Crash & Burn: by Lisa Gardner | Summary & Analysis

By IRB Media

This companion to Crash & Burn includes:

• Summary of the book

• Character Analysis

• A Discussion on Themes

• and much more!

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Aug 1, 2015
• ISBN: 9781943427710

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Crash & Burn

by

Lisa Gardner

Summary & Analysis

Table of Contents

| Summary |      3

Main Characters      11

| Analysis |      13

Character Analysis      13

Character Relationships      17

Themes      20

Author’s Style      28

| Summary |

Crash & Burn by Lisa Gardner is a psychological thriller that tells the story of Nicky Frank, a woman who cannot escape the memories that reside inside her head. After suffering two previous concussions, Nicky has problems with night terrors, migraine headaches, and haunting memories from the past. These become worse when she suffers a third brain injury in a car accident.

Nicky Frank’s car crashes into a ravine in rural New Hampshire. She is injured, but survives. She forces herself to climb out of the vehicle and to the top of the ravine to get help. When help comes, she asks them to find a little girl named Vero.

Sergeant Wyatt Foster, a police investigator, and Kevin Santos, one of his detectives, are called in to try and find the missing girl. However, no little girl is found.

Nicky’s husband, Thomas Frank, visits her in the hospital. At first, she does not know who he is. She feels conflicting emotions about him. Nicky has conversations with Vero in her head.

Wyatt and Kevin arrive. Nicky has been given a sedative, so she is sleeping and unable to talk. Thomas tells the investigators that he works from home designing sets for movies. Nicky works with him, painting the props he creates. He tells them that this is the third time Nicky has suffered a