20 Best Lisa Gardner Books

Recovering alcoholic Frankie Elkin drifts into Boston’s Mattapan neighborhood to search for Angelique Badeau, a Haitian teenager missing for months. With no badge and few allies, Frankie navigates gangs, wary families, and her own demons to find a girl the city seems to have forgotten.

Five years after Timothy O’Day vanished during a bachelor party camping trip in Wyoming, his father mounts one final search. Frankie Elkin joins the small team heading into the national forest, only to discover that something in the wilderness wants to make sure none of them come back.

A new clue in serial killer Jacob Ness’s crimes sends D.D. Warren, FBI agent Kimberly Quincy, and survivor Flora Dane to a small Georgia town with too many unmarked graves. As they uncover fresh horrors and hidden victims, Flora is forced to confront the full truth of what happened to her years ago.

Police sniper Bobby Dodge makes a split second decision during a Boston hostage standoff and kills a well connected husband. As questions mount about what really happened, Detective D.D. Warren and Bobby uncover buried secrets and a far older evil.

For two years running, one of Charlie Grant’s childhood friends has been murdered on January 21. Convinced her turn is next, Charlie asks D.D. Warren to investigate her future death. As D.D. digs into Charlie’s past, she wonders whether her terrified client is truly a target or something more dangerous.

Recovering from a brutal on the job attack, D.D. Warren turns to pain specialist Dr. Adeline Glen, a woman born without the ability to feel pain. When a new killer echoes the crimes of Adeline’s infamous father and imprisoned sister, both women are dragged into a family nightmare that refuses to stay buried.

Seven years after being kidnapped on spring break and held for 472 days, Flora Dane has rebuilt herself into a survivor who hunts predators. After she kills a man in self defense, D.D. Warren must sort out whether Flora is a victim, a vigilante, or bait in a larger game involving a missing college student.

When the mummified bodies of six girls are discovered on the grounds of an abandoned mental hospital, Detective D.D. Warren fears a notorious killer has returned. A woman with a disturbingly similar childhood steps forward, and D.D. must untangle decades of secrets before someone else vanishes.

Four members of a family are massacred in their Boston home and the surviving father clings to life. D.D. Warren’s search for answers leads her to a locked pediatric psych ward and a desperate mother, where buried trauma links past and present in dangerous ways.

Four members of a blended family are gunned down in their Boston home and sixteen year old Roxanna is missing. Partnering with vigilante Flora Dane, D.D. Warren follows a trail through foster files, teenage friendships, and old resentments to find the girl before someone else does.

State police trooper Tessa Leoni admits she shot her abusive husband, but refuses to explain her injuries or her missing six year old daughter. Working the case, D.D. Warren must decide whether Tessa is a desperate mother, a calculating killer, or both before the little girl’s time runs out.

Evie Carter stands over her husband’s body with a smoking gun and a history that includes another fatal shooting years before. As D.D. Warren reopens the old case and Flora Dane recognizes the dead man from her captivity, the two women pull on a tangle of family secrets someone will kill to protect.

Pregnant FBI agent Kimberly Quincy is drawn into the case of missing runaways and sex workers when a terrified young prostitute hints at a sadist who uses spiders as his calling card. With no bodies and only whispers, Kimberly must decide whether the monster she hunts even exists until it is almost too late.

A young mother disappears from her South Boston home, leaving behind a four year old daughter and a husband who will not cooperate with police. As media frenzy grows, D.D. Warren has to decide whether she is dealing with a grieving spouse, a predator, or a victim of something stranger.

Abandoned in a Boston hospital at nine and adopted by a prominent family, Melanie Stokes has no memories of her life before. When anonymous notes and a pushy reporter tie her to a Texas serial killer, Melanie must uncover who she really is and which family she can trust.

Tess Beckett thought she married the perfect cop until she helped send him to prison for murdering multiple women. When he escapes and vows revenge, Tess teams up with a burned out ex marine to protect her daughter and end the nightmare on her own terms.

A devastating school shooting shatters the small town of Bakersville, Oregon, and a frightened boy quickly confesses. Officer Rainie Conner calls in FBI profiler Pierce Quincy, and together they uncover a hidden predator who has only just begun playing a very personal game.

Boston power couple Justin and Libby Denbe and their teenage daughter vanish from their elegant home without a trace. Corporate investigator Tessa Leoni follows a trail from a ransacked townhouse to an abandoned prison, uncovering corporate betrayal, family secrets, and a kidnap plot built on more than money.

A calculating predator always takes two victims, leaving one body behind packed with clues to the second captive’s location. Rookie FBI agent Kimberly Quincy joins her father Pierce Quincy and Rainie Conner in a race against a brutal timetable as a deadly heatwave descends.

Jillian, Carol, and Meg refuse to call themselves victims after a serial rapist attacks them; they form the Survivors Club and help put him on trial. When he is gunned down outside the courthouse, the women become prime suspects and Detective Roan Griffin must decide who is seeking ultimate revenge.