Touch and Go by Lisa Gardner

Lisa Gardner is a prolific author who has not previously been reviewed in MRB, and I can’t say that I’ll rush back to read another one of her crime novels. The good news, it was interesting to read one more woman’s take in the crime genre. She wrote about parallel relationships of women and their families among cops and victims – a nice touch, and one that I never read in books by male authors. I also thought it was clever and hysterical when she went straight to the hair stylist of one of the victims to get the real dirt on what was happening in the woman’s life. However, the story was preposterous and the ending was too predictable. At best, I’d give this effort a “B” or “B-“ and it does not get my recommendation.