So much time had gone between my reading of book #5.5, when D.D. Warren had her baby boy, and this next book, that I was afraid the baby would be a teenager already. But no, the baby is just ten weeks old in book #6 and D.D. has been back at work for two weeks, a changed woman like she could have never expected to change. That's what being a new mother has done to D.D. and I think the change looks good on her. There is a balance in her life that she would have never allowed until her precious ba...

This fabulous crime mystery series is more worthy than my treatment of reviewing it a month after the fact! Detective D.D Warren leaves us in capable hands as a strong female protagonist. Equally as strong here is Charlie, who believes she has four days left to live. Her two best girlfriends were murdered on this day, in each prior year before. This case as well as a paedophile case consumes much of D. D’s working hours, she is dreadfully tired now being mum of baby Jack, and she quickly realise...

4 detective starsIt had been a while since I had read one in this series, but I was drawn right back in. Lisa Gardner's writing makes me want to sit and read all day.We are right back in Detective D.D. Warren's world, but this time there's a big change as she has a new baby at home. This makes her work more meaningful and more terrifying, especially when she has a pedophile case on her hands.We also get to know Charlene and she's fearful for an upcoming anniversary. Two years ago on January 21st...

"Everyone has to die sometime. Be brave."What would you do if you thought you were going to die? You know the date. January 21st. You know the approximate time. 8PM. In the past two years Charlene Grant's two best childhood friends were murdered on January 21st at about 8PM. Now Charlene believes it is her turn but she is not going to just let it happen. She is not going down without a fight. She has taken up boxing and she has a gun and is taking shooting lessons. Four days. Ninety six hours. I...

This book addresses several heavy subjects that at times are explained very explicitly, and for some may be disturbing. The first is about mental illness and all the horrid things that happen to the children of the afflicted that go unchecked. The second, is concerning the vile subject of pedophilia and last but not least is how a serial killer may relate back to both.This is my first Lisa Gardner book. She does a masterful job of producing an exciting psychological thriller. This who done it ha...

This is the first Lisa Gardner book I've ever read and it was CATCH ME it is the sixth book of the series. I've definitely got to read the prior books of this series. Thanks MARY for telling me how great this series is.

Catch Me4 StarsThis series has improved in the last couple of installments. One reason is the development of D.D. Warren's character. She is no longer the cold and brash detective with an obsessive need to prove herself but rather a intelligent investigator whose attempts to juggle family life and work make her much more endearing. The plot is intricate with two parallel mysteries. While both are intriguing and suspenseful (particularly the scenes involving the Internet predators and Charlie's m...

Clever story that kept me guessing. Charlene (Charlie) Grant is sure she’s going to die this year on January 21. One her her childhood friends was murdered two years ago on that date, her other best friend was murdered last year, same date. Both strangled, neither fought back, died at home, no forced entry. A mystery worthu of Agatha Christy. She prepares for the day by learning to fight, learning to use a gun. She moves away from her home in New Hampshire to Cambridge, thinking she can hide. Sh...

This is a reread!! Everyone has to die sometime. Be Brave This is one of the messages the killer leaves behind!!The opening chapter of Catch Me, the 6th novel in Lisa Gardner’s Detective D.D. Warren Series is like a punch on your chest!! It’s so horrifying and so dark……An 8 year old girl is stabbed by her insane mother, who is trying to set fire to their home with her baby sister inside, manages to knock out the mother and save her sister. Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant survives the te...

Listened to CATCH ME while walking this past week -- definitely went over my daily step goals every morning because this was a great story. I love D.D. Warren, one of Lisa Gardner's best characters (and she has many great characters.) The story was original, totally suspenseful and fun. The back and forth chapters with D.D. and then Charlie (in first person) were pitch perfect. The narrator is one of my favorites. The ending was terrific. Not one flaw in this book. I rarely get surprised, but it...

Charlene Grant is a marked woman, or so she believes. Her two best friends were murdered one year apart on the same date and it’s fast approaching again. The anniversary of her last friend’s murder is in four days and Charlene has not only prepared for it but reached out to Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren whom she believes to be the top cop in Boston. Warren agrees she’s got cause for concern but is also giving Charlene the side eye as she delves into her life. There’s definitely good reason for...

Lisa Gardner is one of those authors who rarely if ever fails me. Her thrillers are fast paced, hard hitting and they keep you on the edge of your seat. Catch Me is about a woman, Charlene Grant who believes she is going to die. The last 2 years on January 21 her childhood best friends were murdered. And Charlene knows she's next but she doesn't plan on going down without a fight. She has taken up boxing, shooting and running in preparation for her fight. She also wants Boston's top homicide det...

Everyone has to die sometime. Be brave.That's what Charlie's mum used to tell her right before she hurt her. But Charlie doesn't remember much of the first eight years of her life as an abused child. After her Aunt rescued her she only remembers love and safety although sometimes her nightmares bring back horrifying flashes of her early years. Now Charlie is working as a police radio dispatcher in Boston and she knows she is no longer safe. Her two BFFs were each murdered one year apart in exac

Kept me guessing! I made false predictions several times. Loved seeing a softer D.D.

I am slowly, but surely working my way through Lisa Gardner’s suspenseful D.D Warren detective series. I have just finished number six, Catch Me , which features a gritty emergency dispatcher named Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant. Charlie, as she is called, is like no one D.D. Warren has encountered before. She boxes, she works with a shooting instructor at a firing range, she works out religiously, she cares about a stray dog that is not her dog, and she works the night shift at her dispatch job...

I love the D.D. Warren mysteries, and this one does not disappoint! Twenty-eighty year old Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant, Charlie, thinks she has four days left to live. Two years ago one of her best friends, Randi was murdered on January 21st, then one year to the date, her other best friend Jackie was murdered. They were a trio. The three musketeers: Randi Jackie Charlie, as they were known in school. It is four days until January 21st and Charlie thinks she's next. She's not going down witho...

As an unashamed admirer of ballsy Sergeant Detective D.D. Warren of the Boston Police Department, Lisa Gardner is my 'go to' girl when I need a shot of adrenaline and this sixth appearance of D.D., Catch Me, certainly fitted the bill!D.D. Warren is on cranky form when she returns to duty following her maternity leave, not because she has been parted from her ten-week-old son, Jack, or at the mercy of his fragmented nighttime sleeping. Hell, no.. As a born workaholic who lives and breathes her jo...

Lisa Gardner does it again! Another suspenseful thriller!"Everyone must Die sometime. Be brave.""Dying for someone is easy" J.T. murmured now. "Living for yourself is the hard part that's hard.This is the sixth book in the Detective D.D. Warren series. This is another excellent thriller and isn't dark like the other books I have been reading. Everyone close to Charlene is dying and the date they are murdered is January 21. Several days before January 21 Charlene contacts D.D. Warren letting her...

3 starsI am not sure why I stick with this series. This is book six in the D.D. Warren series. I will admit that this book is one of the better I have read of the six, but for me it was only average. Gardner is not an author that I sit and wait impatiently for her next book. I place Gardner in the pallet-cleansing, help-me-over-the-hump-of-a-reading-slump category. Thus, not sure why I continue to read her series, when I have so many other book to read. With that said, this book had a couple of

Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant, or Charlie as she liked to be called, believed she had just a few days to live. Her two best friends, Randi and Jackie had both been murdered on the 21st January, a year apart, and it was almost the 21st January again, and she believed it was her turn. No-one had been caught for the murder of her friends, and the police didn’t really believe they were connected. FBI profiler Pierce Quincy tended to believe her, and he was worried about her, but that didn’t help. S...