TUESDAY EXCERPTS: “NEVER TELL”

On By Laurel-Rain SnowIn Tuesday Excerpts

Welcome to another Tuesday celebrating bookish events, First Chapter/Intros, originally hosted by Bibliophile by the Sea and now hosted by I’d Rather Be at the Beach; and Teaser Tuesdays hosted by The Purple Booker.

Today’s feature is a recent download:  Never Tell, by Lisa Gardner, an unpredictable thriller that puts fan favorites D.D. Warren and Flora Dane on a shocking new case that begins with a vicious murder and gets darker from there.

 

 

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Intro:  (Evie)

By the time I pull my car into the garage, my hands are shaking on the wheel.  I tell myself I have no reason to feel so nervous.  I tell myself I’ve done nothing wrong.  I still sit there an extra beat, staring straight ahead, as if some magic answer to the mess that is my life will appear in the windshield.

It doesn’t.

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Teaser:  Samuel smiles.  It’s a devastating look on him.  Good luck to my mom, I think, because no man this beautiful can be easy to manage. (p. 61).

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Prognosis:  A man is dead, shot three times in his home office. But his computer has been shot twelve times, and when the cops arrive, his pregnant wife is holding the gun.

D.D. Warren arrives on the scene and recognizes the woman–Evie Carter–from a case many years back. Evie’s father was killed in a shooting that was ruled an accident. But for D.D., two coincidental murders is too many.

Flora Dane sees the murder of Conrad Carter on the TV news and immediately knows his face. She remembers a night when she was still a victim–a hostage–and her captor knew this man. Overcome with guilt that she never tracked him down, Flora is now determined to learn the truth of Conrad’s murder.

But D.D. and Flora are about to discover that in this case the truth is a devilishly elusive thing. As layer by layer they peel away the half-truths and outright lies, they wonder: How many secrets can one family have?

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What do you think?  I know that I love every one of the D.D. Warren and Flora Dane books.

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22 thoughts on “TUESDAY EXCERPTS: “NEVER TELL””

  1. Hi Lorraine,

    I haven’t read a Lisa Gardner book for several years, in fact so long ago that I can’t even remember which one it was and back then I probably didn’t even realise that I was breaking into an ongoing series.

    ‘Never Tell’ sounds like a great book, with plenty of twists in the story, so I am wondering if the books might still work as stand alones, as the D.D. Warren series is very firmly entrenched now and I couldn’t contemplate going right back to the beginning?

    Thanks for a lovely post which looks great 🙂

    Yvonne
    xx

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  11. Rachel @Waves of Fiction

    Loved this one! Glad to hear you’re a fan of Lisa Gardner, too. I can’t wait for more D.D. & Flora! Hope you’re enjoying the story. 🙂

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