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    The Survivors Club

    Written by Lisa Gardner

    Narrated by Becky Ann Baker

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    One of today's most electrifying suspense novelists, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Gardner returns with a shattering thriller that dares to play on our deepest vulnerabilities. In this masterful new novel, the killer may very well be the one you sympathize with the most....

    THE FIRST RULE IS NEVER BLAME THE VICTIM.

    They survived what no woman should ever have to endure. Now these three women have the means, the opportunity, and the perfect motive. Are they trying to get away with murder--or is someone trying to make sure that this time they don't get away at all? The Survivors Club. . .that's what Jillian Hayes, Carol Rosen, and Meg Pesaturo call it. They won't consider themselves victims. They are survivors. They faced the blazing headlines and helped lead the investigation that caught the man who changed their lives forever.

    And now that Eddie Como, the College Hill rapist, has been murdered, shot down outside a packed courthouse moments before his trial was about to begin, all three women are openly ecstatic that he's dead. They are also the prime suspects in his murder. Detective Sergeant Roan Griffin knows all too well what can drive even the best people to cross the line. But he has never seen a case quite like this one. No one doubts that the murder of Eddie Como was a professional job, especially when the gunman is killed only blocks away from the shooting.

    But questions taunt Griffin: Who ordered the deaths of Eddie Como and his killer? Could three ordinary women have been driven to do he unthinkable? Had someone in the Survivors Club become a killer? Griffin seeks the truth--and finds himself confronted with the leader of the Survivors Club. Jillian Hayes is beautiful, successful, cool as ice, and she harbors a pain that mirrors Griffin's own. Did the horror of what happened to her push her over the thin and desperate line that separates survival and revenge? And if it did, could he blame her--or anyone in the Survivors Club? Then another woman is brutally attacked.

    Suddenly, with the city on the ragged edge of panic, gripped in a media and political firestorm of controversy, cover-up, and conspiracy, the hunt is on for a ruthless and cunning killer. For Griffin, this may well be the case that shatters his career. For Jillian, the harrowing nightmare is beginning all over again. Someone is out there. Someone who wants to finish what was started. Someone who wants to make sure that no one survives the Survivors Club.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 21, 2002
    ISBN9780553714258
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    The Survivors Club
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    Lisa Gardner

    Lisa Gardner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty suspense novels, including The Neighbor, which won Thriller of the Year from the International Thriller Writers. An avid hiker, traveler and cribbage player, she lives in the mountains of New Hampshire with her family.

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    • 4/5
      I have not read books of many female authors thinking they are weak. Lisa Gardner shattered that perception.The characters in this book have body and are three dimensional.She reveals the realities of the rigors of rape. She enters the minds of both the male and female characters and returns, bloodied with the raw ruin rape leaves. Like a pulsing heart in her hands.This is a recommended read.
    • 4/5
      It's about three women their lives are torn up side down by a serieal rapist. The women started the survivor club to get over there violent brutality. They ended up to be prime suspect in the murdered case of there rapist because they wish he was dead. But there was a twist the candy man the state police arested for a childed rapist and killer. He ended up being part of the callege hill rapist case. It was a spine thriling story
    • 4/5
      "The Survivors Club" consists of Jillian Hayes, Meg Pesaturo, Carol Rosen--a "business woman, a college coed and an upper-crust wife." They all survived the College Hill rapist and banned together to put pressure on the police that led to the arrest of Eddie Como. On the day his trial was to begin, a sniper guns him down in front of the courthouse. What happens right afterwards to the assassin in the first pages is the first twist of the book, and hooked me in. The primary investigator is Roan Griffin of the Rhode Island State police. He too in his way is a survivor. The day of the killing is his first day back after he snapped under the pressure of the death of his wife and the investigation of a child killer.There were several things about this book I liked, despite its flaws. First, I liked how the flashbacks to the attacks on the woman manages to describe rape in a way that while somewhat graphic, isn't titillating or eroticized (although I could have done without the cheesy italics). I liked the way the book emphasized instead the terror and physical brutality of the attacks, and the continuing trauma the women experience. In other words, this is poles away from say James Patterson's Kiss the Girls in the way it handles the subject. And I did like how it depicted the close bond between the women, and how if helps them find a way to survive, and find a way they can someday thrive. The last one hundred pages is as suspenseful and nail-biting as anyone could ask.Without doubt this is the quintessential trashy thriller. I mean, man, Meg has total amnesia? Really? And we get that eye-rolling super-villain with the cunning high-concept plan, and the way Griffin is described is at times a bit too romance novel to my taste. Also, dude, despite what the book claims, identical twins do have identical DNA. They are, essentially, clones. But this was decently written even if by no means distinguished in style, with likable characters, and kept me turning the pages, interested to the end. Not many popular thrillers can manage even that. So, good airplane reading material can be had here.
    • 4/5
      This is a fast-paced and tense story about 3 women who all survived being attacked by the same serial rapist. Their persistence and public presence led police to a suspect who was arrested and charged with the crimes. On the day his trial was to begin, he was assassinated while being transferred from the prison van into the courthouse. That night, another woman was raped and murdered, with evidence at the scene pointing to the dead man.Since the shooting occured at the courthouse, the state police automatically had jusisdiction, and the case was assigned to an investigator on his first day back on the job from an 18-month absence. We gradually understand the whole reason for the extended leave, but we know in the beginning that it was related to his wife's death and a particularly nasty case involving a serial killer. As the state investigator teams up with the city police detective in charge of the rape cases, and working together with the surviving women, the relationship between the murder of the rape suspect, and the ongoing rape case become increasingly clear.I don't think I've ever read anything by Gardner before, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book and will be looking for more by her. The story seems well-researched and seems tightly written. It was a great beach read
    • 3/5
      I'm addicted to buying trashy novels in airports. There wasn't much to choose from in the Maui airport, so I picked an author that I hadn't read before. Certainly her writing style is quick and clever. Her characters are individual and understandable. But for heavens sake, can't we have one thriller WITHOUT a smart, manipulative psychotic criminal who organizes crimes in order to "get back at" the police. If they were so smart, why didn't they disappear before they got caught?This is the story of three women with secrets who survive vicious assaults and rapes. They band together and lead the police to a subject who is to go on trial today. But the suspect is killed by a professional assassin who is then killed by a car bomb. Did one of these women hire a professional killer to spare themselves a trial? No. All of these complex crimes are actually the plan of a master criminal who is targeting the detective who arrested him.Well written trash is still trash. This story is unnecessarily complex and centers on an unbelievable villain. The detective is too smart and too good. The victims too easily satisfied. The good and the evil too easily separated. If I want to read about psychotic killers, next time I will find another author with characters painted in shades of gray.
    • 5/5
      WOW! This is my first novel I've read of hers. I will certainly be starting a collection. I had trouble putting it down and she pulled me into madness! Go to her website! I love 'Kill a Relative/Maim a Friend'
    • 5/5
      I have never read a Lisa Gardner book before and the Survivor's Club was on my list as a highly recommended read. I normally don't listen to crime dramas; however, I really enjoyed the suspense in this fast-paced novel. The description of the rapes really brings home the fact of what an act of violence rape is (especially in this story) -- the author handled the subject matter with incredible understanding and empathy, yet getting her point across about the true nature of that hideous crime. The characters are well developed and it kept me listening raptly to all of the twists and turns that one loves in a good crime mystery. I plan on reading her other books now.
    • 3/5
      Jillian Hayes, Carol Rosen and Meg Pesaturo belong to "The Survivors Club," a group of three women living in Providence, Rhode Island, who meet regularly after having been victimized by the same rapist. Eddie Como, known as the College Hill Rapist, is about to face trial. He has claimed innocence from day one but nobody seems to be expecting anything other than a guilty verdict since his DNA was found at the scenes of the attacks. When Como is killed on his way to the courthouse by an unknown assassin, it's hard to see too many people being upset. When the assassin is killed minutes later it leaves two murders that need to be investigated.

      The author introduces us to Detective Sergeant Roan Griffin, a state police officer back at work a year after dealing with the death of his wife and the loss of control at a crime scene. He doesn't know the three members of the Survivor's Club but considers them prime suspects in the murder of Eddie and the assassin.

      Shortly after Eddie is killed, another rape occurs and the doctors recover Eddie's DNA from victim. Jillian teams up with Roan to investigate how this could happen. Eddie is dead so how can he have raped and killed another woman? How can a dead man, who had been assassinated earlier, leave DNA at a crime scene?

      This is not a new Lisa Gardner book. Somehow I managed to miss this one a few years ago and am glad I was able to pick it up now. I thought it was a very suspenseful story and the plot races along incorporating many unexpected twists. It's an outstanding crime thriller and if you are a fan of Lisa Gardner you will really enjoy this one.

    • 5/5
      This is one of Lisa Gardner's "Stand-Alone" novels (I've read all the ones in the 2 big series she's written...*sob* ... I'll miss the characters!). It's the first stand-alone of hers I've read and I wasn't sure at first whether I'd like it, because I'd got so attached to the characters in the 2 series I'd read and had become accustomed to getting to know characters over a series of books.

      Perhaps I therefore found this book slighly slower to get into, but once I got into it, I couldn't put it down! It has a great storyline that takes you along all the way to the end with lots of suspense in all the right places.

      Another Lisa Gardner masterpiece!