Viva Para Contar

Lisa Gardner is one of few authors guaranteed to make me lose sleep (as in I can't put her book down.)

Live to Tell is book 4 in the D.D. Warren series and another ripping good yarn.

I challenge any parent to read this book and not be moved. You'll want to go and hug your kids more than usual throughout.

I could hardly put this one down, a stellar five star read, until the end, where the villain's motivation becomes tangled and the reader is left unsure what really drove him to commit such acts of mind-blowing violence.

It pained me to take off that star but for me, the ending detracted from an otherwise stirling story.