Never
Tell is – in my humble opinion – highly-recommended
reading. (Review by Barry Meehan)
Lisa Gardner is the number one New York
Times best-selling author of 20 previous novels. Her Detective D.D. Warren
series includes Find Her, Fear Nothing,
Catch Me, Love You More and The
Neighbor, which won the International Thriller of the Year Award.
I wouldn’t want to reveal the plot of her
latest offering, Never Tell, but it
has one of the most intriguing opening chapters I have ever read. A very
pregnant woman, Evie, returns home one day from her teaching job to find that a
murder has been committed. What she does after she discovers the body is
intriguing and eye-opening, to say the least.
As the story progresses, we find that this
is the second time Evie has been a suspect in a murder investigation, with both
of them, 16 years apart, being investigated by Detective D.D. Warren. The
original killing was ruled as accidental, but two killings don’t seem to be
coincidence. So is Evie a victim, or could she be about to get away with murder
– again?
To discover the truth behind both killings,
D.D. Warren has to re-investigate the original case, and discover family
secrets that are dark and dangerous.
The story is told through the eyes of three
women – Evie, D.D. Warren and Flora, one of D.D.’s confidential informants, who
survived a horrendous kidnapping and incarceration at the hands of a psychotic
killer who is part of a ring of abusers on the ‘dark web’, the murky and
seldom-accessed part of the Internet.
The story moves along at a frantic pace,
with many plot twists and turns, all totally believable. David Baldacci,
himself a thriller writer of note, refers to Never Tell as a ‘tsunami of a thriller’, and this it certainly is,
never letting up as more and more secrets are revealed. “Never Tell” is – in my
humble opinion – highly-recommended reading.
Never
Tell is published by Penguin Random House South
Africa. RRP R290. ISBN: 9781780897738 – Barry Meehan
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