Live to Tell: A Detective D. D. Warren Novel

Summary

He knows everything about you—including the first placeyou’ll hide.

On a warm summer night in one of Boston’s working-classneighborhoods, an unthinkable crime has been committed: Four members of afamily have been brutally murdered. The father—and possible suspect—now liesclinging to life in the ICU. Murder-suicide? Or something worse? Veteran policedetective D. D. Warren is certain of only one thing: There’s more to this casethan meets the eye.

Danielle Burton is a survivor, a dedicated nurse whosepassion is to help children at a locked-down pediatric psych ward. But sheremains haunted by a family tragedy that shattered her life nearly twenty-fiveyears ago. The dark anniversary is approaching, and when D. D. Warren and herpartner show up at the facility, Danielle immediately realizes: It has startedagain.

A devoted mother, Victoria Oliver has a hard timeremembering what normalcy is like. But she will do anything to ensure that hertroubled son has some semblance of a childhood. She will love him no matterwhat. Nurture him. Keep him safe. Protect him. Even when the threat comes fromwithin her own house.

In New York Timesbestselling author Lisa Gardner’s most compelling work of suspense to date, thelives of these three women unfold and connect in unexpected ways, as sins fromthe past emerge—and stunning secrets reveal just how tightly blood ties canbind. Sometimes the most devastating crimes are the ones closest to home.