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Left To Die | 
 enlarge | Author: Lisa Jackson
Publisher: Zebra
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  38 reviews
Sales Rank: 7993
Media: Mass Market Paperback
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Pages: 484
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.5
ISBN: 1420102761
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9781420102765
ASIN: 1420102761
Publication Date: August 1, 2008
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NOTHING'S MORE TERRIFYING... One by one, the victims are carefully captured, toyed with, then subjected to a slow and agonizing death. Piece by piece, his exquisite plan takes shape. The police can't yet see the beauty in his work--but soon, very soon, they will... THAN BEING LEFT ALONE... In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, four bodies have been discovered. Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli have been hoping for a career-making case, but this is a nightmare. Even with the FBI involved, Selena and Regan have nothing to go on but a killer's cryptic notes, and the unsettling knowledge that there is much worse to come... TO DIE... When Jillian Rivers opens her eyes, she's trapped in a mangled car. Then a stranger, claiming to be a trail guide named Zane MacGregor, pries her free. Though she's grateful, something about him sets Jillian on edge. And if she knew what lay out there in the woods of Montana, she'd be truly terrified. Because someone is waiting...watching...poised to strike and make Jillian the next victim...
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 Left to Die- A Joyfully Recommended Title October 7, 2008
He has a plan. Only he sees the beauty in it. His victims go from being terrified, to being relieved, to being shocked and terrified at the same time. The game he plays is a game that only he knows the rules for.
The police have found his first four victims, his cryptic notes, and the realization they have no knowledge of what he is trying to do or who he is. They don't even want to contemplate where he is going with his game. They do know they will not like it.
Jillian Rivers is in a car accident. Unknowingly, she is part of a killer's game. When she is freed from her car by Zane McGregor, she is not sure what to think or what to feel.
Left to Die had me from the first moment I started reading. Ms. Jackson knows how to start with a bang and keep the tension going from chapter to chapter. She makes the reader think about how safe can sometimes be not as safe as we think. I found myself so enraptured with her writing, I could not put the book down. I needed to know who the killer was, if I figured out who the killer was, and where Jillian and Zane were going to end up. And I was flipped all over mentally, and I still did not figure it out. I was so very impressed with Left to Die, I have to Joyfully Recommend it.
Emma
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 Not A Complete Story Unto Itself! Stay Tuned for a Sequel! October 1, 2008
I strongly agree with other reviewers. I am greatly disappointed with the lack of plot closure in Left to Die.
Unless clearly stated, readers reasonably expect an author to provide a completed story in one volume. Page 497 "Dear Reader" is too late to be making this announcement. If the book cover had stated "Part One", I would've have accepted this lack of closure without complaint. Not knowing the story is "to be continued", until reaching the final chapter and finding it unresolved, is unacceptable.
Personally, I prefer to read a series from beginning to end, or at least over a relatively short period of time. Otherwise, the emotional interest I've invested in the previous book has disappeared by the time the sequel comes out - and I'm less likely to purchase it.
The bottom line is that once the reader has momentum, he/she wants to read the entire series. Since the readers are the ones who buy the books, I hope that Ms. Jackson and her publisher will listen to them and reduce the amount of time between books.
I rated this book a four instead of a five based on the lack of plot closure.
A great read! October 1, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This was my first Lisa Jackson novel and it won't be my last. I found the story gripping and exciting. I really liked the characters, especially jillian. My only gripe is I have to wait until August 2009 to see what happens next. Such a long time!
All in all a great premise and I read the book in two days! Now I want to go out and buy another of her books!
 Left to Die September 29, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am a fairly new Lisa Jackson fan, but have read alot of her work. This book is SO unlike her style. It started well but there were too many characters to follow, too many unresolved issues, and the end was VERY disapointing. There is too much left to find out and givent he way this story went I dont want to read the next to find out what happens.
 WARNING - READ BEFORE BUYING September 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Readers Beware - I've long been a fan of Lisa Jackson's - however publishing a book WITHOUT AN ENDING AND EXPECTING READERS TO WAIT 12 MONTHS before being able to finish it is a cheap shot and an insult to her readers. She literally ends this book with the killer having the victim in his (?) hands. Lisa Jackson, I'm done - you can't treat your readers this way and expect them to come back.
Read at your own risk. If you HAVE to read this, I'd suggest waiting to buy it until 8/09 when Chosen to Die (apparently not a sequel, but literally the 2nd part of this book) is published. You've been warned.
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