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Left To Die
written by Lisa Jackson
Studio : Zebra
by Zebra
Publisher : Zebra
Released : 2008-08-01
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Number of Items : 1
EAN : 9781420102765
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 12 reviews)
List Price : $7.99
Our Price : $4.17
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Book Description |
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NOTHING'S MORE TERRIFYING... One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. The police can't yet see the beauty in his work--but soon, very soon, they will... THAN BEING LEFT ALONE... In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, four bodies have been discovered. Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli have been hoping for a career-making case, but this is a nightmare. Even with the FBI involved, Selena and Regan have nothing to go on but a killer's cryptic notes, and the unsettling knowledge that there is much worse to come... TO DIE... When Jillian Rivers opens her eyes, she's trapped in a mangled car. Then a stranger, claiming to be a trail guide named Zane MacGregor, pries her free. Though she's grateful, something about him sets Jillian on edge. And if she knew what lay out there in the woods of Montana, she'd be truly terrified. Because someone is waiting...watching...poised to strike and make Jillian the next victim... |
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Thrown in the trash... |
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I plodded unhappily through 300 pages of redundant dialogue only to find that the answer to the mystery will come with the purchase of another book in August 09. I am not a happy customer. |
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Poor character development |
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Do not buy this book. She wrote this book without an ending so that you have to buy the next one which doesn't come out till Aug. 2009 The characters were Not well drawn. Lisa seemed to be trying to write three books at once and none of the characters were fleshed out. She skipped around so much that just when I thought I was getting to know a character, she was off on another story all together. I have read all of Lisa's books and this one made me so angry with the lack of ending and the money grabbing way that you have to buy her next book to know the ending that I will not buy another of her books. |
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A pulse-pounding novel that kept me reading into the wee hours of the morning. |
It's November, and sub-zero temperatures and blizzard conditions assault the Bitterroot Mountains near Grizzly Falls, Montana. After the storm, Ivor Hicks --- one of Pinewood County's more eccentric and colorful characters --- discovers the body of a young woman tied to a tree. In his 76 years, whiskey-chugging Ivor has witnessed his share of misery. Decades earlier, he claimed to have been abducted by aliens, who used his body to conduct experiments and then implanted him with an invisible chip. But he has never been as frightened as the day he stumbles upon the dead female.
Ivor's discovery is just the beginning. Grace Perchant --- Grizzly Falls's ghost-whispering "wolf-woman" who communes with the dead --- finds a missing vehicle abandoned in the mountains. As more bodies are found and another woman disappears, the Pinewood County Sheriff's Department, headed by Dan Grayson, re-doubles their efforts. The FBI is called in, and they have their own ideas and ways of operating. After the media gets wind of the gruesome nature of the murders and the clues the killer leaves behind, they dub the psychopathic murderer "the Star Crossed Killer."
With another blizzard approaching and Christmas drawing near, the culprit becomes bolder, taunting the Pinewood County sheriff's deputies with cryptic clues and leaving a trail of victims. Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli take the killings personally and work feverishly to catch the killer, who lures his victims to his den, strips them, ties them to a tree and leaves them to the unforgiving elements.
The two female detectives are "about as alike as oil and water." The diet-conscious, organized and methodical Alvarez is a California transplant and a loner who shares little about her background and next to nothing about her personal life. Alvarez is unrelenting in finding the truth and thrives in a controlled environment, yet she also carries a secret that haunts her.
Pescoli's life is a mess, and everybody knows it. She's a single mother with ex-husbands and two teenagers who test the limits of her patience. Pescoli is an impetuous woman with lusty desires she's not the least bit shy about having met. While lacking self-discipline, her intuition and detective's instincts are spot-on. What both women have in common are their dedication to their jobs and their willingness to do whatever it takes to catch the killer. But will the hunters become the hunted?
In LEFT TO DIE, New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson does a great job making the Montana wilderness and its fascinating residents pop off the pages. She's sure to please her fans who expect fast-paced, tightly-plotted thrillers, and she doesn't shy away from explicit sex scenes or violence. In this first installment of a new series, Jackson has created a pulse-pounding novel that kept me reading into the wee hours of the morning while I tried to figure out the identity of the sadistic killer by the cliffhanger ending. I guess I'll have to wait until 2009 --- when the second book in the series, CHOSEN TO DIE, is released --- to learn more.
--- Reviewed by Donna Volkenannt |
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enjoyable.....but part 2?? |
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Book was good, but i dont like being forced into part 2!!! what the heck?? Ever since Dean Koontz promised Frankenstein 3 about 5 YEARS AGO....so now, i finished this book...aug of 2008. the last page says..see Chosen to Die with all the same cast in AUGUST 2009.....ummmm i like to see a part 2 coming.....i like to choose what i get sucked into...:( |
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Now I remember why I stopped reading Lisa Jackson's books |
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Apparently I had forgotten that she gets 500 pages by writing at least 200 pages of junk. This really only highlights the fact that her limit of good writing tops out at about 300 pages. I nearly gave up on the book several times but then just started skimming everything that wasn't in quotes so I could finish it and find out who the killer is - only to find out that I would have to buy her next book in August of 2009 if I want to know. I won't be spending another dime or wasting another minute on a Lisa Jackson book. |
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