Sales rank:	94,167
Product dimensions:	4.54(w) x 7.52(h) x 1.01(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lisa Gardner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, including Look For Me, Right Behind You, Find Her, Crash & Burn, Fear Nothing, Touch & Go, Catch Me, and The Neighbor, which won the International Thriller of the Year Award. She lives with her family in New England.

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Frighteningly real.”—People

“The best thriller Lisa Gardner has written to date...It will hook you from the start.”—The Huffington Post
“Plan to stay awake for a few nights...[It's] terrifying."—Bookreporter.com

“[A] scare-your-socks-off thriller.”—Library Journal

“Shocking...A 'must read' for any suspense aficionado.”—The Associated Press

Editorial Reviews

Praise for Catch Me

“Frighteningly real.”—People

“The best thriller Lisa Gardner has written to date...It will hook you from the start.”—Huffington Post

“[A] scare-your-socks-off thriller.”—Library Journal

More praise for #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner

“No one owns this corner of the genre the way Lisa Gardner does.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child
 
“Nerve-shattering suspense.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Tami Hoag
 
“For years Lisa Gardner has been one of the best in the thriller business, but Find Her is something new: taut psychological suspense, an intricate mystery, emotionally devastating, ultimately empowering—a novel that should not be missed.”—#1 New York Times bestselling Harlan Coben
 
“Lisa Gardner’s work has the chills and thrills to excite, and the heart to draw you in.”—#1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown

“Lisa Gardner is one of my favorite authors. Her fast-paced and exciting novels twist when you expect a turn and turn when you expect a twist. I cannot recommend her more.”—New York Times bestselling author Karin Slaughter

“Lisa Gardner is the master of the psychological thriller.”—Associated Press
 
“No one writes this kind of modern horror tale better than Gardner, no one.”—The Providence Journal

“A psychological thriller both chilling and emotional. Her narrative thrums with heart-pounding scenes and unexpected twists that have you furiously flipping pages.”—USA Today Happy Ever After

“The line between mysteries and thrillers and so-called literary fiction has always been a thin one, but contemporary writers like Lisa Gardner make that sort of arbitrary distinction seem especially foolish.”—Connecticut Post

“When it comes to author Lisa Gardner, the tales she writes are always extreme gems in the literary world, and this is no exception.”—Suspense Magazine
 
“From the captivating first sentence to the shocking conclusion, this is addictive reading entertainment at its finest.”—Brit & Co

From the Publisher

The well-wrought suspense offsets the shaky plot of bestseller Gardner’s sixth novel featuring Boston Sgt. Det. D.D. Warren (after 2011’s Love You More). Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant, a 28-year-old police dispatch officer with a horrific childhood, expects to be murdered on January 21. One of her two best friends was strangled at home on January 21 two years earlier; exactly a year later, her other best friend suffered the same fate. On January 17, Grant seeks out Warren at a crime scene and asks the homicide detective to investigate her expected murder. Meanwhile, Warren is looking into the execution-style slayings of two pedophiles. Rookie sex crime detective Ellen O brings her expertise to this second case. Gardner skillfully tacks back and forth from Grant’s childhood traumas to her preparations to face a killer as it becomes increasingly murky whether Grant is victim, predator, or both. Fans should enjoy the numerous cameos by characters from other Gardner novels. Author tour. Agent: Meg Ruley, Jane Rotrosen Agency. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly

A young woman who believes she will be murdered in four days approaches Detective D.D. Warren to ask that she be lead investigator in the murder after it occurs. Perplexed, Warren digs into Charlie Grant’s life and slowly discovers her complex secrets and details of her horrific childhood. Just back from maternity leave, D.D. has her plate full with an infant son, a serial killer of pedophiles, and now Charlie’s unusual request. Gardner’s thriller and Kirsten Potter’s voice combine to make an explosive story that listeners will love. As Charlie, Potter delivers a haunting voice, unnerving in its calmness. D.D., the archetypal no-nonsense cop, speaks at a faster pace in abrupt sentences, with tones of testiness and irritation that melt away when she’s around her infant son. Potter is an expert at gimmick-free character portrayal. A near-perfect performance. A.R.H. Winner of AudioFile Earphones Award © AudioFile 2012, Portland, Maine

FEBRUARY 2012 - AudioFile

Like her fifth case (Love You More, 2011, etc.), Boston PD Det. Sgt. D.D. Warren's sixth subordinates her to another woman just as strong as she is, and a lot more interesting. Back in high school, Randi Menke, Jackie Knowles and Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant were the Three Musketeers, inseparable buddies who'd do anything for each other. Now Randi and Jackie are dead, strangled a year apart on Jan. 21. So as this Jan. 21 approaches, Charlie is naturally terrified that her turn is coming. Accosting D.D. at a crime scene, she announces that she's marked for death, describes how she's gone on the run from her job as a small-town police dispatcher and begs her to solve her murder, still several days away. Underlining her peril is a note left at the scene: "Everyone has to die sometime. Be brave." But something about Charlie's story doesn't add up. If she's so scared that she's pulled up stakes and high-tailed it to the big city, why hasn't she changed her name? Instead of being a victim, could she be the vigilante killer of pedophiles D.D.'s squad has been hunting? Or is she both killer and victim? Alternating between the third-person narration of D.D.'s investigation and Charlie's feverish first-person narrative, and throwing in more subplots showing abused women fighting their abusers, Gardner brings the ingredients to a rolling boil until she's finally cut Charlie off from her police defenders, disarmed her and backed her into a corner awaiting her killer. Irresistible high-wire melodrama, though it's easy to see why D.D. observes, "I think we just fell into a Lifetime movie."

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