Loved this book!!!!! A must read for everyone...This book had me hooked from the very first chapter. So refreshing to read a story line that wasn’t predictable and kept me on the edge of my seat right up until the very last page. So many twists and turns throughout that you feel like you are right beside Lily on her journey. I can not wait to read “The Next One to Fall”.

Excellent . . .a page turner. I enjoyed the flawed heroine and the cop Bruxton (a pit bull disguised as a man). Interesting plot twists. Recommended!

I liked this book which is a debut novel by Hilary Davidson. The lead character is a travel writer who has fled to Spain to avoid dealing with her drug-addicted sister. But family is family, and the latter is allowed to live in the travel agent's appartment in New York. One day the corpse of the sister is discovered in the apartment and the police contact the sister in Spain. She arrives in NYC and when asked to identify her sister, she tells the police that corpse is no one she recognizes. And

Great debut novel. And from all the awards that THE DAMAGE DONE is getting, I'm not the only one who thinks this. Strong characterization, plotting, and dialogue. In fact, much of the story is told through dialogue, so the necessity for it to sing is essential for its effectiveness. And Davidson nails it.The real strength of the story is Davidson's ability from the outset to defy convention. By not centering on the police, but making the "investigator" a relative, the story feels very personal,

Well, I didn't hate it, but I didn't love it either. It managed to hold my interest -- barely -- but I didn't find myself yearning to get back to it. I found it hard to envision the missing sister, Claudia, as being held in such high esteem by her lovers, ex-lovers, friends, etc. in fact, all but her sister, Lily, our protagonist, seemed to be madly in love with her. Well, almost all. Claudia was a heroin addict. Call me biased against druggies, which is true, but it appears to me that these are...

Lily is a travel writer who escaped to Spain leaving behind her sister, Claudia, an on again/off again (mostly on) drug addict, as well as a hovering, grasping fiance, Martin. She has been paying the rent on her New York apartment so that her sister wouldn't have to live on the streets. Claudia is the only relative she has. Both of their parents committed suicide. By the time Lily was in college and Claudia still in high school, both of their parents were gone. After a very long absence she retu...

The Damage Done is one of those rare books that succeeds on every level.Emotionally, I was grabbed from the very beginning. Lily, the first person protagonist, is a person I would want to know. She is smart, insightful, and compassionate beyond belief. She's also fun to spend time with - she has quirks and flaws that make her human. I'd love to get drunk with her one night.The plot is rich with complexity and layers and false identity, but somehow - a testament to the genius writing, perhaps - I...

I really enjoyed this riveting, twisty mystery/thriller, which has one of the most fascinating assortments of complex characters, including many of dubious repute, I've come across lately. I tend to go for complicated plots that involve mistaken identities and the like, so this was just my cuppa tea. I did have one favorite person, Lily's good friend Jesse, who is the most sensible, stable, and good-humored of the cast of characters. I thought it was fun the way he likened Lily to Miss Marple. T...

Oh, what a deliciously tangled web of circumstances does author Hilary Davidson weave in her masterful debut, The Damage Done.Travel writer Lily Moore is called home to New York from Spain with the horrible news that her sister, Claudia, has been found dead in the apartment they share. Even worse, Claudia’s death appears to be a suicide, tragically timed to coincide with the anniversary of their mother’s suicide. Given she had fled to Spain in large part to get away from the downward spiral that...

This was the first novel by Hilary Davidson and I was lucky enough to win a copy from Good Reads. It was interesting how she discussed the complexity of the relationship between the two sisters. The older sister, Lily Moore, did almost everything right and was a successful writer living abroad. The younger sister, Claudia, was a heroin addict and had tried to get off drugs many times. Lily feels protective of her younger sister even though she gets exasperated with her over her failure to rid he...

I read about Davidson's second book, The Next One to Fall, and thought it sounded interesting so ordered the first in the series, The Damage Done. I am glad that I did. Lily Moore, a travel journalist, like Davidson, returns from Spain to New York City in search of her troubled drug addicted sister and the pages start turning, twisting, and turning. This is one of those books that you can and will want to read in one sitting, as the pace moves quickly and coherently. The character of Lily and he...

Hard to believe this is a first novel. I found the plot to be seamless,each plot point follows logically on its predecessor and we do not have the last minute reveal of a pertinent plot point to tie things together. The characters well developed, intriguing flawed but believable, nor does Ms. Davidson fall back on cliche though I must confess for a desire to have Lily, our heroine, and Bruxton, our tough detective, hook up it wouldn't have been true to the story in this case. I hope the author h...

This book starts out with an interesting premise. Lily Moore has been living in Spain for over a year. She went there ostensibly on an assignment as a travel writer. But she had wanted to escape her New York life. Her engagement to a rich and powerful man had ended over his infidelity. Even worse, her drug addict sister was impossible to live with. Lily had invited Claudia to stay in her apartment after a near-fatal overdose. Lily continued to pay the rent while living abroad. However, she recei...

My Review: After reading her latest book Blood Always Tells (which I really loved) I hate to admit that I was really disappointed with this book. There just wasn't the suspense or the interesting characters that Blood Always Tells had in spades. I kept waiting and hoping for a big plot twist but it never really came.I also found the dialogue to be quite stale between the characters, many of whom came off as clichéd. From the gay best friend to the controlling boyfriend to the rich and highly pow...

Last weekend while looking through the program at the Tucson Festival of Books, a description of Hilary Davidson caught my eye. She is a mystery writer who has had a career as a travel writer, and the protagonist of her Lily Moore series is - you guessed it - a travel writer. So I attended one of Hilary's panels and listened to her discuss the origins of her mysteries and various influences on the stories in each one. Having been a travel writer myself, I was hooked even before I bought "The Dam...