A review by mcmbennett
Crash & Burn by Lisa Gardner

4.0

Nicky Frank has escaped death a second time after surviving a terrible car crash down the side of a mountain. When she is found after crawling up the mountain to the side of the road, a search is started for the child, Vera, who she deliriously claims is missing. Search dogs, however, do not find a scent for the child, which puzzles the police. They are further puzzled when her husband arrives at the hospital and informs them that they do not have any children and Nicky has recently suffered three head traumas. Nicky is often delusional and has lost blocks of her memory, but is haunted by her past. She was heavily intoxicated with Scotch at the time of the accident, but as the police begin investigating, it turns out that all is not as it seems. It is not clear during the investigation what is real and what is not or who is telling the truth and who is not. Wyatt, the police investigator on the case, realizes that there is more going on here than is obvious and requests the assistance of his girlfriend, private detective Tessa Leoni.

This was my first Lisa Gardner book, and I really enjoyed the storyline with twists and turns that kept me guessing throughout this intriguing page-turner. We read this for our genre study at the library, and several of us were confused that it’s labeled a Tessa Leoni series book. Even though she was called in to help, she wasn’t really the primary investigator and really didn’t have a large presence in the book.

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