The Survivors Club: A Thriller

By: Lisa Gardner

Narrated by: Anna Fields

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.©2002 Lisa Baumgartner; (P)2002 Books on Tape, Inc.

Critic reviews

Praise for the novels of Lisa Gardner

The Survivors Club
"Lisa Gardner's THE SURVIVORS CLUB is a high-octane, nerve-jangling tale of suspense.”
-- Harlan Coben, bestselling author of Tell No One and Gone for Good

"The Survivors Club has it all -- provocative plotting, an astute eye for detail, engaging characters, and a razor-sharp emotional edge."
-–Stephen White, bestselling author of Warning Signs

The Next Accident
“A suspense-laden, twist-filled tale that easily equals the best of Sue Grafton and Kathy Reichs.”
-The Providence Sunday Journal

The Third Victim
“A suspenseful, curl-up winter read, this thriller
teems with crisp, realistic dialogue and engaging characters.”
-Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Other Daughter
“Sheer terror...a great read.”
-Iris Johansen

The Perfect Husband
“A streamlined, bang-up addition to the oeuvre of Tami Hoag, Karen Robards, Elizabeth Powell and, these days, even Nora Roberts.”
-Publishers Weekly

Another Awesome Edge-of-the-Seat Book from Gardner

Just finished listening to both unabridged books available by Lisa Gardner, wish you had more!! Can't believe I haven't discovered her before now. She writes interesting characters and stories and great puzzles.

Read and Listen to more from this author

Great book. The reader did the characters very well and enhanced an already great story. Interesting twists and turns to the story and you get drawn in to the story immediately. I will definitely try other books by her.

Kinda slow and drawn out

It was a good book with twists and turns, it just took a long time to get there

Intense; stopped then tried again

I started reading this knowing Lisa Gardner is great, although thought this was earlier than the Flora Dane books I absolutely love. Meg was a rape victim although she couldn't remember. It was too intense. I put the book aside.
When I got back to it, I met the other members of the survivor's club, and the action started quickly and never slowed.
Excellent.

best narrator!!!

loved the book, story, but the narrator was the best. hope to run across her again.