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The Disappearance (Luke Garrison, Bk 1)
The Disappearance - Luke Garrison, Bk 1
Author: J. F. Freedman
Emma Lancaster, the privileged fourteen-year-old daughter of a Montecito media tycoon vanishes from her bedroom in the dead of night. Eight days later, her battered body is discovered along an isolated hiking trail. Incriminating evidence has led to the arrest of a close family friend. It has also led defense attorney Luke Garrison to suspect so...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780451197429
ISBN-10: 0451197429
Publication Date: 9/1/1999
Pages: 486
Rating:
  • Currently 3.7/5 Stars.
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3.7 stars, based on 93 ratings
Publisher: Signet Book
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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kannth avatar reviewed The Disappearance (Luke Garrison, Bk 1) on + 58 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 3
This book had me checking the end of the book because I couldn't couldn't figure it out and I wanted to know so bad "Who done it.".
reviewed The Disappearance (Luke Garrison, Bk 1) on + 3 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
I do not usually review books, but this was a GREAT book! Good story line, characters and nice twist at the end - could not put it down.
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Helpful Score: 1
Not so bad it's unreadable, but has WAY too many flaws leaving me wondering A) how stupid does he think his readers are 2) how did he miss them 3) why is he paying his editor.

Many are plot driven preventing me from mentioning w/o issuing a spoiler alert. I have no problem with a little scientific/procedural license but this was pathetic. I wish I knew someone who has read it recently just so I could vent on the list of issues.

Other errors were more mundane - it's 9am in one paragragh when the judge calls gavels the court into session. Four (or so) paragraphs later - after waiting sometime time for a character to show-up in court it somehow became 8:15???? If there weren't so many plot problems I may not have notiiced (or cared), unfortunately there are. But if you noticed I switched from alpha to numeric listing in the 1st paragraph of this review - the book will drive you up the wall.
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reviewed The Disappearance (Luke Garrison, Bk 1) on + 174 more book reviews
Any book that begins with a first sentence like this one does has me hooked for the next 486 pages. "The moon, two days past full, hangs low and forbiddingly cold, diamond hard in the late winter dead-of-night sky." This sets the stage for a shocking story of a 14-year-old girl from a very affluent family who goes missing from her California home in the middle of the night during a sleepover with two of her teenage friends. The parents, Glenna and Doug Lancaster, are distraught over the disappearance of Emma,their only child. Eight days later Emma's body is found.

An arrest is finally made for the kidnapping and murder of Emma Lancaster, and a lawyer who had left his California practice several years ago is convinced to come back and defend Joe Allison, the media celebrity, who is accused of the crime. Luke Garrison is back in the courtroom and up against some very tough odds to beat.

The majority of the book is taken up with Luke's research and interviews before the trial and then the explosive trial. There isn't a dull moment as one surprising find after another comes to light. There are so many twists and turns along the way that as soon as I thought I'd solved the case something else would pop up in the evidence and I was wrong again. But the end does come and with it a twist that I never saw coming.

The Disappearance is a very well and tightly written legal thriller that has very well-developed characters that I cared about. I wasn't anxious for the book to end simply because I didn't want to leave the suspense of that courtroom and the characters themselves. (from my Amazon review)
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Very gripping murder investigation. Hard to put down.
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Another great read from Freedman... intriguing!


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