I Can't Wait For... PARANOID

Can't-Wait Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by Wishful Endings, to spotlight and discuss the books we're excited about that we have yet to read. Generally they're books that have yet to be released.

Lisa Jackson is one of my favorite authors and I'm looking forward to this next release...

Paranoid 

Standalone
By Lisa Jackson
Romantic Suspense, Thriller
eBook, Hardcover, Paperback Audiobook, 480 Pages
June 25, 2019 by Kensington


Blurb

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson comes a new novel of nerve-jangling suspense as a woman haunted by guilt realizes that nothing can be trusted—not even her own memory …

There are people in Edgewater, Oregon, who think that twenty years ago, Rachel Gaston got away with murder.

Rachel still has no idea how a foolish teenaged game turned deadly—or who replaced her soft pellet air gun with a real weapon. When a figure leapt out at her from the darkness, she fired without thinking. Too late, she recognized her half-brother, Luke, and saw blood blooming around his chest.

Despite counseling, Rachel’s horrifying dreams about that night continue. Her anxiety contributed to her divorce from Detective Cade Ryder, though he blames himself too. But as Rachel’s high school reunion nears, she feels her imagination playing tricks, convincing her that objects in her house have moved. That there’s a hint of unfamiliar cologne in the air. That someone is tailing her car. Watching her home.

She’s right to be scared. And as connections surface between a new string of murders and Luke’s death, Rachel realizes there’s no escaping the past, and the truth may be darker than her worst fears …

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What do you think? Will you be checking this one out?

(Audio)Book Review: See How She Dies by Lisa Jackson

See How She Dies by Lisa Jackson

Blurb:

London Danvers was kidnapped as a child from her wealthy family. Over the years, many women have claimed to be her, trying to lay claim to the long-lost heiress's inheritance. Among them is Adria Nash, who has arrived in Oregon, claiming to be London-but, unlike the others, she's different: she knows personal details only London could have known. And there is someone who does believe her-who is watching her every move, waiting to see how she runs, how she screams, and how she dies...

My Review:

Twenty-years-ago, at just shy of five-years-old London Danvers was abducted by her nanny from her wealthy family's hotel in Portland, Oregon and was never seen again. Why did the nanny take her? Where did she take her? What became of little London?

The disappearance tore the already rocky Danvers family apart. To Whitt Danvers, the patriarch of the family, London was his little princess and he went to his grave not knowing what happened to his beloved youngest child. Something broke inside Kat Danvers, London's mother and Whitt's second wife, after her only child was taken and she died, falling from the 19th floor of a hotel after taking a a dangerous cocktail of vodka and pills. Or did she? Second son, Zachary was beaten up on the night of London's disappearance and thought to be a suspect in the kidnapping. Was he involved? Could it have been one of the other Danvers children: Jason, Trisha, Nelson? The head of the rival Paladoria family? Or someone else connected to the Danvers family? Someone else you'd never suspect...

Now, in 1993 a woman by the name of Adria Nash arrives in Portland claiming to be the lost London. She isn't the first but she does bear an eerie resemblance to Kat. Could she be the lost heiress come back to claim her birthright? The Danvers family will do everything in their power to prove Adria is a fraud out for the family fortune, even as Zach and Adria grow close, an undeniable, potentially taboo attraction between the two.

But someone else is watching from the shadows, watching Adria as she searches for the truth. Someone that will do anything to keep the mystery of London's disappearance and Kat's death a secret. Can Adria find out who she is? Or will a killer end her life before she has a chance to find out the truth?

I really enjoyed this book. It kept me guessing and I genuinely didn't know who the killer or kidnapper was until the very end. Since I listened to the audiobook, I will say I enjoyed the narration very much. The narrator didn't put me to sleep and her voice didn't annoy me. 

A couple things I didn't like was the initial jumping back and forth between the 1970s and 1993 - I wish the author would have had part one as the events leading up to / the night of London's kidnapping, part two being the days/months/years after, and the rest of the book being the year 1993. I also didn't like the Trisha/Mario Paladoria part of the book. I got the forbidden-star-crossed-lovers-Romeo-and-Juliet type thing but Mario didn't seem sincerely interested in Trisha and Trisha was a total nutcase. Also, toward the end of the book when Anthony Paladoria announces to his son that the feud is over - that didn't make much sense to me. I mean I agreed with it but there was no reasoning behind it. Lastly, on an audiobook standpoint I wished the chapters could have been split up a little more. Nearly an hour on one chapter was a bit long in my opinion. You could have split it into two chapters, even if the chapter count doubled.

Initially I wondered why they didn't just do a familial DNA test to see if Adria was related to the Danvers family, although I questioned how advanced DNA was in 1993, but then at the end I understood why the author didn't plot it that way. 

Overall, I became hooked on this story and didn't want to stop listening. I couldn't wait to find out what was going on, if Adria was London, if she and Zach had a chance, who kidnapped London, and who the stalker/killer was and the result was a satisfying end. I'd definitely read/listen to this book again!

My Rating:

🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

5 of 5 Stars!

#BookMail Thursday #27

This week the book mail I'm sharing with you really isn't my own (although I plan to read this book myself!). You see, my grandmother has trouble seeing small print in books due to her neuropathy and some other health issues so she discovered Doubleday Home Library where she can get Large Print copies of books. She ordered a Large Print edition of Come Sundown by Nora Roberts but she also ordered...

You Will Pay by Lisa Jackson

About "You Will Pay":

In a fast-paced, brilliantly twisted novel of suspense from #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson, the deadly secrets of a long-ago summer stir to life once more.

It starts as a prank—a way to blow off steam after a long summer at Camp Horseshoe. Among the teen counselors, tensions and hormones are running high. No wonder the others agree when Jo-Beth Chancellor suggests they scare Monica O’Neal a little . . . or a lot. Monica has it coming, and no one will really get hurt. What could go wrong?

Everything.

Twenty years later, Lucas Dalton, a senior detective with the sheriff’s department, is investigating the discovery of human remains in a cavern at what used to be Camp Horseshoe. Lucas knows the spot well. His father, a preacher, ran the camp, and Lucas worked there that infamous summer when two girls went missing. No one knows what happened to either of them, though with a dangerous convict on the loose, gossip was rife that they may have been kidnapped, or worse.

For Lucas, the case is personal—perhaps too much so. But it’s time to uncover the whole truth at last. That’s why seven former female counselors are coming back to the small Oregon town—among them, Bernadette Alsace, the woman Lucas has never forgotten. Each one knows something about that terrible night. Each promised not to tell. And as they reunite, a new horror unfolds. First come texts containing a personal memento and a simple, terrifying message: YOU WILL PAY. Then, the murders begin.

It started years ago. But it will end here—as a web of lust, greed, and betrayal is untangled to reveal a killer waiting to enact the perfect revenge.

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Prime Day is Coming Up!

Since Amazon Prime Day is on Tuesday (July 11) I'm thinking of breaking my book ban and seeing if I can score some deals on books I've had on my Amazon Wishlist for a while. Do you plan on shopping Amazon for Prime Day?