The Next Accident

This book was excellent. If you read the, Third Victim, and fell in love with Raine, then you'll go crazy in this book as well. Raine and Quicy's characters are developed and we're introduced to Quicy's daughter, Kimberly. There were plenty of twist and turns. This book will leave you hungering for more. Though I was able to figure out the villains, I was captivated at how Lisa. Gardner was going to tie it all together.

The Next Accident by Lisa Gardner
FBI Profiler series #3. Police procedural thriller.
FBI Agent Pierce Quincy is haunted by his daughter’s death from a drunk-driving accident. Pierce has asked private investigator Rainie Connor to look into his daughter’s accident. She finds the responding officer and his analysis of the accident is chilling. Could the accident have been planned and was personally aimed at Pierce? He and Rainie and his surviving daughter go through his cases trying to find any flags. And in the meantime, don’t trust anyone.

Chilling to think someone can systematically pull apart your life because you did your job. Grisly and bloody and way too close for comfort. A thrill ride you won’t soon forget.

I like Lisa Gardner's novels; they are filled with interesting female characters. In this case, a newly minted private investigator teams up with a top FBI profiler (for which there is also a past personal relationship) to help investigate whether an accident was indeed an accident. A few over the top and eye-rolling moments, but overall a decently-paced thriller who-done-it.

Entertaining and I will keep reading Gardner but ugg. I always wonder how authors with talented storytelling abilities can put out such unrealistic yarns. The story could have done with half the killing and half the killers.

One of my pet peeves...I like to learn the story by reading through the story, not with the bad guy explaining everything at the end.

This was an gripping mystery which kept me guessing throughout. I realized after I started it that it was the third book in the Pierce Quincy series, but I enjoyed it anyway. I liked the characters Quincy, Rainie and Kim and was rooting for them to outwit the killer. Good twists and turns as both the heroes and the villain set up obstacles against the other. Now to find the first two books, The Perfect Husband and The Third Victim!

This book kept me guessing all the way through. The characters were very real and I felt a part of their tragedy. I thought I knew the killer, but Gardner kept throwing in twists and turns. Great read.

High-flying FBI agent Pierce Quincy's daughter has died in what everyone thinks of as a drunken car crash. However Qunciy's not so sure it was an accident and he asks a private investigator to look into the crash. Soon after Quincy's home phone number is provided to the prison populations of America and he starts receiving awful, threatening calls from death row inmates and other charmers. Things get worse for Quincy and his remaining family from that point on.

The level of suspense was pretty good in this novel and it did keep my attention. The plot held together pretty well too. However the characters never really grabbed me because they weren't memorable in any way. The most annoying thing for me though was that this is apparently the show more third in this series and there were so many references to events in previous novels that it was difficult to read as a standalone. I got the feeling I was expected to have read the previous books and that was very frustrating as a reader.

I'd really give this 2.5 stars. show less