Whispers

by Lisa Jackson

Book Overview

Set in a small town on the Oregon coast, #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson's chilling novel explores a family's twisted legacy of lies and murdera a Even a man as powerful as Dutch... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821776037
• ISBN13: 9780821776032
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Zebra Books
• Length: 447 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 4.2" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

Great Book

This book has everything to make a great book, love, hate, murder, and deceit. The story begins with two families that are fueding, the Taggert's and the Holland's. Dutch Holland has three daughters, Miranda, Claire, and Tessa. Neal Taggert has two son, Weston, Harley, and a daughter Paige. Harley want's to marry Claire, but the families are against it, and Claire thinks that Harley is still seeing his ex-girfriend Kendall. Weston is the wild son, the athlete, popular, great at the comapny they own, but nothing pleases him. The story starts with Harley's death after Claire breaks their engagement, and the cover-up of who killed him, or was it really suicide. The story goes to the past and then back to the present. Dutch Holland wants to run for mayor, but he is afraid his daughters may have been involved with the murder 16 yrs. ago. This was such a great book, and there is so much more than I could put in a review. The love affairs when they were all teenagers, the people that disappeared, the ones's who fought against their family's name to have love. I liked the part when Lisa Jackson takes the story back 16 years, I think that could have been the whole book in itself. I liked the book, hated for it to end. Was really one of the better books that I have read lately, but Lisa Jackson always writes good books.

Excellent storytelling

In Oregon, sixteen years ago someone killed Harley Taggert. Influential business mogul Dutch Holland bribed law enforcement officials to close the case because he feared one of his three daughters is the murderer event though he no idea which one committed the act.Dutch plans to run for governor and wants all family secrets out in the open. He calls his three adult children to his home and asks who killed Harley. DA lawyer Miranda denies any involvement. Mother of two children Claire, recovering from a divorce from a pervert-rapist spouse, also says she had nothing to do with the homicide. The youngest Tessa the rebel tells her dad to stick it. Expecting no more, Dutch hires private detective Frank Petrillo to investigate at the same time that local bad boy turned international journalist Kane Moran has come home to write a book about the murder.This is an improved rewrite of a solid romantic suspense tale released in the nineties that shows sometimes if it isn't broke, it still may be worth bettering it. Lisa Jackson shows how confident and clever she has become as an author as motives are stronger and easier to understand leading to a more powerful and deeper cast as well as a different climax. Fans of the author and those who enjoy a taut romantic suspense thriller will shout aloud how good this one is, but as a bonus get a copy of the very well written mid 1990s version (don't say a word about storage) to see the maturity of a rising star.Harriet Klausner

Complex Tale of Sex, Greed and Murder in a Small Town...

Very different from what I've read. This is truly a complex tale filled with heart-pounding suspense and a serious whodunnit atmosphere that will keep you guessing.There is some graphic violence and gritty sex scenes, but the story would not be the same without it. A tightly woven tale about three very different sisters summoned to their childhood home in a tiny town in Oregon by the lake to their father who is about to run for governor but needs to ask them about a deep secret the sisters have been keeping between them for the past 16 years.The eldest sister Miranda is an attorney and controls the three sisters and is the main keeper of the 'secret'.Claire is the middle child who is recently divorced and has two children. She dreads coming back here to where that one summer so long ago changed her life.Tessa is the youngest and the 'wild child'. Not really doing anything with her life except drinking and sleeping around, she is downright belligerant.But that summer back in 1980 keeps them bonded and silent and afraid.Throw in the badboy across the lake Kane and a prominant family who battled with the them all and a mysterious set of murders that one summer and you have a twisted and complex tale that will keep you flipping the pages earnestly and still stunned each time something comes to light.Ms. Jackson begins with the present(1996), then backtracks to that fateful summer of 1980 where it all began and then back again, giving us a very detailed and frightening look into this small town's secrets. I was done with this book in a matter of hours. It is that good. A keeper!Tracy Talley~@

A complex tale of lies and betrayal....

Claire Holland has come home to Oregan after her marriage crumbles. After a summons from her father, Claire returns to find out that the truth about one night sixteen long years ago is finally going to come out. Not only that, but Claire has her own truth to deal with, including the boy whom she finally realized she loved, Kane Moran. After one passion filled night, Kane left town to join the army and Claire never saw him again.Miranda Holland has her own secrets to keep, ones that she will guard religously. Only two people beside herself know what happened on the night Harley Taggert was killed. After getting pregnant by the boy she loved, Miranda thought she had it all. Although she knew she would have to put her career on hold, it was worth it to have the man she loved and a the baby that they made together. Now all the lies are about to come out and Miranda can only wait for the fall out.Tessa Holland has been fighting her own demons for all the years that Miranda lied for her. Never being the strong one like Miranda, nor the smart one like Claire, Tessa knew she came up short. Messing up her life at an early age cost her much, but she knew that when all the truth came out, she would be the one at fault.Kane Moran fell for Claire fast. It was a classic case of the princess and the peasant, but he only now realizes that she felt more than pity for him. Never having much, Kane knew that one day he would amount to something, and when he did, Dutch Holland, father to the three Holland girls, would pay for messing up his life. And it starts with writing the book of the Holland family, to stop Dutch from becoming govenor. Kane soon realizes that his love for Claire means more to him than any fame or revenge and all he can do is protect her and her family as best as he can.Whispers is a very complex tale of so many lies that I don't know how the reader can keep track of them! These four characters will tug on your heartstrings and the other characters involved will make you sick. In her classic tale of romance and suspense, Lisa Jackson doesn't dissapoint!

Great Book!

This book has it all: mystery, suspense, romance.... I enjoyed reading it. I'd also reccommend Lisa Jackson's book Treasures. I haven't read any of her other books yet, but I am planning to. If you like the romance/suspense stories penned by Nora Roberts, you'll like Lisa Jackson.