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Detective D. D. Warren: Book 1

Alone (2005) (edit title/settings)

by Lisa Gardner (Author) (edit contributors)

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Gardner keeps readers spellbound—not just by her plot but by the beautifully realized character of Massachusetts police sniper Bobby Dodge.

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Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Alone . . . Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge watches a tense hostage standoff unfold through the scope of his sniper rifle. Just across the street, in wealthy Back Bay, Boston, an armed man has barricaded himself with his wife and child. The man’s finger tightens on the trigger and Dodge has only a split second to react . . . and forever pay the consequences. Alone . . . that’s where the nightmare began for cool, beautiful, and dangerously sexy Catherine Rose Gagnon. Twenty-five years ago, she was buried underground during a month-long nightmare of abduction and abuse. Now her husband has just been killed. Her father-in-law, the powerful Judge Gagnon, blames Catherine for his son’s death . . . and for the series of unexplained illnesses that have sent her own young son repeatedly to the hospital. Alone . . . a madman survived solitary confinement in a maximum security prison where he’d done hard time for the most sadistic of crimes. Now he walks the streets a free man, invisible, anonymous . . . and filled with an unquenchable rage for vengeance. What brings them together is a moment of violence—but what connects them is a passion far deeper and much more dangerous. For a killer is loose who’s woven such an intricate web of evil that no one is above suspicion, no one is beyond harm, and no one will see death coming until it has them cornered, helpless, and alone.

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  • “Richard Umbrio went on trial six months later. And three weeks into that, Catherine took the stand with her plain blue dress and polished Mary Janes. She pointed her finger one last time. Richard Umbrio went away for life.”
  • “Bobby Dodge had never cared for November. Today did nothing to change his mind.”
  • “Your family has changed, but it hasn't healed. Part of forgiving your father is also giving yourself permission to hate him for what he did. Until you do that, you're not going to move forward, and you're not honestly going to love him for who he is now.”
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  • “You have to find something, Officer Dodge. Something that anchors you, something that keeps you looking forward, even on the bad days, when you're tempted to look back.”
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  • “Men may be violent, Officer Dodge, but let's face it—women are cruel.”
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  • Funny how some people could seemingly have every advantage in life and still be so royally fucked up.
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  • Do you know the difference between a shooter and a sniper? A shooter has a pulse. A sniper doesn't.
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  • CATHERINE ROSE GAGNON
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  • “Someone you loved once left you and never looked back. Now, all these years later, you're still waiting for people to leave, Bobby. In fact, the longer a woman stays, the more anxious it makes you. So you engineer little scenarios, little tests. The woman will either fight for you or she'll leave you. Either one eases your anxiety. At least temporarily.”
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  • “Police stations. One guy drinks a glass of water and everyone else takes a piss.
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  • Munchausen by proxy.” “Shit,” Bobby said. “The judge told me a little bit about his daughter-in-law, Catherine. He wanted to know if someone with her background might fit the profile of a person capable of Munchausen's.
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  • preternaturally . . . quiet. No undue noise, no undue movements. She imagined he'd do very well with long stretches of silence. When talking to this man, he didn't come to you, you came to him.
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  • Read on for a preview from Lisa Gardner’s upcoming novel LOVE YOU MORE
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First Sentence edit see section history

HE'D PUT IN a fifteen-hour shift the night the call came in.

Series & Lists edit see section history

This is book 1 of 7 in Detective D. D. Warren. (standard series)

Followed by Hide.

This is book 1 of 1 in Bobby Dodge. (standard series)

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Lisa Gardner (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Bantam
Country: USA
Publication Date: January 11, 2005
ISBN: 978-0553802535
Page Count: 336

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  • Library of Congress: PS3557.A7132A79 2005
  • Dewey: 813.54

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