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Dead Weight (The Lizzy Gardner Series #2) [Kindle Edition]

T.R. Ragan
3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)

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Private investigator Lizzy Gardner knows a thing or two about living in the past. As a teenager, she was terrorized by a serial killer, an ordeal that haunted her for more than a decade before the maniac was finally stopped. So when terminally ill Ruth Fullerton begs Lizzy to reopen the cold case into her daughter’s disappearance, it’s hard to say no. More than twenty years have passed since Carol Fullerton vanished, abandoning her car by the side of a California freeway. The police wrote her off as a runaway, yet something tells Lizzy the truth isn’t so simple…

Carol’s cold case has barely begun to thaw when Andrea Kramer shows up at Lizzy’s door. Andrea’s sister, Diane, has been missing for months, and she’s convinced a charismatic weight-loss guru—part Tony Robbins and part Richard Simmons—is responsible. Diane was obese, but could her obsession with losing weight have led to her disappearance?

As if two active missing persons cases weren’t enough, Lizzy is also trying to manage her two teenage assistants, including one as wounded and haunted by her past as Lizzy.

Fast-paced and deftly plotted, this impressive follow-up to the best-selling Abducted finds Sacramento PI Lizzy Gardner in over her head—but more determined than ever to help those no one else will.

About the Author

T. R. Ragan grew up in a family of five girls in Lafayette, California. An avid traveler, her wanderings have carried her to Ireland, the Netherlands, China, Thailand, and Nepal, where she narrowly survived being chased by a killer elephant. Before devoting herself to writing fiction, she worked as a legal secretary for a large corporation. She is the author of Abducted, the first Lizzy Gardner book. Writing under the name Theresa Ragan, she is also the author of Return of the Rose, A Knight in Central Park, Taming Mad Max, Finding Kate Huntley,and Having My Baby.She and her family live in Sacramento.


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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 1206 KB
  • Print Length: 312 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 161218510X
  • Publisher: Thomas & Mercer (17 July 2012)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B007ZDKDS4
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  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #4,478 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Hard Work. 6 Oct 2012
By T. Walker VINE™ VOICE
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I found it almost impossible to get into this book and after a hundred pages I gave up on it.
The plot line has holes in it you could drive a truck through. Ms Ragan attempts to use the flashback technique to tell the story, but she hasn't pulled it off. The story jumps around over a twenty year period and all this achieves is to confuse the reader. The characters are thinly drawn and hardly credible. I couldn't get involved with them or indeed care about them.
I'm sorry, but I have to recommend passing on this one.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By Brian R. Martin TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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This is the second thriller that features the Californian private investigator Lizzy Gardner. There are several related strands in the book. One centres on the disappearance twenty years ago of a young girl, Carol Fullerton. Her mother, terminally ill with cancer, hires Lizzy to find Carol, or at least find out what happened to her. Shortly afterwards Lizzy is also hired by the sister of another missing young woman, Diane Kramer, who six months previously emptied her saving account and vanished. Diane was obese and her sister Andrea suspects that a weight reduction `guru' called Anthony Melbourne had something to do with her disappearance and wants Lizzy to investigate him. Melbourne is a control freak and has links to several of the characters in the book. In both cases things are not all they seem, with a collection of rather sinister relatives and friends who have their own histories they want to conceal, and that Lizzy gradually uncovers. Drug and alcohol addiction, pedophilia, and murder all feature strongly.

It is not just the clients who have tangled histories. Lizzy is still recovering from a traumatic experience as a teenager, when she was kidnapped by a notorious serial killer and had to witness him torture and kill several victims. She is still vulnerable, and this is making it difficult for her to commit to her enthusiastic boy friend, who is pressing her to move in with him. Her two part-time assistants also have their own troubles, and one has become so twisted by her childhood sexual exploitation that she commences brutal revenge attacks on her abusers. So, a complex thriller with much violence towards the end. But the various themes, both professional and personal, are well integrated and there is nothing jarring in the narrative; no unbelievable coincidences and the like.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars I love Lizzy Gardner . 8 Mar 2013
By Mrs. T. SALMON TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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I really like this series of books I read the first one and then this one straight afterwards. I found the characters really good and we learnt more about them .It didn't rehash the first book too much. The two cases Lizzy had to cover were interesting.There once again is some we very dark moments. I love the flawed ,damaged Lizzy. I can't put these books down once I start.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Not as good as the first one 27 Jan 2013
By M. R. N. Shackelford TOP 1000 REVIEWER
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The first book in this series was quite good (Abducted) and followed the story of a mad kidnapper who had captured the heroine in her teens, and how she got her revenge.

This book takes off where the last story ended, and can't quite make up its mind what the story is.
The main heroine (Lizzy the PI) is looking into the disappearance of people on diets (?) but there is a side story which is remarkably similar to the Girl With The Dragon Tattoo... somewhat unnecessary - or filling in for a weak main plot?

There are also lots of odd bits of story that don't go anywhere - or aren't explained. The herorine's boyfriend appears to have a beautiful neighbour who knows all about him - but this is never explained, and the heroine doesn't bother following up her suspicions - odd for a PI.

Shame as I quite enjoyed the first book in the series... not sure I will bother with the next one.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Truly Brilliant 15 Jan 2013
By Wendy Jones TOP 1000 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
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I picked this book up thinking it was going to be a nice gentle read. How wrong could I be. This book is fantastic and I could not put it down meaning I spent the whole of last night and the whole of today reading. There are multiple strands to this story and you need to pay attention. To keep up with them all but it is well worth it. I found it to be on the edge of your seat fast paced and truly enjoyable. The twists and turns come out of nowhere and move you on a different track. The characters are extremely well drawn, many with their own tortured back stories and I found I could picture them perfectly. One of them I couldn't really take to in the beginning but by the ned I was rooting for her 100%. I loved this book and would highly recommend it to someone who likes a well paced murder mystery. The only thing I would add is that I got slightly mixed up and read this before book 1. It does reveal a little bit about what happens in the first book so you may want to read book 1 first.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre... 22 Dec 2012
Format:Kindle Edition
The book is readable. Hayley's storyline was too unbelievable for me and hard to bear so I dreaded that. There were possibly too many characters and it was sometimes difficult to remember who was who, but that may have just been me having a hard time keeping everyone straight because the story just didn't grab me. I really could've lived without the sex scene. It was contrived and very cliche, even using the phrase "in all his glory." Sheesh...made me think of those old Harlequin romances....gross! She used that phrase in the sex scene in Abducted as well, which even added to the cliche (and the nausea) in the sequel. I finished it, won't read it again, and will forget it, probably sooner rather than later. The first in the series had a better plot and was easier to read with the plot pulling you through.
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