The synopsis says that “Getting to the truth is becoming Lucy’s obsession”, but I didn’t feel that, either. But we didn’t get to know anything about her outside of this crime, so I couldn’t relate to her as well as I wanted to.

Obsessions get people killed.” Maybe the comment was just to link to the obsessions involved in the case, but I thought we were going to find out something about Lucy’s past, something that happened to her that drives her ambition and interest in certain cases. At the start of the book, Lucy’s boss says, “You have to promise-don’t get sucked in, Lucy. I liked the lead character of Lucy, but I did hope to get to know her a little more personally. Labuskes ties up all of her loose ends and makes an effort to explain Eliza’s reasoning at the end, but it just didn’t fill that gap for me. And I’m sad to say that I don’t think the justifications for Eliza’s actions were enough, with the plot device only working to drag the story out. But using such a mechanism so early also means that you’re constantly on the lookout to see whether it makes any sense in the bigger picture, or if it has merely been used to create some suspension early on. Having a girl admit to a murder and then remain mute at the beginning of the story is a really intriguing plot device. Welcoming us into a small town with its own rules and a religious group that seem more like a cult, your curiosity instantly grows, just like it does for FBI special agent Lucy Thorne. With a great premise that led me to choose this book for my Amazon First Reads selection this month, there are some really interesting concepts used in Labuskes detective thriller. Rating: This is my Amazon First Reads selection for July 2020. Then a combing of the woods yields unsettling evidence that Eliza isn’t the only one in this close-knit rural community with secrets. Especially when she’s drawn deeper into the life of the victim.

Beyond that, she doesn’t say another word, leaving a vital question met with dead silence: Why did she do it? To find the answer, Lucy goes to the scene of the crime in the small Idaho town of Knox Hollow. Eliza reveals chilling details that only the killer could know. For what seems like an open-and-shut case when Eliza Cook walks into the field office and confesses to murdering a young boy, Lucy isn’t quite so ready to accept that that’s all there is to it.

Set to be released next month, Her Final Words is the fifth release from Brianna Labuskes, the first to follow FBI special agent Lucy Thorne. But once their opinion became entangled with their sense of self, logic went straight out the window.” “Most people could be persuaded to listen to reason if they didn’t actually feel that strongly about a topic.

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