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Mystery · 2019 · PG-13

Never Tell

by Lisa Gardner

A woman shoots her husband — but the ballistics say she didn't

For14+GenreMysteryLength350 pagesRead time~9 hours

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Violence

Some

Murder; moderate thriller violence; past violent crimes investigated

Language

Some

Moderate profanity

Sexual Content

Barely any

No significant sexual content

Substance Use

Barely any

No significant substance use

Emotional Intensity

A lot

High psychological complexity; unreliable narrators and buried trauma; family secrets and betrayal

What this book is about

When Evie Carter shoots her husband with a gun that forensic evidence says wasn't fired, Boston detective D.D. Warren is pulled into a case involving buried family secrets, past murders, and a web of lies stretching back decades. The tenth D.D. Warren novel is a tightly plotted mystery that questions what we think we know about truth.

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Murder mystery

Family trauma

Psychological complexity

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