Gone

By: Lisa Gardner

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 10 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

From the best-selling author of Alone and The Killing Hour comes a thriller that goes from heartbreaking to heartstopping in the blink of an eye.…When someone you love vanishes without a trace, how far would you go to get them back?

For ex-FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, it’s the beginning of his worst nightmare: a car abandoned on a desolate stretch of Oregon highway, engine running, purse on the driver’s seat. And his estranged wife, Rainie Conner, gone, leaving no clue to her fate.

Did one of the ghosts from Rainie’s troubled past finally catch up with her? Or could her disappearance be the result of one of the cases they’d been working - a particularly vicious double homicide or the possible abuse of a deeply disturbed child Rainie took too close to heart?

Together with his daughter, FBI agent Kimberly Quincy, Pierce is battling the local authorities, racing against time, and frantically searching for answers to all the questions he’s been afraid to ask. One man knows what happened that night. Adopting the alias of a killer caught eighty years before, he has already contacted the press. His terms are clear: he wants money, he wants power, he wants celebrity. And if he doesn’t get what he wants, Rainie will be gone for good. Sometimes, no matter how much you love someone, it’s still not enough.

As the clock winds down on a terrifying deadline, Pierce plunges headlong into the most desperate hunt of his life, into the shattering search for a killer, a lethal truth, and for the love of his life, who may forever be...gone.

©2006 Lisa Gardner (P)2006 Books on Tape

Critic reviews

"Gardner keeps the suspense cranked high." (Booklist)

"Gardner is hot to plot." (Kirkus Reviews)

"A terrifying woman-in-jeopardy plot....Sympathetic characters, a strong sense of place and terrific plotting distinguish Gardner's new thriller." (Publishers Weekly)

Not just a story, but a healing story

I recognized my own healing journey and saw my own courage to heal. Excellent! I recommend this story to anyone that needs to know that they're not alone in their pain. Healing is a long dark night, but there's light at the end of the hard work. I cried and I laughed. Exactly what I needed. Thank you Lisa.

Amazing!

Holds you all the way to the end. Love her books. Now on to the next one.

This book was AMAZING!!

I absolutely loved this book. Lots of intrigue! I didn't want to stop listening! I literally couldn't wait to get to the end!

Good listen

I enjoyed very much Listened driving to and from work. Can’t review while driving. Bummer

New short story to be released...

...in Lisa Gardner's FBI Profiler series on January 3, 2017 8.5 years after the prior book in the series. The new short story is titled The 4th Man.

The narration of Gone is Anna Fields who is not good with male voices but she does them (poorly) anyway. This series has three protagonists in the 6 novels. It starts with FBI profiler Pierce Quincy and then moves to Oregon sheriff Rainie Connor who later marries Quincy. Then Quincy's daughter Kimberly joins the FBI and becomes a protagonist. Kimberly marries an agent for Georgia Bureau of Investigation and he is co-protagonist in one novel. Gone is set in Oregon after Pierce Quincy retires and he and Rainie are estranged. Gone is an excellent suspense thriller which suffers from a narrator being asked to narrate male voices which she simply cannot do satisfactory.

Great book

Loved it. Love tbe characters and their family bond. Timothy Olyphant is Pierce Quincy. Movie deal.

Good story!

What did you like best about Gone? What did you like least?

I really like the narrator. She has a way of making the voices and characters come alive for me. I didn't like the developement of the main character as well in this book. It was probably just my taste but I wanted her to be stronger and less "messed up."

How would you have changed the story to make it more enjoyable?

N/A

Which scene was your favorite?

The ending because you got a sense of a new beginning in the works. It wasn't like everything was suddenly okay, but yet it was like reality where people have to work at fixing their problems with a little sunshine on the horizon.

If this book were a movie would you go see it?

Yes

Good but dragged alittle

Loved the book except felt like it dragged on just alittle
Still enjoyed it would recommend

great series

The FBI profiler series is great. I suggest ypu start with book 1. you will not be disappointed!!

In the good news department

HOW MANY TIMES DID SHE WRITE “in the good news department...”

I don’t know if it’s on purpose, or she likes to multiply the amount of times she says it per book, but it’s getting a bit annoying.

Overall the story is good. It’s interesting and like the other books in the series, I couldn’t stop listening. The ending was slightly less believable, and strongly predictable however.

One complaint I have about the performance is that there are not many pauses between paragraphs/scenes so sometimes it was a bit hard to follow. Also, there is little difference in her male voices, so a conversation between two men is also a little hard to follow.