And with Lauren’s future on the line, it’s more important than ever to see this mystery through to the end. She knows better than most that not everything is as it seems. As Lauren’s decade-long obsession with the victim comes to light, Gretchen can’t help but doubt her own instincts. But when she begins to uncover Lauren’s closely guarded secrets, the investigation raises more questions than answers. Because Lauren would have known how to get away with murder.įorced to team up with Lachlan Gibbs, the combative by-the-book star of Internal Affairs and Lauren’s boyfriend, Gretchen starts digging for the truth. Even as the evidence mounts, Gretchen is convinced she’s innocent. The only thing I didn’t like about ‘Her Final Words’ was the opening.

Then Lauren, with fresh blood on her hands, is arrested for an execution-style slaying. A shocking thriller by the bestselling author of Girls of Glass. Book Reviews and Short Stories ‘Her Final Words’ by Brianna Labuskes Posted on by Mike Finn Tightly plotted and tensely told mystery that kept me guessing and gave me a strong sense of a place and its people.

Gretchen White thought Detective Lauren Marconi could never cross certain lines. And a mystery that’s just beginning in a shocking novel of psychological suspense by the Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestselling author of A Familiar Sight.Ĭriminologist Dr.

(Aug.The Librarian of Burned Books, March 2023Ī cold-blooded murder. Labuskes skillfully ratchets up the suspense. As Lucy probes further, she realizes the town’s citizens aren’t who they seem, and she has no idea whom to trust. One of Eliza’s best friends, Molly Thomas, has gone missing, and in the past other people, all members of the True Believers of Christ Church, have also disappeared. What Eliza discovers at Knox Hollow is more than just a simple murder. Lucy’s superior gives her the weekend to see whether her instincts are correct. She wonders why Eliza traveled more than five hours to report the murder rather than inform local authorities. Summary: It seems like an open-and-shut case for FBI special agent Lucy. Keep reading for all the details on the book, where to get it, and our reading schedule This page will be updated with links to each discussion so keep it handy as a reference. But something doesn’t feel right to Lucy. Her final words audio book MP3 / Brianna Labuskes performed by Karen Peakes. Her Final Words by Brianna Labuskes is our book of the month We picked mystery for our genre and Her Final Words beat out the other book choices. She tells Lucy the body’s location and that alongside the victim is the knife that killed Noah and was used to carve a psalm into his skin. At the start of this cleverly plotted mystery from Labuskes ( Girls of Glass), teenager Eliza Cook presents herself at Seattle FBI headquarters, asks for agent Lucy Thorne, and confesses to murdering 12-year-old Noah Dawson in Knox Hollow, Idaho.

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