See How She Dies

Liked none of the characters. Slow moving. Too much thinking and not enough action. The killer was the two main characters may have been half siblings, but were sexually attracted to each other. When they began kissing I began to gag! Yuk!

An intense story of a highly socialite family who’s five year old daughter is kidnapped. Twenty years later a beautiful woman shows up thinking she might be the missing girl. The family has always thought she was killed. She herself is not positive on who she really is. Many twists and turns. There is a large fortune at stake that no one wants to share. They don’t want to accept her as the long lost sister that they never liked in the first place. Who is she? Is she willing to go through hell to find out who she is? Very interesting. A page turner that you never want to put down. A highly recommended book.

Overall this book was fantastically well rounded. You get pulled in with the promise of excitment, deceit, and lust. Every page seemed to spin you off into a new adventure following Zachary and Adia with the occasional change of tempo while we get to snoop around with the ever popular Sweeny or Jason. A sense of demise seemed to follow you with every hanging word. You get to see the true rankings of the Danvers family completely unravel as if power in the hierarchy is what did them in in the first place. If you are looking for mystery and excitement this is your book. If you are looking for love and sex that will make even the modest of women sweat, this is also your book. The nonstop development of events will keep any reader turning the pages. The occasional repetition of words, though sometimes a little too noticeable, is easy to over look when you have a solid plot and good voice to listen to, so to speak.

Lisa Jackson has written an intriguing romantic suspense with lots of twisty-turns to keep you on your toes, along with emotionally scarred children of rich dysfunctional families, and an ending you won't see coming.

Twenty years ago someone kidnapped London Danvers during her father, Witt Danvers's, sixtieth birthday party. Along with London, Ginny Slade, the nanny had disappeared too. Neither one were heard from again. Not even when Witt Danvers offered one million dollars for the return of his precious daughter...the only daughter and child he had with his second wife Katherine LaRouche.

Not long after, London's mother, Katherine plunged to her death from her residence at the Hotel Danvers. Some say it was suicide; others speculate it was murder. The police ruled it accidental.

Now Adria Nash has come to Portland, Oregon to find her birthright. She believes she's the long lost London Danvers, and if this it true, she stands to inherit fifty percent of the Danvers fortune. But first she has to convince Witt's other four children, from a previous marriage, that she's not one of the many fakes that have paraded before them down through the years.

Zachary Danvers takes one look at her and knows they are in trouble. Adria is the spitting-image of his stepmother Katherine Danvers. His siblings will not like this. They are in no mood to give a complete stranger half of the Danvers fortune even if she turns out to be their half-sister.

From the moment Zachary and Adria meet, the attraction is overwhelming and torturous for Zachary, because he'd once had a short-lived affair with his stepmother. Adria reminded him too damn much of a woman he wanted to forget forever.

Adria tries to fight the attraction but it consumes her and horrifies her at the same time, because Zachary could be her half-brother! She begins to doubt she's London, because there could be no way she would be this attracted to a man who shared her blood. If they acted on their lust and it turned out she really was London, they would be guilty of an unspeakable, forbidden act.

Someone doesn't want the truth known about London Danvers and the circumstances surrounding her abduction, and they are willing to go as far as murder to keep the secret buried.

As usual, once I start a novel by Lisa Jackson, I run home from work, toss on my pajamas, hop in bed and start reading. SEE HOW SHE DIES is one of Ms. Jackson's best.

In 1993 Adria leaves her Montana home to travel to Portland, Oregon where she hopes to learn the truth about whether she is the long lost and thought dead daughter of deceased business mogul Witt Danvers. Witt's three children from his first wife are unhappy that someone once again claims to be London, who vanished twenty years ago. Seven years after London vanished, Witt's second wife, her mom Kat, died in what was thought was a drug induced suicide. However, Kat's killer realizes that Adria is London and plans to rid the chit the same way her mother was disposed of if necessary.

London's half-brother Zachary does not believe that Adria is London. However, when incidents to frighten Adria occur, he becomes protective. Worse he begins to fall in love with his half-sister and she reciprocates though both know this is taboo. As the "stalker" raises the ante to attempted murder, Zach tries to keep her safe though he struggles not to bed her.

This exciting romantic suspense novel hooks readers from the moment that Zach escorts Adria from the family hotel until the final confrontation. Readers will need to adjust to the swinging back and forth between 1970, 1983, and 1993, which can get confusing. Still the cast is solid as the key players have distinct personalities so that sub-genre fans will know this rewrite of TREASURES is worth the read.

Harriet Klausner

Adria Hart has arrived in Portland at the Danvers Hotel in search of the family that she might have been kidnapped from two decades earlier. The Danvers heirs, all grown children of deceased patriarch Witt Danvers are used to long lost sisters surfacing. Witt has an unusual will - half his estate goes to London Danvers - the rest divided among his other heirs, and they will do anything to keep Adria from collecting. While the family is convinced she's a fake, ne'er do well middle son Zach is intrigued by her. She is the spiting image of his stepmother, the woman who took his virginity. On the one hand he thinks she might be his half sister, and on the other hand, he is extremely attracted to her.

Someone does not want Adria to rediscover her family and inheritance - they have gone to great lengths to scare her off, resulting in Zach bringing her out to live with him at his ranch. Several stolen kisses lead to passion in each other's arms, but they realize that until they know whether they are blood-related, they cannot continue the relationship. It is a bit "icky" for lack of a better term, and the outcome is a little too pat and convenient as if to justify the two losing their self control.

Jackson has done what few authors do - she has taken her fist novel ("Treasures") and beefed it up (from 400 to 510 pages). It is clearly packaged as a re-issue with a new name on the back cover, so if this comes as a surprise, you did not read the plot summary. But just because she added 500 pages does not mean it is necessarily better - this is one huge book and a pretty slow read at times, shifting from 1973, 1980, and 1993 to tell the drawn out story.

I loved this book!Never have read Lisa Jackson before and I was a little creeped out by the relationship with Zach and Adria but I was wondering how Ms. Jackson would solve that problem with everyone thinking they were stepbrother and stepsister.I wasn't expecting the ending or the people behind who took little London but It was cool that I was taken by surprise.I have read other authors with the same story with the lost or abandoned sibling comes to claim their birthright but I like MS. Jackson story line the best. Can't wait to read more.

I like most Lisa Jackson books. I agree with someone else's comment about there being a lot of back and forth in the timeline but what really bothered me the most was the relationship between Adria and Zach. Yes, we all know she wouldn't write it if they were really brother and sister but still it's almost to creepy to read at times. It usually takes me less than a day to read a book this size but this book took me almost a week to get through because it didn't keep my interest or I would get creeped out. Maybe it's just me, even knowing they weren't blood relation but still thought they were was weird enough for me.

How easily blood lines can be twisted and turned. Finding out that she is not who she thought she was after being told by her dieing father in a remote Montana farm community that she had been abducted at a young age, London Danvers goes to Portland Oregon seeking her biological family. Suspicious of her motives, her siblings do all they can to keep her from proving her identity, even murder.
This is a moving mystery with lots of genetic twists. Greed is the ultimate reason for most of the action. An interesting read.

If you enjoy suspense and if you love Lisa Jackson books, you will love She How She Dies. I have read and collected all of Lisa's books...she never lets her readers down. An amazing read, excellent story and well written. Brilliant

An intense story of a highly socialite family who’s five year old daughter is kidnapped. Twenty years later a beautiful woman shows up thinking she might be the missing girl. The family has always thought she was killed. She herself is not positive on who she really is. Many twists and turns. There is a large fortune at stake that no one wants to share. They don’t want to accept her as the long lost sister that they never liked in the first place. Who is she? Is she willing to go through hell to find out who she is? Very interesting. A page turner that you never want to put down. A highly recommended book.