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“The sinister factor starts early and builds quickly…in this twist-a-minute novel…When You See Me has it all.”
— Karin Slaughter, New York Times bestselling author
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“Gardner effortlessly…introduces and paints a number of characters…Fast paced and gripping.”
— Columbus Dispatch
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“Isn’t a manifesto. But it’s a nice fit with what’s happening in the real world, where women who once might have hung back are stepping forward with confidence and getting to work on whatever challenge faces them.”
— St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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“Gardner infuses her narrative with timely and topical social issues that deserve a closer look…including dependency, exploitation, gang violence, and PTSD. So too the struggles of working mothers…It’s these elements that ground the author’s propulsive plots in a sense of realism despite their fictional flourishes.”
— Criminal Element
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“Gardner continues to put her three best characters together, a proven winning recipe that again delivers a pulse-pounding reading experience.”
— Real Book Spy
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“[A] sensitive exploration of trauma and its insidious, lasting effects.”
— Kirkus Reviews
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“The twists and turns keep peeling veils off an evil nobody wants to look at head-on and culminate in a breakneck final act…It’s a mystery that will keep you up late at night, haunted by the events within its pages.”
— BookPage
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Lisa Gardner is a master of the psychological thriller that dives deep into the minds of characters that experience trauma and come out stronger from the experience.
— Associated Press
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Gardner effortlessly . . . introduces and paints a number of characters. . . . Fast-paced and gripping.
— Columbus Dispatch
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A stunner of a tale that finds [Gardner] at the top of her game. . . . [A] relentlessly riveting psychological thriller that never lets up and never lets us down.
— Providence Journal
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This is top-notch suspense by a bestselling master of the genre.
— Booklist (starred review)
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An emotionally powerful page-turner. Fans of kick-ass female investigators will be well satisfied.
— Publishers Weekly
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“Gardner juggles multiple narratives . . . with ease. A sensitive exploration of trauma and its insidious, lasting effects.
— -Kirkus Reviews
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The forensic analysis of shallow graves can unearth a lot of clues, but When You See Me also looks at the ways evil is handed down from one generation to the next. It’s a mystery that will keep you up late at night, haunted by the events within its pages.
— Bookpage
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One of . . .PopSugar’s “31 New Thriller and Mystery Books to Look Out for in 2020”Bustle’s “35 Most Anticipated Books of January 2020”CrimeRead’s “10 Novels You Should Read in January”Mystery Tribune’s “16 Best Crime, Mystery, and Thriller Books of January 2020”
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Gardner continues to put her three best characters together, a proven winning recipe that again delivers a pulse-pounding reading experience.
— The Real Book Spy
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This is a book rich in description, as well as delving into the motives and thoughts of each of the characters.
— The New York Journal of Books
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“Warning. Don’t expect to get anything done once you crack open the latest Lisa Gardner. . . . When You See Me is a masterpiece.
— -Fresh Fiction
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Another edgy thriller from one of my favorite authors. The sinister factor starts early and builds quickly as Southern town charm gives way to deadly menace and dangerous secrets in this twist-a-minute novel. A string of murders, a crack FBI team, and a voiceless girl desperate for revenge, When You See Me has it all.
— Karin Slaughter
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When You See Me is another rocket-fuel-propelled thriller from Lisa Gardner. This culmination of her great talents sees the return of her finest characters (including my favorite, Flora Dane), who collide with an intrigue that starts out chillingly intimate and explodes into a sky-high denouement that will leave you breathless.
— Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times bestselling author of the Orphan X series
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A twisty-turny psycho-thriller with a plot and characters that won’t let you go. Lisa Gardner is at the top of her game!
— Kathy Reichs, author of the Temperance Brennan Bones series