Yikes, this was bad. I was happy to see some older Lisa Gardner books on the shelf of a vacation rental, since I had just read and enjoyed her latest: “Before She Disappeared”. This earlier series is so hollow compared to that one! The reader is lurching from psychopath on the loose, to endangered, battered wife, to nihilistic sexy guy fighting with his sister about her sexual abuse. These cutouts with Big Problems are not believable and the plot is overblown with a severed head, keystone cops and sex scenes. I skipped a lot to see how it concluded because it was so irritating. I’m glad the author developed past this level.