2.5 Stars for Love You More: Tessa Leoni #1 (audiobook) by Lisa Gardner read by Kristen Potter. The way this story was told didn’t work for me. I found the unreliable narrator annoying. I think that trope was a bad choice for this book. And the author need to learn more about firearms and terminology used with them. Her repeated mistakes kept pulling me out of the story.

Love You More (D.D. Warren #5) (Tessa Leoni #1) by Lisa Gardner (Author), Kirsten Potter (Reading), Katie MacNichol (Reading)I've decided I don't like D.D. Warren. She gets the job done but she does it by aggressively accusing everyone of something and threatening to ruin them if they don't cough up the information she accuses them of having. I do think the very good narration of rapid firing questions and accusations at the person D.D. is interrogating really shows the intense pressure she puts...

Well, well, well. Lucky this reader remembered about Detective D. D. Love this character. Love the new Tessa Leoni, too! The only bummer was I read this one book late, and mucked up the order, but no biggie. A 9 month time lapse to be precise!The demure looking Lisa Gardner donned in twin set and jeans that we see on the back cover of her books, is a pretty version of a killer writer. What I mean is she looks so straight laced but what she delivers on the page is crazy kick-ass, for want of a be...

4.5 StarsBefore I say anything insightful and deep about this book, LOL, I have to say this:This book has one of the strongest, baddassest and most kickass heroines in the entire fictional world. And it felt plausible. Well, plausible for a fictional story.And not only that. It’s also edge-of-the-seat good. I didn’t put my Kindle away until I reached the last page and that happens never. The story is told in a very, very clever way and the reader is kept in the dark the whole time. I kept think...

Sometimes the plot of a thriller just gets “curiouser and curiouser” until, well, until it all makes sense. Love You More, Lisa Gardner’s fifth D.D. Warren novel in which she also introduces Tessa Leoni as a strong protagonist, was one of those examples for me.Tessa, a Massachusetts state trooper, is arrested for the murder of her husband Brian and is suspected of murdering her six-year-old daughter Sophie. Boston P.D. Sergeant D.D. Warren thinks she did it. Her former partner and lover, Bobby D...

Oh. My. God. Before you begin this book, clear your schedule, send your children off, and prepare to go without sleep. Once you're halfway through this book, you won't be able to stop reading. I'd give this book ten, or one hundred star rating if I could. Note to any would be assassins, or child abductors: don't murder the husband or abduct the child of a Massachuetts State Police officer, or suffer the consequences. This is the premise of this book.Ms. Gardner always comes up with interesting p...

Just started and so far it's a struggle. Very poorly edited, I keep highlighting mistakes and it's very distracting.I am two thirds done and I have no idea why this books is so popular. A page turner? Hardly, I can't read more than a few pages at a time. The characters? Nobody seems to be particularly likeable and I find D.D. Warren so irritating I am actually hoping she fails miserably in her investigation. As for the story, very complicated in a very silly way. I am trying hard to finish it bu...

OMG I would have never guessed the ending. I loved the way Lisa Gardner keeps you guessing to the very end. I will be reading every book she puts out. Especially if they all keep you guessing like this one.

3.5 starsThis was a surprisingly enjoyable read. I was in a mood for something mysterious and twisted, and got exactly that. When I read Touch and Go, I didn't realized that that book was the second in the series. When I bought It last year on Amazon, no where, at that time, was it mentioned that it was part of the series. It read like a stand alone. I only realized that when I came across this book. Weird. This book is actually the fifth in D.D. Warren series, and some sort of spin off of the n...

One of the best books I've read this year. This was my Amazon review:I've been a fan of Lisa's D.D. Warren series for some time, but she's truly outdone herself with this one. It grabs you on the first page and keeps you guessing until the final chapter, moving effortlessly between first person and third person narration, weaving an extraordinary amount of research into nonstop action.Love You More starts with a crime we think we understand. Massachusetts State Trooper Tessa Leoni's husband Bria...

What would you think about the following line in a modern novel: “Every man has a moment in his life when he realizes he genuinely loves a woman, and she’s just not worth it.”Right: What an arrogant asshole! You would at once throw the book where it belongs – into the waste-bin. But I misquoted. You find the correct quote on page 256 and it reads like that: “Every woman has a moment in her life when she realizes she genuinely loves a guy, and he’s just not worth it.”On then Amazon-ebook it’s the...

I read this book a few years ago and really enjoyed it. Over the years I have read quite a few of Lisa Gardner's books. Even though I haven't read all of the books in this series I still found it to be a very good read on it's own. It grabbed me right off from the first page and I was kept guessing until the very end. I had a hard time putting it down. Trooper Tessa Leoni's husband Brian is dead and she herself has been beaten and is covered in bruises. It looks like a clear cut case of a batter...

What a book!Its been 6 hours after I read the book and I still can't calm down all those emotions that has be triggered by this book.This is a book that tells a story about the great love of a mother to her child and how she manages to do everything in her power to save her child.As you read the book, you can't remain indifferent to all those emotions in the heart of Tessa and Sophie, in the last 35 pages I could not calm down the emotions and the tears just couldn't stop, I know, it's just a bo...

Massachusetts State Police Trooper Tessa Leoni is found sitting in her kitchen beside the body of her husband, Brian Darby. Brian has three bullets in him, all fired from Tessa's gun. Tessa was fund badly beaten, so it looks like a case of self-defense. Boston homicide detective D.D. Warren knows there is more to the story than what she sees. Tessa's six-year-old daughter, Sophie, is missing. No one seems to know where she is. D.D. partners with Detective Bobby Dodge to search for the missing ch...

It’s the worst kind of call for law enforcement to receive. It comes from one of their own, a Massachusetts state trooper who’s been involved in a shooting in her own home and her six-year old daughter is missing. Trooper Tessa Leone sits battered on her kitchen floor with her husband lying dead nearby, killed by bullets that came from her gun. Massachusetts State Detective Bobby Dodge immediately contacts Boston Detective Sergeant D. D. Warren when he arrives on scene. The more they investigate...

4.25 Stumped StarsLisa Gardner starts this book with a murder and a missing child and doles out the details in small chunks. There are alternating narrators and each chapter gives us more insight. I was totally on the wrong track thanks to her clever writing!Detective Sergeant D.D. Warren with the Boston Police Department is brought into the case because the murder was committed by the victim's wife Tessa, a state police trooper. Tessa is beaten up so it looks like a simple case of self-defense,...

First off, the TWs: kidnapping, murder, plenty of gun and knife violence, pregnancy, intimate partner violenceWHAT EVEN WAS THIS BOOK.I live in Boston, okay? Where these books are ostensibly set. And so far, they've been pretty okay on the details. Well, the first couple were, and they've been deteriorating. And then we get to THIS book.NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPE NOPEAnd it's the kind of shit that would take literally ninety seconds of internetting. A hospital IN BOSTON with a Wal-Mart a few

"Love You More" by Lisa Gardner was an amazing novel.What will a mother do to protect her daughter.I couldn't put this book down.It is a mystery about a mother, Tess, charged with murdering her husband and possibly her 6-yr-old daughter, Sophie, as well. The Boston police arrest Tess, a state trooper who doesn’t have much faith in cops because of her past experience. Tess lies to the police and devises a plan to find her daughter’s kidnapper on her own and rescue her daughter against all odds no...

Don't be shocked but this is my first Lisa Gardner read and I loved it. Tessa, the protagonist, a law enforcement officer and mother of Sophie, has shot and killed her husband after a brutal beating. Little Sophie is gone and nowhere to be found. Tessa is arrested after several clues have shown that she is lying about the details. It is up to Tessa, the mama bear, to strategically escape the confines of her closely guarded hospital room and find her little girl. A brilliant start to a series. I

"... there really were multiple layers of Hell, and no matter how deep you'd thought you'd fallen, there was still someplace deeper and darker to go."Tessa Leoni is a Massachusetts State Trooper. She has been beaten almost to death. Her husband, Brian, is dead in their kitchen. At first glance it would appear to be another tragic case of a battered wife defending herself. But their six year old daughter, Sophie, is missing. And Tessa's story is full of holes and inconsistencies. Holes and incons...