A
really good novel starring Detective Annalisa Vega. This is a cold case where The Lovelorn Killer
murdered seven women then disappeared. This
is a great mystery. It pulled me in from
the first couple of pages. The novel was
suspenseful, I thought I knew who it was a couple of times only to be proven
wrong. If you want a book to pick up and
read through in the first sitting this book is for you. I loved the suspenseful twists and turns to
this book. I’ve never read Joanna
Schaffhausen, but I’ll be looking for her next book!
Gone For Good is the first in a
new mystery series from award-winning author Joanna Schaffhausen, featuring
Detective Annalisa Vega, in which a cold case heats up.
The Lovelorn Killer murdered seven women, ritually binding them and leaving
them for dead before penning them gruesome love letters in the local papers.
Then he disappeared, and after twenty years with no trace of him, many believe
that he’s gone for good.
Not Grace Harper. A grocery store manager by day, at night Grace uses her
snooping skills as part of an amateur sleuth group. She believes the Lovelorn
Killer is still living in the same neighborhoods that he hunted in, and if she
can figure out how he selected his victims, she will have the key to his
identity.
Detective Annalisa Vega lost someone she loved to the killer. Now she’s at a
murder scene with the worst kind of déjà vu: Grace Harper lies bound and dead
on the floor, surrounded by clues to the biggest murder case that Chicago
homicide never solved. Annalisa has the chance to make it rights and to heal
her family, but first, she has to figure out what Grace knew—how to see a
killer who may be standing right in front of you. This means tracing his steps
back to her childhood, peering into dark corners she hadn’t acknowledged
before, and learning that despite everything the killer took, she has still so
much more to lose.
