Books by Lisa Jackson and Complete Book Reviews
Lisa Jackson. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (480p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0278-9
In bestseller Jackson's exciting third thriller to feature Det. Selena Alvarez and Det. Regan Pescoli (after Chosen to Die), the two Grizzly Falls, Mont., cops look into the suspicious fall of schoolteacher Jocelyn Wallis onto a rocky ledge. Jocelyn,
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Lisa Jackson, Kensington, $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2565-8
Someone is strangling novice nuns in Jackson's terrifying if overwrought seventh Bentz and Montoya novel (after Malice). When NOPD homicide detectives Reuben Montoya and Rick Bentz arrive at the first crime scene, the chapel of St. Marguerite's...
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Lisa Jackson, Author Zebra Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8217-4455-0
The mystery surrounding a kidnapping adds a jolt to this otherwise standard romance. Four-year-old London disappears after a party one night in 1974. London is the favorite daughter of Portland lumber scion Witt Danvers, and the only one of his five
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Lisa Jackson, Author Zebra $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8217-5160-2
Provocative prose, an irresistible plot and finely crafted characters make up Jackson's latest contemporary sizzler. The story begins in 1980 when Kate Summers is presented with an offer she can't refuse--a newborn baby. For Kate, it's a second...
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Zebra $6.99 (464p) ISBN 978-0-8217-6934-8
Another serial killer is wreaking havoc in New Orleans, and it's up to detectives Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya, the protagonists from Jackson's previous thriller, Hot Blooded, to reign him in. This time around, the detectives are joined by...
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Kensington $25 (424p) ISBN 978-0-7582-2564-1
The murder of Julia “Jules” Farentino's father creates a bond with her younger half-sister, Shaylee Stillman in this juicy creep-a-thon from bestseller Jackson (Chosen to Die
). That bond is tested years later when 17-year-old...
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Zebra $7.99 (470p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0277-2
In this thin and clumsy thriller, a serial killer captures Det. Regan Pescoli, the smart, strong-willed star of 2008's Left to Die
. The “Star-Crossed Killer,” plague of Montana's Bitterroot Mountains, kidnaps injured women,...
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Kensington $24 (424p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1184-2
A vengeful ex-wife appears to have returned from the dead to stalk her ex-husband in this gripping thriller from bestseller Jackson (Absolute Fear
). Former LAPD detective Rick Bentz has rebuilt his life with a happy marriage and new career with the
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Kensington $7.99 (505p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0276-5
Prolific bestseller Jackson (Deep Freeze
) introduces an intriguing pair of female detectives in this intense series opener. Deep in the winter wilderness of Montana, a serial killer sets up car accidents for women driving down secluded roads,...
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Kensington $22 (403p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1183-5
Kristi Bentz, having recovered from her last encounter with a sadistic monster in bestseller Jackson's Absolute Evil
, faces an equally terrifying ordeal in this frantic paranormal thriller. Four female students associated with a vampire cult...
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Signet $7.99 (406p) ISBN 978-0-451-22198-8
The final installment in Jackson's medieval trilogy (after Impostress
and Temptress
) finds a witch and a warrior drawn together for the battle of their lives. In 13th-century northern Wales, a man named Gavyn is on the run from his own father
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Kensington $19.95 (404p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1182-8
In bestseller Jackson's spine-tingling romantic thriller, the turbo-charged follow-up to Shiver
(2006), photographer Abby Chastain, who played a major role in Shiver
, finds she may have a half-sister in Eve Renner, the adopted daughter of Dr....
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Kensington $19.95 (421p) ISBN 978-0-7582-1393-8
Set in pre-Katrina New Orleans, the new romantic thriller by bestseller Jackson, her first to be published in hardcover, fits all the usual pieces into all the usual holes. A psycho sexual serial killer stalks victims connected to an insane asylum,...
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Zebra $7.99 (512p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7577-6
Although branded a "romantic suspense" novelist, Jackson keeps the sex to a minimum—for the better—in his latest. Featuring two secondary characters from 2005's Deep Freeze
(Travis Settler and his teenage daughter, Dani),...
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Zebra $7.99 (480p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7296-6
When beautiful Jenna Hughes moves with her two children to a small Oregon town in bestseller Jackson's well-crafted romantic thriller, the retired movie star expects to start a quiet new life, but a psychotic fan's deadly obsession soon...
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Zebra $6.99 (448p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7295-9
Slowly waking from a drugged sleep, a woman realizes she's not in her own bed but in a closed coffin, lying on top of a cold, reeking dead body. Thuds resonate on the lid—dirt and stones being shoveled on top—bringing the sure...
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Lisa Jackson, Author . Zebra $6.99 (447p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7603-2
In a letter to readers, Jackson (Cold Blooded, etc.) declares this a "spanking brand new edition" of her 1999 romantic suspense novel, complete with new twists and a new ending. As such, it should generate plenty of excitement among her fans,
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Lisa Jackson, Author, Nancy Bush, Author . Zebra $7.99 (474p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0338-0
Bestselling suspense author Jackson (Left to Die
) pairs with mystery author Bush (Ultra Violet
) to pen a chilling tale. Jessie Brentwood was a student at St. Elizabeth's School in Oregon when she vanished 20 years ago. Still haunted by her...
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Lisa Jackson, Author, Beverly Barton, Author, Wendy Corsi Staub, Author . Zebra $7.99 (479p) ISBN 978-0-8217-7576-9
Despite individual success in the field of suspense, the first collaboration of Jackson (Fatal Burn
), Staub (The Final Victim
) and Barton (Dangerous Deception
) is likely to disappoint their fans. The plot line will ring familiar to slasher movie...
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Lisa Jackson, Author, Joyce Bean, Read by Brilliance Corporation $38.95 (0p) ISBN 978-1-4233-1525-4
Reader Joyce Bean, who has also directed many audiobooks, does her best to add some subtlety and strength to Jackson's latest, but it's basically an uphill effort. The author's plotting and prose style remain workmanlike, and no amount of vocal...
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Lisa Jackson. Severn, $28.95 (256p) ISBN 978-0727883438
Jackson celebrates her 30th year of publishing bestselling romance and romantic suspense novels with the reissue of her 1985 tale of family versus family in the Oregon logging community. Ashley Stephens and aspiring politician Trevor Daniels,...
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Lisa Jackson. Kensington, $25 (432p) ISBN 978-0-7582-5859-5
A haunted house provides the stage for this exciting novel of romantic suspense from bestseller Jackson (You Don't Want to Know). Following her divorce, Sarah McAdams decides to makes a fresh start by moving back to her abandoned childhood home, a...
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Lisa Jackson. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (480p) ISBN 978-1-4201-1852-0
Bestseller Jackson’s sixth mystery featuring Grizzly Falls, Mo., detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli of the Pinewood County Sheriff’s Dept. (after 2013’s Ready to Die) lumbers through a tiresome setup before reaching a briefly exciting...
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Lisa Jackson. Kensington, $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7582-5857-1
This chilling stand-alone suspense thriller from bestseller Jackson (Without Mercy) brings every parent’s biggest fear to life—the disappearance of one’s child. Nightmare-plagued Ava Garrison still can’t remember the details of the night her two-year
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Lisa Jackson. Kensington, $25 (416p) ISBN 978-0-7582-5858-8
A case that true crime author Nikki Gillette is considering for her next book strikes too close to home in bestseller Jackson’s loosely constructed third romantic suspense novel set in Savannah, Ga. (after 2004’s The Morning After). Notorious...
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Lisa Jackson, read by Kate Rudd. Brilliance Audio, unabridged, seven CDs, 8.5 hrs., $14.99 ISBN 978-1-4558-6532-1
When Chandra Hill discovers a squalling newborn abandoned in her barn, she’s thrown into a whirlwind of events that revolve around the attractive physician who examines baby John Doe in the hospital and the sudden media scrutiny that sheds light on...
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Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4201-1848-3
Jackson and Bush, who are sisters as well as co-authors, follow Wicked Game and Wicked Lies with this superb supernatural thriller set on the Oregon coast. Det. Savannah Dunbar of the Tillamook County Sheriff’s Department is nearing the end of her...
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Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush. Kensington/Zebra, $7.99 mass market (384p) ISBN 978-1-4201-0339-7
Sisters Jackson and Bush craftily combine suspense with the paranormal in this rich sequel to 2009's bestselling Wicked Game. Laura Adderley, a nurse at a coastal Oregon hospital and a member of the psychic sisterhood of the Colony, is uneasily...
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Lisa Jackson, Cathy Lamb, Holly Chamberlin, and Rosalind Noonan. Kensington, $15 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-7582-6563-0
In this satisfying and often heartwrenching anthology that is not your typical cheery beach read, four authors explore the topic of lost love and the magical qualities of unexpected second chances. In Lamb’s “June’s Lace,” a lawyer turned wedding...
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Lisa Jackson. Kensington, $26 (400p) ISBN 978-1-61773-465-6
Ten years after a serial killer tormented retired movie star Jenna Hughes and her two daughters, Cassie and Allie Kramer, in bestseller Jackson’s Deep Freeze (2005), mother and now-grown daughters must contend with further angst and violence in this
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Lisa Jackson. Kensington, $27 (448p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2222-5
A complex web of romantic entanglements forms the core of Jackson’s exhilarating third Cahills romantic suspense novel (after Almost Dead). Megan Travers has a vicious fight with her boyfriend, serial dater James Cahill, after which Megan goes...
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Lisa Jackson. Kensington, $27 (480p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2246-1
Bestseller Jackson (Liar, Liar) gradually builds up the layers of this slow-moving, tangled psychological thriller, leading to a stunning finale. As a teen, Rachel Gaston accidentally kills her brother, Luke Hollander, during a fake shoot-out with...
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Lisa Jackson. Zebra, $9.99 mass market (484p) ISBN 978-1-4201-3607-4
Bestseller Jackson’s overly busy seventh Selena Alvarez/Regan Pescoli novel (after 2014’s Deserves to Die) finds the Grizzly Falls, Mont., detectives dealing with bigfoot sightings, teenagers with too many secrets, and a murder. Around midnight one...
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Lisa Jackson. Kensington, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-6177-3466-3
At the start of this overly long thriller from bestseller Jackson (After She’s Gone), four people—two female counselors, a part-time worker, and an escaped convict who ventured into the area—disappear from Camp Horseshoe, a religious camp in Averill,
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Lisa Jackson. Kensington, $26 (416p) ISBN 978-1-61773-467-0
Twenty years after celebrity impersonator Didi Storm disappeared in Las Vegas with her young twins, abandoning her teen daughter Remmi, a woman dressed to look like her jumps to her death from a San Francisco building in this twisty, suspenseful...
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Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush. Zebra, $7.99 mass market (480p) ISBN 978-1-4201-3613-5
A wedding gone bloodily wrong kicks off this overstuffed romantic thriller from Jackson and Bush (Wicked Ways). Liam Bastian’s mother insists upon an elaborate public ceremony to consecrate Liam’s bond with Rory Abernathy, despite their legal...
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Edited by Lee Child. Simon & Schuster, $27 (464p) ISBN 978-1-5011-4159-1
Each of the 11 collaborative tales in this stellar sequel to the International Thriller Writers’ anthology FaceOff (2014) pairs a top-rank female thriller writer with a male counterpart. Sandra Brown’s Lee Coburn and C.J. Box’s Joe Pickett send...
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Lisa Jackson. Kensington, $27 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4967-2224-9
When the skeletal remains of two bodies and what appears to be an empty grave are found in a secret crypt in the cellar of a decaying Savannah, Ga., mansion in bestseller Jackson’s workmanlike fourth Pierce Reed/Nikki Gillette novel (after 2013’s...
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Lisa Jackson and Nancy Bush. Kensington, $28 (384p) ISBN 978-1-4967-3401-3
In bestsellers Jackson and Bush’s convoluted fifth and final paranormal romantic thriller in their Colony series (after 2014’s Wicked Ways), an unidentified body washes up on a beach across from Oregon’s Echo Island, the home of the mysterious women
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Lisa Jackson, Alexandra Ivy, and Lisa Childs. Zebra, $9.99 mass market (416p) ISBN 978-1-4201-5363-7
These three flawed romantic suspense novellas are linked by a fun but underutilized central conceit: that all three heroines are alumnae of the same exclusive Austrian boarding school. In Jackson’s “Retribution,” young Lucy Champagne witnesses an...
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