This is the second Lisa Gardner book I’ve read and in all honesty, I didn’t think I’d try her again after the first one.
Then the first thing she does is call the FBI, which, if we’re led to believe cop shows and thrillers, is always a good thing if you want to piss off the police. Warren because she sets fire to the man who kidnapped her. Not at the start of the novel, though: Flora invokes the wrath of investigating detective D.D. She’s clever, inventive, has good intuition, but she’s also traumatised and vulnerable and it’s clearly a matter of time before she finds someone who outsmarts her. In search of meaning, she sets out to find other missing women by going to bars, getting drunk, allowing men to pick her up and then turning into a fury when they try to hurt her.
Though she’s eventually found she struggles to find her place in society, to reform the bond with her family. Seven years ago, young college student Florence ‘Flora’ Dane was kidnapped by a truck driver who keeps her as his personal toy for over four hundred days.
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