Her Final Words

 

Final Words by Brianna Labuskes. Seattle: Thomas & Mercer, 2020. 343 pages. ****

Eliza Cook walks into the FBI Field Office and asks to see Special Agent Lucy Thorne. Eliza confesses to killing a young boy with details that only the killer could know and then Eliza goes mute. Lucy is troubled by the lack of motive and is determined to find out the truth. Knox Hollow is a small town in Idaho with many secrets to hide and Lucy makes it her mission to expose them. It seems like an open-and-shut case until others go missing and additional bodies are found. Can Sheriff Hicks be trusted and what is he hiding? Is there a serial killer hiding in this Church controlled town or just a series of unfortunate natural deaths? 

 

This psychological thriller will have you guessing until the very end.  I enjoyed Labuskes technique for revealing the back-story. Starting with a confession and then gradually introducing the main characters kept me reading and questioning whether Eliza is a killer and why she confessed to Noah's murder if she isn't one. Total escapism, read it in 2 days and was sorry to see it end.

 

Brianna Labuskes was born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and graduated from Penn State University with a degree in journalism. For the past eight years, she has worked as an editor at both small-town papers and national media organizations such as Politico and Kaiser Health News, covering politics and policy. She is the author of the psychological suspense novels Black Rock Bay, Girls of Glass, and It Ends with Her. Brianna lives in Washington, DC, and enjoys traveling, hiking, kayaking, and exploring the city’s best brunch options. Visit her at www.briannalabuskes.com. 

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