BOOK REVIEW - Gone by Lisa Gardner

At the suggestion of another blogger Sherry. I read Gone by Lisa Gardner. I usually don't read suspenseful thrillers but I was ready for something different. The plot surrounds an investigation of a missing person who is the wife of a former FBI worker turned private investigator. She is held for ransom by a sadistic killer who keeps emphasizing he is not a monster but something will happen if the husband does not cooperate.
It definitely kept my interest especially reading one night till midnight to finish it. I did not know who the killer was till the end but then again I am not the type of person that reads between the lines and says "I know who did it." What was so intense for me was that there was a lot revealed about the many characters in the novel. They all had some secret thoughts being revealed about their personal lives. But Lisa Gardner had well-developed characters all except the killer. You only got to know him at the end when he was caught. Maybe that is why I never suspected that person as the suspect.

I decided to read a less intense book after this one by Luanne Rice called The Secret Hour. To my dismay this book is about a lawyer for a another sadistic killer who is sitting on death row trying to prove his mental illness appeal. I will tell you about this one when I finish it soon.