The latest work of Lisa Gardner, author of Say Goodbye, is a book with more twists than the Monteagle grade. Like that stretch of truck-tipping highway, The Neighbor can leave a reader breathless and more than a little dizzy. When a pretty young mom goes missing in a manner certain to make Nancy Grace drool, seasoned detective D.D. Warren catches the case. The title character is a convicted sex offender living down the street, who, along with the missing schoolteacher's husband and creepy estranged dad, soon becomes a suspect. But everyone in the novel—suspects, victims, casual acquaintances—appears to be damaged goods, laden with heavy secrets that bounce off each other like boulders tumbling down a mountainside. Their gravity yanks the story to a thundering conclusion. Lisa Gardner reads and signs The Neighbor.
Wed., June 24, 7 p.m., 2009
