Reviewed by Marina W.
January 20, 2005
"It had me completely surprised when it came to an end. It held so many more surprising details..."
Lisa Jackson's WHISPERS deals with secrets and lies, along with dealing with growing pangs, throughout a family of sisters and their father.
There is a terrible secret keeping three sisters from coming back to a place where they had loved and lost and left as fast as they could. Chinook, Oregon held more than beauty and resorts for two families of great wealth, it held dealdy secrets as well. When the great Dutch Holland decides to run for Govenor he summons his daughters home for a family meeting.
Miranda Holland, an attorney in the D.A.'s office of a nearby county and the oldest, was involved in secrets up to her eyeballs. But, she was going to hold firm and see what her father had up his sleeve.
Claire, the middle daughter, had left home first and gotten married. She was having a disaterious time at marriage, and after sixteen years she is going home to start over in a place she never wanted to come back to...but for her, it was a stable place to start.
Tessa, the youngest, had to be tracked down. She had left town the same as her sisters, and she was the wildcard in the family. And the one who tended to have the shortest fuse.
All the girls meet with their father who after all these years tells them he's finally digging into a murder that was deemed a suicide sixteen years earlier. The girls all react badly to his news. And, added to the fact he didn't trust his own daughters, he had hired a private investigator to investigate a past none of them wanted to remember.
Kane Moran wants to be a real writer--not just for magazines and newspapers. He has chosen to write about the mysterious death of Harlen "Harley" Taggert. This is the cause for Dutch Hollands' call for a meeting of his children. As time has passed these long sixteen years there have been many unanswered questions, and they all go back around to his children and he wants it solved before his announcement to run for govenor. There's so much turmoil in the girls' lives as it is and now this has been a added to their load.
In the midst of the investigation, feelings develop between one of the sisters and Kane. Their passion is too hot to be ignored, but they fight it with everything they have. In the end, the feelings they have for each other just can't be put on hold--not as it once was. Now, as he's trying to fry their family, Kane finds out more than he ever bargined for...there's a ruthless killer stalking them and trying to keep them all from finding out the reason Harley died. As new love begins to blossom and terror is on the brink, the lovers have to fight to stay together against family and foe.
Because this secret tale goes back some years and has to be told in a timely fashion, there's a big part of the story told from the past. There's an expression of the themes: love and loss. I really enjoyed the plots, and the way they took different roads to try leading you away from the real killer. It had me completely surprised when it came to an end. It held so many more surprizing details of these womens' lives that I was totally enthralled. This is only the third book I have read from Ms. Jackson and I really liked it. The romance was there and so was the mystery!
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Book Description for Whispers
When her father decides to run for governor of Oregon, Claire St. John is forced to confront long-buried secrets from the past as she copes with unexpected feelings for Kane Moran, a handsome journalist with a grudge, who threatens to bring old scandals to light.
