Series Name: Frankie Elkin, # 3
Review By Veronica
Still See You Everywhere is a gripping and fascinating suspense thriller.
Favourite Quote:
Kaylee Pierson is stunning. Rich black hair. High, sculpted cheekbones. Dark, slanted eyes set in lightly bronzed skin that speak to her Hawaiian heritage. She moves with a catlike grace as she enters the room, powered by a sinewy, muscular presence she makes no effort to dimmish. I can absolutely see this gorgeous woman leading men home from bars. And I can also imagine her bulging arms wielding a saw over their dead bodies hours later. A beautiful butcher, indeed.
Goodreads Synopsis:
Frankie Elkin is an expert at finding the missing persons that the rest of the world has forgotten, but even she couldn’t have anticipated this latest request—to locate the long-lost sister of a female serial killer facing execution in three weeks’ time.
She has called herself “death,” but people called her the devil.
The case was sensational. Kaylee Pierson had confessed from the very beginning, waived all appeals. Despite the media’s chronicling of her tragic circumstances—the childhood spent with a violent father—no one could find sympathy for “the Beautiful Butcher” who had led eighteen men home from bars before viciously slitting their throats.
Now, with only twenty-one days left to live, Pierson has finally received a lead on the whereabouts of the sister who was kidnapped over a decade ago, and she needs Frankie’s help to find her. The Beautiful Butcher’s offer:
When was the last time your search ended with finding the living?
Unable to resist the chance for a rescue, Frankie takes on Pierson’s request. Twelve years ago, five-year-old Leilani went missing in Hawaii. The main suspect? Pierson’s tech mogul ex-boyfriend, Sanders MacManus. Now, on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific—the site of MacManus’s latest vanity project—fresh evidence has appeared. In order to learn the truth and possibly save a young woman’s life, Frankie must go undercover at the isolated base camp. Her challenge: A dozen strangers. Countless dangerous secrets. Zero means of calling for help. And then the storm rolls in…
The premise of this book piqued my interest. I love anything having to do with serial killers, and I was fascinated with the plot idea of this serial killer on death row hiring someone to find her missing sister. I ended up liking this book. A few parts didn’t click with me, but overall, it was an enjoyable read. This book is part of the Frankie Elkin series, but if you are like me and new to the series, don’t worry. This book can be read alone. There are a few moments when having that entire backstory on Frankie’s character would have been nice, but it didn’t ruin my reading experience. Lisa knows how to structure her thrillers in a way that is guaranteed to take her readers on a twisty, suspenseful ride. This book takes place on a remote island off the coast of Hawaii. I enjoyed that feeling of isolation and being cut off from the rest of the outside world. It adds to that sense of suspense. My only complaint is that when Frankie arrives on the island, Lisa drags out the description of the island. It didn’t fit with the rest of the book’s pacing.
In this book, two mysteries are unfolding at the same time. You have Frankie looking for Kaylee’s sister, who Sanders may have taken, and then you have these dangerous incidents happening at the resort that seems to have this goal of undermining the launch of Sander’s resort. As a reader, you know that these two mysteries are connected, but you don’t know how. The method Frankie uses to find a missing person is to talk to those who may have a connection to that missing person. It’s a slightly slower, less exciting method for solving a mystery, but it is interesting. The cast of characters on this island is complex and diverse, and I loved watching Frankie talk and make connections with them. The ending of this book had me at the edge of my seat and completely blew my mind. I just devoured the unexpected direction Lisa took me in. It was so good.
Still See You Everywhere is a gritty and thrilling novel that I could not put down.
Thank you, Grand Central Publishing, for the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
