Having a girl admit to a murder and then remain mute at the beginning of the story is a really intriguing plot device.

Welcoming us into a small town with its own rules and a religious group that seem more like a cult, your curiosity instantly grows, just like it does for FBI special agent Lucy Thorne. With a great premise that led me to choose this book for my Amazon First Reads selection this month, there are some really interesting concepts used in Labuskes detective thriller. Rating: This is my Amazon First Reads selection for July 2020. Then a combing of the woods yields unsettling evidence that Eliza isn’t the only one in this close-knit rural community with secrets. Especially when she’s drawn deeper into the life of the victim. Beyond that, she doesn’t say another word, leaving a vital question met with dead silence: Why did she do it? To find the answer, Lucy goes to the scene of the crime in the small Idaho town of Knox Hollow. Eliza reveals chilling details that only the killer could know. For what seems like an open-and-shut case when Eliza Cook walks into the field office and confesses to murdering a young boy, Lucy isn’t quite so ready to accept that that’s all there is to it. Set to be released next month, Her Final Words is the fifth release from Brianna Labuskes, the first to follow FBI special agent Lucy Thorne. But once their opinion became entangled with their sense of self, logic went straight out the window.” “Most people could be persuaded to listen to reason if they didn’t actually feel that strongly about a topic.

Her Final Words by Brianna Labuskes