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The Neighbor (Detective D.D. Warren #3)

The Neighbor - Lisa Gardner

bookshelves: summer-2011, mystery-thriller, fraudio, north-americas, published-2009, families, hackers-and-computers, psychology, too-sexy-for-maiden-aunts

Read from July 03 to 05, 2011


 

Read by Emily Janice Card, Kirby Heyborne, and Kristen Potter.
Unabridged.

Told from multiple points of view this makes for a very gripping read.

blurb - Detective D.D. Warren investigates the disappearance of a young wife and mother from her South Boston home. The only witness is her 4 year old daughter.

Highlighting MWWS - the Missing White Woman Syndrome, a vernacular term for the disproportionately greater degree of coverage in television, radio, newspaper and magazine reporting of a misfortune, most often a missing person case, involving a young, attractive, white, upper-middle class woman or girl. This degree of coverage is contrasted with cases concerning a missing male, or missing females of other ethnicities, socio-economic classes or physical attractiveness. (wiki sourced)

 

This is what happened...

It was a case guaranteed to spark a media feeding frenzy--a young mother, blond and pretty, disappears without a trace from her South Boston home, leaving behind her four-year-old daughter as the only witness and her handsome, secretive husband as the prime suspect.