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Thrillers: Boston stars in Lisa Gardner s latest
By Jon Land
“Before She Disappeared” (Dutton, 336 pages, $27) is former Rhode Island resident Lisa Gardner’s first stand-alone thriller in years, and, boy, does it stand out as a masterpiece of post-modern noir in the vein of the great Dennis Lehane.
Gardner is also at home in Lehane’s backyard of the working-class Boston neighborhoods, Mattapan in this case. The book introduces us to Frankie Elkin, a woman with more than her share of skeletons in the closet who’s dedicated to finding lost souls literally in the form of often long-missing persons. The “disappeared” in this case is a high school student who’s been missing for a year when Frankie takes up the case. Speaking of skeletons, she’s going to rattle a whole bunch in peeling back the dark layers to reveal the terrifying truth buried in this particularly insular community.