I just reviewed Still See You Everywhere by Lisa Gardner. #StillSeeYouEverywhere #NetGalley

This book starts off really well but unfortunately the “wheels fall off” after the first couple of chapters..

As soon as Frankie hits Hawaii, the story becomes more of a Natural History lesson than a thriller so it tires easily. I found myself skipping through big chucks of narration about flowers, crabs, spiders to TRY to get back to the plot but the book continues to go off at “tangents” that do nothing to move the story along.

Thank you to the author, publishers Century and NetGalley UK for access to this as an advance reader’s ebook. This is an honest and voluntary review.

Frankie Elkin’s drive to find the forgotten missing has taken her to many places. But the building site for a billionaire’s paradise atoll brings it’s own unique challenges. Isolation, cannibal crabs, and the sister of a charismatic serial killer.

A third return for Frankie Elkin was always going to be a welcome one. Frankie’s off the grid living creates lots of interesting plot opportunities. Bringing her into contact with communities who by choice or circumstance are overlooked or unknown to the majority of the world.

It’s just as well I was already familiar with Frankie though. As it meant it took a while to realise that the initial set-up of a serial killer on death row asking for help to find the sister she’s lost had fallen way into the background for most of the first half of the book. Like to the extent that I began to wonder if it was going to be more than a starting point, which worried me as I liked the dynamic Frankie had in her meeting with the Beautiful Butcher. The brutal (and beautiful) young serial killer who believed her abusive ex had kidnapped her baby sister.

The plotting does come together of course, although I’m still not sure if it fully delivered in that initial promise. The final resolution to the situation felt both inevitable and rushed. Which was slightly anti-climactic after some really effective tension building.

It’s Lisa Gardner so of course it’s tense and readable with engaging characters. But, I think there was room for more time with the main threat of the plot.

This is the latest in Lisa Gardner's Frankie Elkin series, she is an expert at finding the invisible, the missing persons that the world deems as not important. Still reeling and traumatised from her previous Wyoming case, Frankie is taking the Greyhound bus to a prison, at the request from lawyer Victoria Tennow, to what is to become her most surprising client, a death row prisoner. The Beautiful Butcher, Kaylee Pierson, is soon to be executed. Pierson, a product of an abusive home, lured 18 men from bars and killed them, unrepentent, she has never denied it and has not sought to appeal her death sentence. It is clear she would happily kill again but she wants Frankie to locate and help rescue her lost younger sister, Lealani, apparently abducted in Hawaii at the age of 5 by her ex, tech billionaire Sanders MacManus.

MacManus is currently in the process of building an exclusive eco-resort on a remote tropical atoll, Pomaiki, utilising a small group of skilled experts and development professionals, an interdependent team, operating under project manager, Vaughan. Employment is secured for Frankie, and she flies into a situation and location she has no experience of, facing the challenges of the intense humidity, sun, and being constantly drenched by the heavy rainstorms. Paradise is mesmerisingly beautiful, the teeming birds, the wildlife, not to mention the joys of Bert and Ernie, the manta rays, plus there are the terrifying coconut crabs. However, there are real serpents too, the most dangerous being of the human variety. In a narrative where little is as it appears, there are dead bodies, twists and turns galore, as Frankie finds herself tested to her limits, will she live to tell the tale?

You will need to suspend your disbelief to enjoy this latest Frankie outing, she is not at her strongest here, but I found myself gripped, turning the pages as fast as possible, as the tension and suspense reach sky high levels. What I liked were a number of the supporting cast, such as Charlie, Ann and Trudy. My highlights include the top notch atmospheric sense of location, there are rich and informative descriptions of the scenic island that make you feel as if you are right there. There is fun, banter and humour that helps lighten the heavy feel of menace that lingers throughout the novel. I cannot wait to see where Frankie goes next! Many thanks to the publisher for an ARC.

"Still See You Everywhere" by Lisa Gardener's is full of suspense, intrigue, mystery and action.

It's the 3rd instalment in a series about a freelance missing person finder - Frankie Elkin of no fixed abode - who is asked by a woman on America's Death Row to help find her sister, whom she believes was kidnapped by her former lover. Frankie travels undercover to a very remote atoll off Hawaii and becomes part of the local crew, who are setting the groundwork for a luxury resort. There are some mysterious characters and odd behaviours going on, but naturally, the reader doesn't get the full picture until almost the end.

I had not read the first two books but this didn't matter as plenty of Frankie's background was provided. The descriptions of the location, people, wildlife (goodness, those coconut crabs!) and weather were very vivid.

My 4 stars are because the plot contained a few unreasonable coincidences and lucky escapes, but this is fiction after all. Sit back and enjoy!

Loved this book.
Couldn't put it down and read it at lightning speed. It had me gripped from the start.
Fantastic!

I was unsure about reading this book once I realised it was part of a series but I needed have worried because it read well on its own. It was very fast-paced and exciting and it didn’t take me long to get into it and want to find out what was going to happen. Very enjoyable.

As a person who specialises in finding missing people, Frankie Elkin has seen a lot of strange things. But her current case really is in a different league. After all, how often is it that you find yourself working on behalf of a serial killer?

But Frankie is now on a dangerous assignment to a tropical destination, where a millionaire is allegedly holding his ex-girlfriend in captivity on a remote Hawaiian Island. Or at least, that is what her brother the serial killer claims...

So Frankie must operate undercover in order to find Lani. In this hostile environment, not only does she have to avoid discovery, she also needs to deal with the the people around her - as well as the island fauna - neither of which are particularly welcoming.

Now, the question is, can Frankie find this woman and get them both off the island alive?

This is a fast-paced and suspenseful adventure that will keep the reader's attention fully engaged. Buckle in for a wild ride, with a few surprises! An enjoyable read. It gets 3.5 stars.

An unputdownable read! I couldn’t put this book down. I really enjoyed this book and meeting the characters.
Stuck on a remote island where not everyone is who you think they are and natural dangers are everywhere. I enjoyed the ending and felt that it was fitting for the story.

I find myself torn about this book. On one hand, it's incredibly entertaining and had me hooked from start to finish. Despite its hefty four-hundred-plus pages, I breezed through it in just a couple of sittings. However, there were moments where the plot felt a bit too convenient and implausible, with some rather glaring coincidences. But what really made me roll my eyes was the cliché use of the "no phones allowed" or "no cell service" trope in thrillers. In my over twenty years of owning a cell phone, I've never encountered such situations, making it feel like a lazy narrative device.

Despite these gripes, I have to admit that the book kept me guessing until the end. With a plethora of characters, there were plenty of red herrings and potential suspects, leading to an engaging game of cat and mouse. Even though I found most of the characters unlikeable, including those being stalked, I appreciated the inclusion of a male victim of stalking.

What truly sets this book apart is its unique premise, which immediately draws the reader in. The pacing is relentless, with non-stop action throughout, culminating in an intense, if somewhat unbelievable, finale. It's easy to see why it has garnered high ratings and widespread appeal. Despite its occasional leaps of logic and the over-the-top ending, the journey to get there is undeniably entertaining.

I highly recommend reading the author's note at the end. It's incredibly raw and personal, adding an extra layer of depth to the narrative.

Still See You Everywhere, following freelance missing persons investigator Frankie Elkin, is the third in the Frankie series but would work well as a standalone (in fact, one of my slight complaints about the book is that for those of us who have read the previous ones, there was slightly too much repetition of Frankie's backstory).

This book finds her sent to a remote, privately owned island off the coast of Hawai'i at the behest of a convicted serial killer, who asks Frankie to locate her younger sister - believed to have gone missing years ago, there's now reason to believe that she's the ward - or trafficking victim? - of the billionaire owner of said island.

Similarly to the previous book in the series, there is a focus in Still See You Everywhere on survival in the wild, which works well at ramping up the tension (although at the same time I do find myself missing the urban Boston setting of Gardner's previous books - can we please have a new Dee Dee book soon???) and the twist was cleverly played out.

Frankie Elkin is back!!! This time she’s gone to a remote island searching for the missing sister of a female serial killer.

I love how Lisa Gardener writes. She builds a story really well start to finish, keeping you guessing the whole time. I was delighted that we didn’t spend too much time in Frankie’s past this time. I really enjoy Frankie. She evokes something in me.

The characters were really well written in this story, I was creeped out by the crabs, spiders etc at times but that’s just me. Overall a great read that I really enjoyed.

I can’t wait until I see Frankie again!

Oh boy, I did not like this book one bit. Sorry to all the reviewers who have given it 5 stars, did we read the same book? I requested this title because I quite enjoyed the previous Frankie book, One Step too Far. This one however, to me was just a far fetched convoluted tale.
Frankie is asked by a prisoner on death row to look for her sister, Lani, kidnapped as a child by her nasty ex.
Frankie is sent under cover by Kaylees (death row prisoner…she murdered 18 men) attorney to a remote Hawaiian island to look for Lani. So far so good, but then the story seemed to just flag. For someone looking for a child who might be with her guardian under duress, I thought some finess might be called for. Nope Frankie goes around telling everyone who will listen what she’s up to and who she thinks is to blame, this includes people already on the island whom she also suspects. Even the ending with its many twists couldn’t save this book for me.

#StillSeeYouEverywhere. #NetGalley

This was just sheer perfection in book form! I'm a massive fan of the author so went into expecting nothing but the best, and it still completely surpassed my expectations! The writing so well plotted out and it all just flows so effortlessly. The storyline wad original and the characters are just so human! They're very easy to envisage and understand their motivations and actions. There were some amazing twists and its all just so perfectly laid out to keep you needing to read just one more chapter and before you know it, it's the end!! Must read! Absolutely amazing. Can't remind highly enough

Lisa Gardner does it again. What a tremendous read.

Frankie Elkin, missing person's specialist is back and she is rapidly becoming one of my favourite fictional characters.

The scene is a small island off the coast of Hawaii, which rapidly turns into anything but a paradise island. Frankie is in search of a serial killer's sister who has been missing for some time. Serial killer, 'The Beautiful Butcher' is due to be executed within the next 3 weeks so time is of the essence.

Cleverly plotted and 'unputdownable'.

Highly recommended.

The 3rd book in the Frankie Elkin series is an absolute winner! So darker and very messed up, just the way that I like them.

Frankie goes to see a convicted serial killer on death row, a woman known as The Beautiful Butcher. She is being executed in 3 weeks and wants Frankie to find her little sister, who she believes is on a remote atoll of the coast of Hawaii, owned by a billionaire businessman. The island is full of people who have no fixed address and Frankie soon begins to feel at home. And then the storm hits…

This book was so addictive. Each chapter ended and you just needed to know what would happen next. Full of action and suspense, it is a dramatic story that will keep you guessing.

Thanks so much to Random House UK, Cornerstone, Century and NetGalley for my advanced copy to read. Published on March 14th.

Excellent story. Lots of action and twists and turns. Well worth reading.
Part of a series although I read this as a stand alone book. May have helped know the characters more if I had read previous books in the series.


Looking forward to more from Lisa Gardner
Many thanks to the author and publisher for the ARC and opportunity to enjoy this wonderful book

Fast-paced and unputdownable. Would definitely recommend.

Thank you to Netgalley, the author and the publisher for an advanced copy

I love this series. It has everything I love about crime fiction - great characters, greater mystery, brilliant pacing and tension that is so strong sometimes, I'm always surprised the whole book doesn't just snap. Although we've had to wait a little longer for this third novel due to Lisa Gardner taking a well earned sabbatical, it has been so worth it. I raced through Still See You Everywhere, a locked room mystery with a difference that sees our favourite amateur people finder, Frankie, pushed to the absolute limit.

I love Frankie as a character. She is no-one particularly special. No mega athlete with super human strength, and no genius level I.Q. that would see her out smart Sherlock Holmes. She is an everyday kind of woman, someone who has experienced real loss, battled unrelenting addiction and who has survived. She also has a innate talent for finding missing people, making a connection with the people involved in a case in a way that the police don't. She can track and investigate with the best of them,but has a down to earth kind of street smart attitude that makes connecting to those around her seem really natural. It's hard not to like her, even though this time around she manages to truly test the patience of some of the people she has been engaged to investigate. But there is nothing about her which seems forced or improbable, in spite the fact that as a modern day, and human, equivalent of the littlest hobo, she is of no fixed abode. A nomad whose connection to Nowhere is the very reason she is the perfect person to take this particular case.

This is a very different kind of case to the ones we have seen Frankie handle before. For a start, the location of her investigation is not her natural habitat. Much happier in a city, like Boston, or the country, as in her last case (although it's probably a stretch to say that that particular adventure made her happy), she certainly does not fit the remote Hawaiian Island destination that is to be her new, temporary, home. She is completely out of her comfort zone, something that creates more than the odd opportunity to smile in what is otherwise a dark and foreboding kind of read. Add in various critters of varying skin-crawling nature - wolf spiders, geckos and crabs of varying size and shape - and some truly colourful characters in her new resort mates, and the scene is set for a story that will amuse and unnerve in equal measure. I was both inspired, and scared, by the idea of visiting Hawaii in the not to distant future, the author does such a great job of setting the scene. I just pray I never meet a coconut crab. I made the mistake of looking them up on the internet and yikes. Not much keeps me awake at night but they just might.

There is a real sense of jeopardy and foreboding that runs from the very start of this book. Whilst the flow of the investigation is very familiar - Frankie hired to find a missing person, high risk activity of differing threat levels to follow - the reason for her engagement, and the person behind it, is not typical of her cases. Her client this time around is a woman on death row, soon to be executed for serial murder. The so-called 'Beautiful Butcher', Kaylee Pierson, hires Frankie to find her younger sister, Lani, who she believes to be living as the 'ward' of a tech billionaire and who also happens to be Kaylee's ex. There is a kind of inherent seediness that feed into the story, adding edginess to an already atmospheric and, at times, intense case.

Frankie is to go undercover at Sanders MacManus's remote resort, a Hawaiian atoll out in the Pacific that can only be reached by plane or a week long boat journey and where communications are ropey at best, non-existent in most cases, including when there is a major storm. You remember when I said locked room with a difference? Well this is it. Whilst the missing person case is quickly proven to be less of a mystery, there is an added element of surprise to this book, something that places all of the characters in danger and where having no access to mainland resources is far from ideal. Add in a whole heap of misdirection and suspicion and the scene is set for a humdinger of a showdown. it may have a different feel to the first two books in the series, but there is an edginess that really rivals the one by one take down that happened in One Step Too Far and which is still giving Frankie understandable nightmares. And I loved it. Loved the uncertainty. Loved the sparring and clear chemistry between Frankie and resort Manager, Vaughan, and loved the laughter that came from Frankie's kitchen colleagues, Trudy and Ann. It all just worked.

The ending was perhaps a little more abrupt than I expected, but events leading up to it really made up for that, keeping the pace, and the pulse, pounding, and I never knew quite what to expect. I'm not quite sure what it all means for Frankie, or us as readers, but I'm hoping there is more to come. It was exactly the book I needed in a week where I wasn't feeling my best and it's definitely recommended.

This is the third book in the Frankie Elkin series and it was terrific read it had me gripped from the first few pages and oh my the pace never let up until the extremely satisfying conclusion. Frankie is a marvellous character she is such a flawed person with many problems but also a character that you sure can’t fail to love and she is one of my favourite developing characters of all time and I hope this series will continue with lots more books to come.The plot was fabulously clever and kept me guessing, the location was brilliant and the feeling of isolation well described and the rest of the characters believable and well crafted as you would expect from the super Lisa Gardner.
There was only one thing I didn’t like about this book and that was the those damn crabs !! I hate crabs they give me the creeps and OMG there were a lot of them in the story and they weren’t small crabs like we have here in the UK these were ginormous Coconut crabs that I did t even know existed!!
All joking apart I loved everything about the read I can’t fault it and would highly recommend both this book and series it’s one not to be missed and many many thanks to Lisa for a 5 star read.
My thanks also to NetGalley and Random House UK, Cornerstone, Century for giving me the opportunity to read the ARC in exchange for my honest opinion.

Another gripping thriller from Lisa Gardner. Frankie is contacted by a serial killer on death row who wants to find her sister before she is executed but is there more to this than there first seems to be. A real page turner, would definitely recommend.

Thanks to Netgalley and the publishers for an advanced digital copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.