I usually enjoy this authors books and I have had this one on my TBR since 2018. How terrible am I!
I intended to read more of this series as I’d requested it and realised I’m not up to date with the Detective.

Then I forgot.

I finally listened to this on my library app.

It’s another case for D D Warren to crack.

I found this one a bit “run of the mill” and predictable for my thoughts.

Great book. Well written. I've enjoyed all the books I've read by this author and will be looking out for more in the future.

Look for me by Lisa Gardner.
Detective DD Warren and Flora Dane are in a race against time to save a young girl's life - or bring her to justice.
Really enjoyable read. Great story and characters. 4*.

Lisa Gardner is probably my favourite author and she doesn't dissapoint with this fantastic thriller.

The story features D.D. Warren and a mix of flawed characters that had me hooked from page one with a great plot. I ended up full of empathy for all of them; including the dogs. The plot was easy to follow without being full of holes, a great read

I didn't write a review for this when I actually read it which was foolish. However I remember that much like Lisa Gardner's other works, I loved this! DD & Flora make a great team and I really enjoy their relationship, if you can call it that. A perfect addition to this series.

I did not read this book but would like to in the future. Unfortunately for me, it was archived before I could download it.

This was a good story, quite interesting, and well written. I did enjoy reading it, and it was quite compelling. I did wonder whether it should have been edited to be a bit shorter, as there was some repetition that I felt was unnecessary as it slowed the pace of the book, and for that reason I gave it four stars not five.

I hadn't read any of the other books in this series as I thought this was a standalone, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. It's a detective novel with tough themes and tough characters. Gardner doesn't shy away from really painting the picture of the horror her characters experience, which made both the plot and the characters more immersive for me. It reminded me of Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, so not the most original storyline but a well written and enjoyable one regardless.

I haven't read a Lisa Gardner novel for a while and I really enjoyed it. This is set in Boston and there is a trail of bodies spanning a number of years. Honestly if American crime drama is you bag this is completely one that should be on your to be read pile.

I am happy to recommend it to all of my fellow bookworms, family and friends


Read for an honest review. Thank you Ms Gardner, Netgalley and Headline

I enjoyed this book as I have all of Lisa Gardners books. It helps to have read the earlier ones in the series but it's not essential and can be read as a stand alone.

I really enjoy Lisa Gardners books and this one is as good as the rest. Great plot and believable characters. Recommended.

I loved Lisa Gardner's last book and this one is no different. Excellent plot/character building. Looking forward to the next one.

If all of Lisa Gardner’s Look For Me had been an extension of its first chapter, then my enjoyment (and consequential star rating) of it, would have been vastly different. The writing was impeccable (a rarity in the genre as you may well have heard me say), the scene appropriately gory (not glossed over, spruced up and rendered unrealistic in its attempts to appear palatable to a wider audience) and the characters already empathetic - ten or so pages in and I already cared enough about the main character to not want anything bad to happen to her.
But then, the main character was not the main character.
Instead, she was relegated to the sidelines to allow a new, convoluted plot-line to take centre-stage; this one meandered, changing at will to fit the fluctuating and transparent goals of the author. Aspects of the story clumsily faded in and out, depending on whether or not they were currently integral to the plot making sense, or if, at that moment, their existence worked against its plausibility. It was as though, the book had not been plotted or planned to any sort of degree, before Lisa Gardner sat down to write it; leaving a murky, confused mystery that gave the notion that even she had no idea, even at the latter stages, who the murderer was.

Look for Me is the ninth book in the Detective D.D. Warren series and although it can be read as a stand alone novel a big part of the appeal for me is in the following of the series and watching the characters grow and change through personal and professional lives so new readers will be lacking a lot of the back story of the protagonist D.D.

This book also brings back a firm favourite character Flora Dane from book number eight 'Find Her' which has Flora's back story. Again you don't necessarily need to have read Find Her first but having read it does give the characters so much more depth and understanding.

However please don't let that put you off if you are new to this series, it just means you will have another eight more books to add to your tbr pile and if it is anything like mine that list is ever-increasing!

This book gives you a look at the foster care system, both the good and bad cases of how it works sometimes doesn't so be prepared to be emotionally railroaded!! 

An entire family murdered and a young girl missing the chapters are told from three points of view, D.D's, Flora's and Roxy, the missing girl, this is a story of love, loss and strength from three different female characters.

The pace is relentless ensuring the pages can't turn fast enough and yet another night of sleep is forgone for many readers, of which I am one!

I am now already itching to read the next D.D. Warren novel 'Never Tell' which is due to be published on 21 February 2019.

A big thank you to the author Lisa Gardner, publishers Random House UK, Cornerstone and NetGalley for my copy of this book in exchange for an honest and independent review.

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My first Lisa Gardner book and I wasn't disappointed. I didn't need to have read any of the previous 8 stories to enjoy this.

Another epic story from Lisa Gardner. I love the fact that the victim, who is not the narrator, is extremely clever and does her best to survive is the face of tragic adversity. An absolute classic.

I didn't realise this was part of a series so I read it from the viewpoint that it was standalone and it worked just fine. Immediately we are informed of a crime scene where four members of the same family are murdered. However, sixteen-year-old Roxy is out walking her dogs at the time. Did she avoid the same fate or actually orchestrate it? Detective DD Warren is helped by kidnap survivor Flora Dane in a race against time to find the girl. No spoilers, so I will just say it was a gritty, tightly written crime thriller and I will be looking out for more by Lisa Gardner.

This is already the 9th book in the DD Warren series, and they just keep on getting better. I love DD's special type of humor, the way she handles the suspects and still keep her feminine side. In this book she is part of an investigation of a family murder, except for one girl that manages to escape the massacre. This makes her a suspect or just lucky. This book was gripping from beginning to end and I couldn't wait to see if Roxy was guilty or not.
Recommended.

Kept me guessing until the end what a fantastic book. Will absolutely be reading more from this author!

This is book #9 already in the successful ‘Detective D.D. Warren’ series. For me it’s the introduction to Gardner and obviously this series. And what an introduction it is! I loved it from beginning to (almost) the end. The ending is a bit disappointing since I saw it coming but the whole read in general was great!

The characters are well developed, the storytelling lovely. You notice Gardner slipped into this book like a well fitting jacket. This can be dangerous but I don’t feel she fell into the trap of automatism and rapidly spit out another book. The cover art however could be improved and feels like 13 in a dozen…

Well written police story and has the lingo to accompany it.