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Summary: Women are dying...
Review: ...And reporter, Nikki Gillette, is hard after the story. She's dubbed the killer The Grave Robber. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to his victims, but Nikki and local cop, Pierce Reed, are determined to find the answers. The murderer is leaving both of them messages. They become unlikely allies...the cop and the reporter. Maybe more than allies? Their feeling grow...but to what end? You see, The Grave Robber isn't done yet. Lisa Jackson crafts a wonderful story with layer upon layer of a who-dunit that is sure to please!
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Summary: Women are dying...
Review: ...And reporter, Nikki Gillette, is hard after the story. She's dubbed the killer The Grave Robber. There doesn't seem to be any pattern to his victims, but Nikki and local cop, Pierce Reed, are determined to find the answers. The murderer is leaving both of them messages. They become unlikely allies...the cop and the reporter. Maybe more than allies? Their feeling grow...but to what end? You see, The Grave Robber isn't done yet. Lisa Jackson crafts a wonderful story with layer upon layer of a who-dunit that is sure to please!
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Summary: Suspenseful
Review: After reading Hot Blooded, I was disappointed. It was the first Lisa Jackson book I'd read. Then my aunt recommended Whispers by this author and I liked it very much, so I decided to give this book a try. And I truly enjoyed it.
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Summary: Keeps you on the edge of your seat...
Review: From the first page, readers will find themselves chilled to the bone as they find themselves trapped in a coffin ontop of a long dead body, fighting to claw out before two corpses lie inside. The scene shifts rapidly to the two detectives who will be in charge of the case, Morrisette and Pierce Reed. Reed soon finds he has a connection to the aforementioned coffin. The more recent body belongs to his former lover, and though the killer might not have known it, there were not two but three victims inside. An unborn child was killed as well. As horrible as all this is, it becomes more so as the Grave Robber Killer adds more victims to his list. With each kill, Pierce and a young female reporter recieve notes taunting them with encrypted clues. The truth lies in long buried memories hidden in a twisted mind. Reed must outguess a diabolically tortured killer, or Nicki will be the coup de eta. **** Lisa Jackson can keep you up all night reading, afraid to sleep and unwilling to let the story go until it ends. Yet, despite the thrilling suspense, she is not neglectful of the romantic element and has well thought out, complex characters that will come to life as you turn the pages. ****
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I am new to Lisa Jackson, and must say that after reading this book, I will continue to be a fan and look forward to reading much more by this talented author.
The story line was excellent and the characters carried with them enough baggage to help you understand their actions. The suspense was awesome and kept me guessing until the very end.
I tried so hard to stay awake last night to finish it as the climax was awesome, but alas the work week caught up to me and I couldn't do it. However, along with my cup of coffee this morning I grabbed this book and finishing it was the first thing I did today.
Excellent read, highly recommended.
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Summary: Chilling, Suspenseful and Brilliant!
Review: Imagine waking in a dark, small space, a peculiar smell in what little air there is to breathe. Imagine something lumpy and soft pressing against the back of your naked body. Imagine clods of dirt raining down on your eternal resting place as cruel laughter floats in the air. Imagine being buried alive. Nikki Gillette is looking for her breakout story--a story that will propel her out of the small time newspaper she's writing for now. When she gets wind of a serial killer who buries his victims alive, she goes after it like a buzzard on road-kill. Self-centered and self-righteous, she's determined to get the story with very little concern about who she might hurt in the process. Pierce Reed has secrets he wants kept off the front-pages of the Savannah news, but the pretty journalist, Nikki, is being a royal pain in the rear, especially when she finds out he was involved with one of the victims. He has to deal with a leak in the police department, his foul-mouthed partner with ex-husband problems, and a serial killer who taunts him with letters containing clues to who he is and who the next victim will be. Nikki and Pierce will have to put aside their contempt for each others choice of careers and work together in order to catch a killer with an agenda to bring about justice in his own twisted mind. Ms. Jackson's vivid descriptions of places, things and emotions puts you right in the midst of the story. I found myself gasping and on the edge of panic along with the victims. THE MORNING AFTER is a chilling, suspenseful and brilliant tale.
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Summary: Unputdownable
Review: Lumpkin County, North Carolina Sheriff Baldwin calls Savannah cop Pierce Reed to come immediately to a crime scene in a wooded area as his name was found with the deceased. Pierce is shown a coffin containing two bodies and a microphone. Apparently someone Pierce knows Barbara Jean Marx was buried alive with an existing corpse. Savannah Sentinel reporter Nikki Gillette follows Pierce and his partner Sylvie Morrisette as they try to uncover the identity of a serial killer. The culprit seems to be toying with Pierce as the offender appears to intimately know the cop. As Pierce cannot shake off Nikki, he finds himself falling in love with her, a feeling the journalist reciprocates. Neither one knows the connection Nikki has with the psychopath, but Pierce is willing to risk his life to keep his beloved from being the next person buried alive. The latest Lisa Jackson's Georgia police procedural romance (see THE NIGHT BEFORE) is a solid terse tale that hooks the audience from the eerie opening scene until the climax. The story line never slows down from the moment Barbara Jean knows she has been buried alive with a dead body until the final confrontation between the heroes and the villain. Though the motive for the homicides seems crazy (than again the killer is crazy), fans will appreciate the lead couple and his partner as the stress on each of them from love and from the murders is palpable. Once again Ms Jackson provides a terse romantic suspense with the accent on thriller. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Awful
Review: Reading this book was like moving through quick sand, sluggish and difficult. I like distracters in a book because it makes the reader wonder who did it, but there were so many characters used to distract (junk up a really good story) that I finally lost count. It was a struggle to remain focused because of the "junk" the author continued to include in the story. Also, these people were buried alive, where was the emotion from the hero and heroine? The hero was lacked emotion and depth and the heroine was awful. I constantly compared her to a character from a really bad, low budget, horror movie.
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Summary: It was just okay...
Review: Something was lacking in this novel that I just can't quite put my finger on. On the upside, it was a fast read for me and I was able to finish it without being totally disappointed. I think the suspense, or the lack thereof is what kind of gave me a feeling of being let down here and there throughout the book. I'm not a big fan of suspense, so that may have played into my view. Lisa Jackson is definitely gifted to write, but I'm just not sure she should be writing suspense. Perhaps romance....
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Summary: Good
Review: That about sums it up for this one: Good. My only hesitation with the book was the fact that there were myriad characters and my feeble little brain couldn't keep up--my fault, not Jackson's. That said, I did enjoy this book and would highly recommend it. Also recommended: The Life of Pi and McCrae's The Bark of the Dogwood
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