Book info

• Title Hide
• Author Lisa Gardner
• Year 2007
• Genre Mystery

Annabelle Granger was seven years old when it first happened. She arrived home to find the suitcases packed and her parents desperate to flee their home. Then followed years spent running, from what, or who, she doesn't know, just an endless blur of new faces and new towns. Now, aged 30, Annabelle has finally settled in Boston and is happy with her life. Until the bodies of six girls are found in the grounds of an abandoned mental institute and a newspaper declares her one of the victims. Detectives D. D. Warren and Bobby Dodge are determined to unravel the decades-old riddle and they fear that the discovery signals the return of a notorious serial killer, Mr Bosu - Bobby's worst nightmare. As they get closer to the truth they will all be forced to confront the uncomfortable truths in their pasts; because ultimately, there is no hiding place...

Thoughts

I’ve shied away from Lisa Gardner books in the past after finding one of them particularly vicious, harsh and featuring just slightly too much hate for my tastes. However, I thought I shouldn’t base my assumptions on just one book so picked up this one in a sale.

I hadn’t realised it was the second in a series, but it didn’t feel like I was missing any information anyway. The story is far-fetched but somehow captivating, and although the crimes are hideous, there isn’t an awful lot of violence involved. There’s a serial killer to be caught but his crimes are dated by several decades, so the horrors are already done.

It was an interesting book, certainly managing to undo some of the hurt that the previous Gardner book did, and the tale was inventive. I’m still not sure it was entirely my cup of tea, though.

Rating: 2 / 5