Say Goodbye

Say Goodbye is a disturbing tale of malevolence that begins with a young girl, making out with a boy along a country road; it flashes to her arrival home to find her house locked up. When she accepts a ride from a stranger, the scene is set for tragedy...

Flash forward to Kimberly Quincy, pregnant FBI agent, and workaholic extraordinaire. She and her husband, another agent, disagree frequently about how long or whether or not she will continue on her current hard-driving path.

But then Kimberly seemingly falls into a case so twisted, so compelling, and she cannot turn it down. Someone is killing prostitutes...someone who calls himself Dinchara (an anagram for arachnid, because of his obsession with these eight-legged creatures). And nobody can discover the bodies or any physical evidence, or even any clues that go anywhere. And then they seem to catch a break. Their best clues come from a victim (witness) who comes forward, supposedly to help.

She, however, turns out to be just as twisted as Dinchara. And, of course, you come to see that the abusers were once victims, too.

Alternating chapters reveal the thoughts and feelings of the killer, leading the reader toward an understanding of his motivations. It soon becomes clear that he, too, was once a victim...

As the agents close in on the killer, twists and turns prevent them from finding him. Just when they think they finally have him, he eludes them once again.

The surprising connections begin to come together at the end, and the reader is blown away by the big reveal.

Compelling book...Almost too sordid and graphic, even for me, with my background in working with child abuse and abusers.

Read only if you have the stomach for it.

I wish I had read the reviews before I began this book. Usually I enjoy Gardner's books but this one maked me sick to my stomach. Perhaps because I have a child the abuse scenes make me want to cry. I actually got to the point where I completely skipped them because I was so disturbed. I would not recommend this book to anyone and I must stay that never have I ever been so repulsed by a book before. Even after finishing it, I am still nauseous from the graphic descriptions.

Yes, there ARE some disturbing elements to this story as others have noted, but you expect something along those lines when you pick up a suspense/thriller, right? I do anyway.

Extraordinarily pleased w/ this entire book.... couldn't put it down & then finished this morning what I didn't last night. AWESOME characters, plot, dialogue - loved it all around. Can't wait for more!

I hate to not finish a book and I truly have loved Lisa Gardner's writings in the pst but....I just couldn't get into this one. It was confusing, disturbing and I just didn't like it. Nuf said.

The heroine is an uncaring egotist. The bad guy's a weirdo freak. The ancillary characters are the only likable people in this story. I found myself rooting for the molting spider. Gardner is overboard. A waste of the purchase price.