Touch and Go - Lisa Gardner

pages: 423  publisheed: 2013

 The CEO of a big construction company has been kidnapped, along with his wive and daughter. No ransom notice is sent through in the first 24 hours, leading the inspectors to believe that this crime is of a more personal nature. But who would go to such lengths to kidnap three people and keep them alive, and why?

This is the second novel in the "Tessa Leoni" series. This is the type of book that we call "roman de gare" (train station novel) in French. Not great litterature, but it'll do to pass the time. Tessa went through a traumatic event in the first novel, and that's basically the "backgound" story that gives her character so much "compassion" and "understanding" of what the victims in her books are going through. A bit of a romantic touch in there as well, with Tessa finding a possible love interest.