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Lisa Jackson
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Lisa Jackson | It Takes A Village August 11, 2009
I never intended to write a series of connected books. I was always a stand
alone girl. Well, okay, there were a few books in Read More...
Lisa Jackson can't keep away from murderers, especially serial killers. She's been helping to kill people everywhere from Savannah and New Orleans to San Francisco and the Pacific Northwest—and it's been worth it as her readers come back again and again, and her novels are fixtures on bestseller lists.
Having made serial killing her business—sort of—she has put her characters through the wringer. They have been up to their necks in danger and stared death, usually a pretty gory one, right in the face. She continues to be fascinated by the minds and motives of both her killers and their pursuers—the personal, the professional and downright twisted. As she builds the puzzle of relationships, actions, clues, lies and personal histories that haunt her protagonists, she must also confront the fear and terror faced by her victims, and the harsh and enduring truth that, in the real world, terror and madness touch far too many lives and families.
Lisa began writing at the urging of her sister, novelist Nancy Bush. Inspired by the success of authors she admired and the burgeoning market for romance fiction at the time, Nancy was convinced they could work together and succeed. They sat down, determined to write and to be published.
They did and they were.
Initially they wrote together. Later, they moved in different directions. Lisa brought more and more suspense to her work and began writing much darker stories. Nancy's writing expanded to include not just her own novels, but she also spent several years writing for one of television's leading soap operas, even transplanting herself for a time from the sister's Pacific Northwest roots to Manhattan. In February 2009 they worked together again—for the first time in years—on WICKED GAME, which received a starred review in Publishers Weekly and became a New York Times bestseller.
In a nutshell, who is Lisa Jackson? Before she became a nationally bestselling author, she was a woman struggling to keep food on the table by writing novels, hoping against hope that someone would pay her for them. Today, neck deep in murder, her books appear on The New York Times, the USA Today, and the Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists. As those who know her can attest, this funny, smart woman who enjoys making the hair stand up on the back of her readers' necks, is a mom, a daughter, a workaholic and an amazing writer.
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Trade Paperback / e-Book Sinister, December 2024 The Wyoming Series
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Trade Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Lost Souls, August 2024 Rick Bentz/Reuben Montoya #5
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Forbidden Secrets, July 2024
Mass Market Paperback Our Little Secret, July 2024
Hardcover / e-Book Chosen To Die, June 2024 Alvarez & Pescoli #2
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book The Last Sinner, June 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book Tell Me, April 2024 Savannah #3
Trade Paperback / e-Book Wicked Dreams, February 2024 The Colony #5
Trade Paperback / e-Book Don't Be Scared, February 2024
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book You Don't Want To Know, January 2024
Trade Paperback / e-Book Malice, November 2023 Rick Bentz/Reuben Montoya #6
Trade Paperback / e-Book Obsession, July 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book The Last Sinner, July 2023 A Bentz/Montoya Novel #9
Hardcover / e-Book Million Dollar Baby, May 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Lost Souls, April 2023 A Rick Bentz/Reuben Montoya #5
Trade Paperback / e-Book Getting Even, March 2023
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book / audiobook Absolute Fear, February 2023 New Orleans Series #4
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Wicked Dreams, January 2023 The Wicked #5
Hardcover / e-Book Twice Kissed, December 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Chosen to Die, November 2022 An Alvarez & Pescoli Novel #2
Trade Paperback / e-Book The Third Grave, August 2022 Savannah # 4
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book The Girl Who Survived, July 2022
Hardcover / e-Book Wicked Ways, June 2022 WICKED SERIES # 4
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Shiver, April 2022 A Rick Bentz/Reuben Montoya Novel # 3
Trade Size / e-Book Afraid, March 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Something Wicked, February 2022 WICKED SERIES #3
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Best-Kept Lies & A Father for Her Baby, January 2022
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Left to Die, December 2021 An Alvarez & Pescoli Novel #1
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Devious, November 2021 New Orleans Series #7
Trade Size / e-Book All I Want from Santa, October 2021
Trade Size / e-Book Best-Kept Secrets & Second Chance Cowboy, September 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Dangerous Revelations, August 2021
e-Book You Betrayed Me, August 2021 The Cahills #3
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Million Dollar Baby, July 2021
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Hardcover / e-Book Wicked Lies, June 2021 The Colony#2
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Absolute Fear, April 2021
Trade Size / e-Book Distrust, March 2021
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Wicked Game, February 2021 The Colony #1
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Twice Kissed, January 2021
Trade Size / e-Book (reprint) The Morning After, December 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book You Betrayed Me, November 2020 The Cahills #3
Hardcover / e-Book Deception Lodge & Expecting Trouble, October 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Last Girl Standing, May 2020
Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Envious, April 2020
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book If She Only Knew, March 2020 The Cahills #1
Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Left for Dead, September 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Paranoid, July 2019
Hardcover Liar, Liar, June 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Paranoid, June 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Unspoken, April 2019
Trade Size / e-Book Backlash, March 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Without Mercy, February 2019
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint) See How She Dies, December 2018
Mass Market Paperback Running Scared, November 2018
Trade Size Santa's on His Way, October 2018
Trade Size / e-Book You Will Pay, August 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Liar, Liar, July 2018
Hardcover / e-Book One Last Breath, May 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Almost Dead, February 2018 San Francisco #2
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Final Scream, January 2018
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book See How She Dies, October 2017
Trade Size Ominous, August 2017 The Wyoming Series
Mass Market Paperback You Will Pay, June 2017
Hardcover Expecting to Die, March 2017
Mass Market Paperback Whispers, February 2017
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book (reprint) After She's Gone, August 2016
Paperback / e-Book Revenge, March 2016
Paperback / e-Book Fatal Burn, February 2016
Paperback / e-Book (reprint) After She's Gone, January 2016
Hardcover / e-Book Never Die Alone, August 2015
Hardcover / e-Book Close to Home, March 2015
Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Wicked Ways, December 2014 The Colony
Paperback / e-Book Our First Christmas, October 2014
Paperback / e-Book Close to Home, September 2014
Hardcover / e-Book Deserves to Die, August 2014
Paperback / e-Book Summer Days, May 2014
Paperback / e-Book Ready To Die, August 2013 To Die #5
Mass Market Paperback / e-Book Tell Me, July 2013
Hardcover / e-Book Something Wicked, June 2013 The Colony #3
Paperback / e-Book Confessions, November 2012
Paperback / e-Book (reprint) Afraid To Die, July 2012 A Selena Alvarez/Regan Pescoli Novel
Paperback / e-Book You Don't Want To Know, July 2012
Hardcover / e-Book Beach Season, May 2012
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Paperback Dark Sapphire, July 2011 Dark Jewels
e-Book (reprint) Wicked Lies, June 2011
Paperback / e-Book Dark Ruby, May 2011 Dark Jewels
e-Book (reprint) Devious, April 2011
Hardcover Wild and Wicked, April 2011
e-Book (reprint) Without Mercy, March 2011
Paperback (reprint) Running Scared, August 2010
Paperback (reprint) Stormy Nights, June 2010
Paperback Without Mercy, April 2010
Hardcover Malice, March 2010
Paperback (reprint) Chosen To Die, August 2009
Paperback Risky Business, May 2009
Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Malice, April 2009
Hardcover Wicked Game, February 2009
Paperback Missing, December 2008
Mass Market Paperback (reprint) Left To Die, August 2008
Paperback High Stakes, June 2008
Paperback (reprint) Sail Away, May 2008
Paperback (reprint) Lost Souls, April 2008
Hardcover Secrets, December 2007
Paperback Sorceress, September 2007
Paperback Almost Dead, August 2007
Paperback The McCaffertys: Randi, April 2007
Paperback Absolute Fear, April 2007
Hardcover Shiver, March 2007
Paperback (reprint) Most Likely to Die, February 2007
Paperback The McCaffertys: Slade, December 2006
Paperback Twice Kissed, August 2006
Paperback (reprint) The McCaffertys: Matt, May 2006
Paperback Shiver, April 2006
Hardcover Fatal Burn, March 2006
Paperback Temptress, October 2005
Paperback Final Scream, August 2005 previously published as INTIMACIES
Paperback (reprint) See How She Dies, August 2004
Paperback (reprint) Santa Baby, October 2002
Paperback Cold Blooded, June 2002
Paperback Slow Heat, September 2001
Paperback Hot Blooded, August 2001
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