The Survivors Club

by Lisa Gardner

What the blurb on the back says...

"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 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 the unthinkalbe? Has someone in the Survivors Club become a killer?

Then another woman is brutally attacked...

Suddenly, with the city on the edge of panic, gripped in a media and political firestorm of controversy, cover-up and conspiracy, the hunt is on for a ruthless killer. Someone is out there. Some who wants to finish what was started. Someone who wants to make sure that no one survives the Survivors Club...

Explosively plotted, 'The Survivors Club' sizzles with unnerving suspense from its first paragraph. It is a compulsive new thriller of satisfying depth and complexity from 'New York Times' bestselling author, Lisa Gardner."

What I thought of it...

This book was definitely one of my most un-put-down-ables. I was gripped from the first few pages and didn't stop reading until I had finished it. It's a real 'whodunnit'. But it also upset me because it dealt with rape and the book conveyed to me how horrifying rape and life after rape can be.