Lisa Gardner’s detective D. D. Warren is back in Never Tell, a really interesting book – and fun to read. This is the 11th book in the series (which I only discovered in 2017 with Look For Me, which featured both D.D. Warren and Flora Dane. Flora first appeared as a crime victim in Find Her, which was #8 in the Warren series. And guess what? Flora Dane is also in Never Tell, which begins once again with a murder and gets darker from there.
D.D. is called to a scene where Conrad Carter has been murdered, shot three times in his home office. His pregnant wife Evie is holding the gun, which was used not only to shoot Conrad, but his computer (shot twelve times!).
D. D. recognizes Evie as a teenager who shot and killed her father twelve years ago. D.D. worked that case, when it was ruled that Evie killed her father by accident. For D.D., two coincidental murders is too many.
When Flora happens to see a TV news story about the murder of Conrad Carter, she recognizes him as a man she met in a bar with her kidnapper who basically tried to sell her to Conrad. Flora feels a lot of guilt that she never tracked Conrad down, as he was apparently trying to help her escape her captor, so she is determined to learn the truth of his murder.
Along the way, D.D. and Flora wonder just how many secrets one family can have, as they deal with Evie’s weird mother, and keep turning up more and more details…OK., clues.
I really like this series, and will look for any future books by Ms. Gardner. Four stars.