Lisa Jackson Final Scream

Final Scream

Lisa Jackson

Zebra, Aug 2005, $7.99

ISBN: 0821777122

In Prosperity, Oregon seventeen years ago, the fire killed several members of the wealthy Buchanan family and devastated their mansion. The blaze was suspicious and most locals assume that the family's nasty patriarch Rex Buchanan was the target because so many people had a motive to kill the SOB. Whoever lit it never was uncovered and remains a cold case.

Journalist Cassidy Buchanan survived the inferno that killed many of her loved ones and drove her out of town away from her teenage crush Brig McKenzie. Seventeen years she feels is enough time to return home to face her fiery demons and seek the truth. Instead another nightmarish fire and murder occurs. The townsfolk wonder if Cassidy as the link between the two incidents is the cause or the intended victim lucky to survive twice. Meanwhile as Brig vows to keep the woman he never stopped loving safe and Cassidy wonders if her beloved is the killer, someone plots to hear her FINAL SCREAM of death.

Lisa Jackson provides a tense thriller that enthralls the audience from the moment that Cassidy learns you can't come home until the climatic confrontation with the killer. The storyline is action-packed as readers will wonder who the culprit is and why while thinking of Hitchcock's Suspicion. Though the answer to the latter question seems a bit weak as a motive, fans of tense suspense with a romantic subplot will want to learn whether the killer gets his or her wish, hearing Cassidy's FINAL SCREAM before dying.

Harriet Klausner