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Alone  (Detective D.D. Warren #1) by Lisa Gardner (Author), Anna Fields (Narrator)

My friend DeAnn suggested that we buddy read the eleven book Detective D.D. Warren series together and I'm glad that she did. But I can't promise that I'm not going to laugh at D.D. Warren every single time she shows up for work in her stilettos. If I were her partner, I think I'd have reservations about working with someone who could break an ankle on the job, due to footwear choices. 

Despite this being labeled as a D.D. Warren book, she doesn't show up until about the halfway point and even then she's in the background, for the most part. This book belongs to Massachusetts State Trooper Bobby Dodge, who kills his first man ever when he has to use his sniper skills to kill a man who is threatening his wife and son with a gun. That one shot is going to be the ruin of Bobby's life as the man's father, a judge, is going to destroy Bobby for killing his son, unless Bobby lies and blames the wife, Catherine, for setting up her husband. The wife was the twelve year old victim of a kidnapper/pedophile decades ago and now that horrible man is out of prison and has some deadly jobs to do in return for this early release. 

This story is fast and it's impossible to know if Catherine is just a victim or deeply involved in manipulating circumstances to meet her needs. The judge and his wife are highly suspect and all we can know is that a four year old boy is suffering greatly because of the failings of the adults in his life. I look forward to the second book in this series. 

Published January 11th 2005