I really enjoy this authors work and I thought this book was another winner. The story is a really good murder mystery with a ton of possible suspects and a lot of surprises that helped to keep me interested throughout. Highly recommend!

I saved a quote on Litsy while reading this book. "Who would have thought she would experience this horror at church camp?" This thought ran through my mind the entire time I was reading this book. Two counselors and a handyman all go missing one summer from a church camp. A murderer had escaped prison and was on the loose. Now years later, after everyone safely tucked that nightmare summer in the pit of their memory, human remains have been found. The female counselors are trying to decide if they are going to stick to their story they crafted years ago. They did it because they all had a lot to lose and secrets they wanted kept. Years later, those secrets are still better off left at camp. The owner's son is now a deputy and reliving the nightmare of the summer his girlfriend went missing. What a crazy twisted book. No one is safe from scandal. From beginning to end, scandal bombs are dropped on the reader. I was shocked at the ending, although I wasn't necessarily surprised at who the killer was.

My thanks to NetGalley and Kensington Books for an ARC of “You Will Pay” by Lisa Jackson, in exchange for an honest review.

Twenty years ago in a sleepy coastal town in Oregon, a group of wild teenagers were working as counselors at a church camp run by Lucas’ father, a reverend. Among the teens was Lucas’ girlfriend, Elle, and Bernadette, the girl who had him mesmerized. Then, a male camp employee, Elle, another female counselor, and a murderous prison escapee all disappeared within a week of each other, leading to the permanent closure of the camp.

When a local man finds a human skull buried in sand and shallow waters, Lucas—now a detective—is called in to investigate, and when it is determined that the bones belong to one of the missing counselors, the case is reopened. The remaining female counselors—who lied to the police back then—return to the town to be re-interviewed by the authorities, and they’re terrified the truth will come out and ruin the lives they’ve created for themselves. Then, they each receive a text from an unknown sender, with an image that looks like one of the missing counselors, and the message, YOU WILL PAY.

The quick-paced plot alternates from past to present, from the points of view of all the counselors, and as their secrets are slowly revealed, rather than shed light on what happened to those who went missing, it merely creates motives for their disappearance and serves to ratchet up the tension, leaving you guessing until the end, and resulting in a surprising conclusion. The ending was a little over-the-top, but if you’re looking for a fun, suspenseful read this summer, this would be a great book to take with you to the beach.

Lots of twists and turns and surprises in this one. Kept me guessing to the end. I love that in a mystery!!

You Will Pay is a stand alone (as far as I know) book by Lisa Jackson. I'm big on Lisa Jackson, I have read a bunch of her older stuff. You Will Pay reminds me of a couple of things the video game, Until Dawn, and the movie, I Know What You Did Last Summer. (it's way better then the movie but the video game is so good it's hard to compete with it.) The main difference between these two and this book is that revenge is a dish best served cold, very cold, twenty years cold. It is very complicated story that has you guessing and a decent twist at the end, it also kind of dark, I like that. Unfortunately the pacing and character introduction was not to my liking, it was interesting how she did it, it not unusual for LJ to do the flip flopping between past and present, alternating to different POVs in the past to get the different sides of the story, it was nice but there are seven to nine different POVs to keep track of and I just had a hard time getting into the story especially since most of the characters are really annoying.

It starts off with a young woman standing on the edge of a cliff ready to commit suicide, she's a very religious and young with no idea what to do she has her epiphany and chooses not to go through with it, just then someone comes out of the woods and pushes her over. Her body is never found. A day later two more people disappear, many lay the blame of the disappearances at the hands of the convict that escaped and went missing. This all happened on the grounds of a religious summer camp and the three people who went missing were all camp counselors. Twenty years later remains are found on the beach.

Lucas was there that summer, he was a counselor and is the son of the preacher who ran the camp. He dated the first girl who went missing, it was a very bad summer for him and he prefers not to remember it, but he's a sheriff's deputy and with the skeletal remains showing up on the beach he knows it's all going to come up again. Bernadette was also a camp counselor back then and she fell in love with Lucas but after what happened she wanted to put it all behind her and never contacted him again, but now not only is the Sheriff's department asking her to come in for questioning about what happened back then but an independent journalist, who also happened to be one of the kids at the camp that year is also hounding her for questions. Jo-Beth was the self appointed leader of the counselors back then she devised the story everyone would tell, a story she devised to cover her own ass in the prank she played on one of the other counselors, because after all Monica deserved it but then Monica herself went missing. The secrets are all coming out whether people want them to or not and old romances are being revised.

Overall, it was a good read, not my favorite of her but it was a good read. I didn't predict the ending but it wasn't all that surprising.

The author never let me down. I appreciate the way she blends the history with the present in telling the story. I could not put the but down. I had to find out what happened. And oh what an ending.

Thank you NetGalley for the copy of You Will Pay by Lisa Jackson that I read and reviewed.
This book was okay. It had a lot going on and a number of mysteries going on at the same time. I did enjoy the story but it moved a bit slow for me.
I am giving You Will Pay three out of five stars.

I am a long-time fan of Lisa Jackson, so I jumped at the chance to preview another of her books. I had to look at the details several times, because this didn't have the normal feel of her books.

The characters were complex, but mostly unlikeable. For all the plotting of what the counselors were "hiding", I never got a good feel of what most of them had to hide - perhaps as teens, but not as adults. The plot sped along, and there were a few surprises, but the wrap-up was almost too fast.

Twenty years ago there was a camp called Camp Horseshoe , it was run and owned by Rev, Jeremiah and his second wife Naomi.The camp was a religious summer camp. There were nineteen teen counselors. Two went missing- Elle and Monica and were never seen again. Also a male teen counselor had been stabbed in the back and seriously injured and another worker Clint had also disappeared. And an escaped prisoner that had been in the area and disappeared.The counselors had disappeared on different days. The camp closed after the teens had disappeared. Lucas and Elle had been dating when she disappeared.Lucas had worked at the camp that summer so long ago. Several teen counselors led by Mary Jo had tried to put the fear of God into Monica. The teen counselors hooked up and played pranks and had secrets. Then twenty years later a partial skull had been found and this reopened the case of the teen counselors who had never been seen again..Lucas is now a Detective and he and his partner will be working the cold case. Lucas was the son of Jeremiah who had been the camp owner. Kinley had been a camper at the camp in Monica’s cabin when she had went missing. Now Kinley is a blogger and thinks she has the story that will launch her into a reporter’s career. She starts calling the people who had been counselors twenty years ago when she heard remains had been found. Seven of the people who had been teen counselors came back to tell the story from their point of view. A lot of counselors had not been entirely honest twenty years ago and now they just wanted the truth to be known.
I liked the story but had mixed feelings about it. Definitely not one of Ms Jackson best. There was just too many stories and characters in this book. I also didn’t really like switching back and forth between past and present.but that did bring forth information that was needed. This felt a little rushed to me even with the fast pace included. I did like the plot. It had a surprise ending. Things were repeated that didn’t need to be as far as I am concerned. This was also a little hard to follow at times. There was a lot in this story: lies, betrayal. Pregnancy, violence, deception, murder, deception, incest,secrets and much more in this story. I did like the book and liked most of the ins and outs but as I said did have mixed feelings.

I'll be honest and say that the whole "summer camp" theme sold me on this one, Camp Crystal Lake will forever have me intrigued with this subject and while there was no Jason Voorhees in this story---there was plenty of drama.
I struggled a bit in the beginning as we went back and forth from present and past in different character perspectives. A got a little bored reading about the characters and thier current lives (much of what had nothing to do with the storyline-imo) but felt it picked up towards the end and tied up everything a bit too neatly.
The story was good---nothing earth shattering, just okay.
Thanks to netgalley for the opportunity to read and review!

3.5 Stars!

Dark, complex, and extremely suspenseful!

This is an action-packed novel that delves into how manipulative, oppressive and malicious teens can truly be and the extent to which they will go to try to fit in.

It is, ultimately, a story about secrets, friendship, coming-of-age, obsession, jealousy, adultery and murder.

The writing is well done. The characters are cunning, selfish and deceptive. And the plot is written in an alluring past/present, back-and-forth style that unravels piece-by piece all the personalities, relationships, motivations and actions within it.

When it comes to writing thrilling mysteries Lisa Jackson is one of the best. However, I do have to admit that even though I enjoyed this story and the surprise ending, I did find the characters to be somewhat unsympathetic and the plot to have a little too many twists and turns for me to fully connect and completely love it.

Thank you to NetGalley, especially Kensington Books, for providing me with a copy in exchange for an honest review.

In a new standalone novel, Lisa Jackson creates a fascinating mystery, anchored in the past, with reverberations in the present. It's another winner from Jackson, though not quite one of my favorites (though that's a tall order, because her books are generally very good).

Twenty years ago, a group of young people were thrown together at a Christian summer camp. As expected hormones and bad behavior raged, culminating in the disappearance of three of the camp's young employees. Now, as a set of bones are discovered, The unsolved disappearances are getting a fresh look. Everyone has something to hide and everyone behaved poorly, but who is a killer? The remaining group is determined to find out.

The mystery of what happened all those years ago is at the heart of this novel. It's so suspenseful and twisty, you can't help but get sucked in and want to find out what happened. There's enough things that will keep you turning pages.

I didn't figure it all out. I had some ideas, but the final outcomes remained a mystery to me. I loved the suspense in this novel and was satisfied with how things turned out. Everything seemed to wrap up nicely.

The novel is not only told in both the past and the present, it is told from various viewpoints, as Jackson shows what happened 20 years ago from all angles. While this provides some good information and adds to the mystery, it does make it hard to really connect with any of the characters.

Because of that, the romance fell flat for me. But I was really in it for the mystery anyway. That's the gem of this novel and what Jackson really does best: creating a world of suspense and mystery that drags you in.

I'll be interested to see if these characters will return for another novel. I wouldn't mind seeing more of Maggie, Annette or Nell. If this does turn into a series, I'll definitely be picking up the future books!

Highly recommended.

You Will Pay by Lisa Jackson is full of twists and romance with an ending that will shock you. It follows teen counselors from Camp Horseshoe's mysterious disappearance of two counselors to twenty years in the future. All of the counselors seem to hold a piece of the mystery. The chapters go back and forth from then to now with each of the characters. It slowly builds to the shocking answers. You won't want to go camping again!

*ARC provided by NetGalley for an honest review.

I wanted to finally try this author. I have seen many books with her name on it but I have yet to try one. This one was a little disappointing because the story moved back and forth a lot from past to present. It was hard to follow. Camp Horseshoe is a religious summer camp where some people disappeared 20 years ago. In the present their bodies are discovered, the mystery of what happened is being told to us. I will try this author again because I do not always hold one book against authors because some are better than others, I think. I have some other books of hers on my shelf and I want to give this author a fair try before I decide her books are not for me. This book felt a little rushed and just not what I expected from an author this so many other books in publication. * I received this book from Netgalley---this is my honest review*

Our story is set in and around Camp Horseshoe; an independent summer camp for kids, run by a dubious Reverend, employing teenage counsellors. The book starts off 20 years in the past when something happened at the camp. Something that has been covered up by those involved for all that time.
Fast forward the 20 years to the present day. A body is found. I say body, I actually mean skeleton. Skeleton means old case. Could this body be related to what happened at the camp? People are still missing from that time, could this be one of them? As Lucas Dalton starts to investigate, it becomes clear that his involvement could taint things so he is taken off the case. Determined to get to the bottom of things, he carries on in his own way. As most of the cast from 20 years ago re-assemble in town, pulled back from their new lives, will their determination to keep what they now have win over telling the actual truth or will someone crack? Throw into the mix, one of the campers at the time, now a tabloid journalist, will she win the race to the truth instead? What really happened at Camp Horseshoe all those years ago? Was it just a silly prank gone wrong or is it all the more sinister?
The action takes place in two timelines. We have the present, starting from the discovery and going forward through the investigation, and the past starting which flits about a wee bit as it eventually merges with the truth being outed in the present. The chapters are told from the perspective of several of the characters so you do also get a wee bit of overlap as the same scene is played out from a couple of perspectives. But this is not repetitive, rather it's quite telling and an effective story telling method. We meet a fair few cast member and get to see how their lives have changed over the years. See what they have become, see how what happened has tainted, or otherwise, their lives. There were quite a few players in the game here and I do admit to getting a tad confused as to who I was hearing from at times initially but, as the books went on, as the characters were better fleshed out, I managed to follow easier as their voices had become more individual. I also do have to admit to not really liking many of them. I guess that's by nature but I didn't quite get enough of that "connection with the characters" feeling that I crave and need in a book.
Pacing was on the whole good but I did feel that, as we reached the climax, it was a little too rushed. Too frenetic. A bit too much for me.
All in all, an interesting story which held my attention, on the whole, nicely and left me with a mostly satisfied feeling. This is a new author for me and it surprised me when I looked her up and saw her rather impressive back catalogue. After reading this book, taking all the positives out of it, I would be interested in reading more from her.

My thanks go to the Publisher and Netgalley for the chance to read this book.

I loved this book there isn't a Lisa Jackson book out there' that I haven't read I was truly grateful to get the opportunity to read this book. If u have been looking forward to this book you should be once again Lisa Jackson does a wonderful job.. it starts off with a prank a way to blow off steam camp horseshoe. Than you will have to find outrage rest . This such a interesting book and had me on my toes ..big fan of her work five stars for sure ..

YOU WILL PAY
LISA JACKSON


MY RATING ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️▫️
PUBLISHER Kensington
PUBLISHED May 30, 2017

"A riveting and intricately woven novel of suspense surrounding two missing teenage counselors at a summer camp "

SUMMARY
Camp Horseshoe is close now. It's closed 20 years ago when two of the female counselors, Elle Brady and Monica O' Neal went missing on two separate days. One of the male counselors had also been stabbed in the back. Everyone believes an escape prison convict was responsible. But the convict has never been found, and there has been no evidence of the missing girls or the stabbing, until now. The partial remains of a body has been found by a local fishermen in a cave on the grounds of Camp Horseshoe.

There were other seven female counselors at Camp Horseshoe when Elle and Monica disappeared: Bernadette and Annette Alsace, Jo-Beth Chancellor, Reva Mercado, Jayla Williams, Sosa Gaffney and Nell. These girls all have something different to hide. Now that the investigation is being renewed the camp counselors are gathering in Averille, Oregon to go over the story they are going to tell the detectives.

Kinley Marsh was a camper at Camp Horseshoe when the camp was shut down. She had been in Monica's cabin. She had always been an bookish, but bright inquisitive girl. Now twenty years later she is a blogger and thinks she has just the story that has the potential to launch her reporter career. She starts calling the counselors for interviews once she hears about the remains being found.

The tall, blond ruggedly handsome Lucas Dalton is a detective assisting in the investigation. But Lucas was also at Camp Horseshoe when the girls disappeared. His father was the domineering, preacher Jeremiah Dalton who owned and ran Camp Horseshoe. And complicating matters even further is that Lucas and Elle had been dating until right before her disappearance. Could Lucas be involved?



REVIEW
Like most of Lisa Jackson novels, YOU WILL PAY is full of interesting and well developed characters, combined with a suspense-filled fast moving story. Her writing is clear and the book is an easy quick read.

While the book contains a huge cast of characters, all the main characters are well developed and intriguing. The interplay between the characters keeps you guessing about who has the motive and the means to make either of these two girls disappear. And are they missing or dead? Who's body has been found? You are left guessing until the very end.

Lisa Jackson is a New York Times best-selling author of over 40 novels. YOU WILL PAY can surely be added to that list!

Thanks to Kensington Books, Lisa Jackson and Netgalley for an advanced reading copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

What started as a semi-fun summer working at a church camp ended with 2 teenage female camp counselors, one older male worker & an escaped convict missing. No one knew what happened & the camp ended up closing down. Fast forward 20 years & bones have been discovered in the sandy beach at the camp. Did they belong to one of the 4 missing or someone else? One of the male counselors, the minister's son Lucas, is now a deputy on the police force. This case has always bothered him & even being thrown of the case won't stop him this time.

Lisa Jackson is a master at writing mysteries. Her plot twists & turns with new evidence being discovered at different times. I wasn't able to figure out who did this until the end. The dialogue jumps back & forth between the two time periods & different characters viewpoints. At times it made it a little confusing but it also made me pay more attention to what I was reading. There was also a little redundancy in the facts & stories jumping from the different viewpoints but I think that was meant to show which facts they all remembered the same & which they didn't. The characters are realistic & relatable as was the plot. We've all attended church camp & known characters similar to this group. I can't wait to see what Lisa Jackson thinks up next.

You Will Pay
by Lisa Jackson
Kensington Books







Kensington

General Fiction (Adult) , Mystery & Thrillers

Pub Date 30 May 2017

Archive Date 02 Jun 2017
I am reviewing You Will Pay through Kensington Books and Netgalley:
Elle was only nineteen, and thinking of killing herself despite the fact she was pregnant. But just as she changed her mind someone pushes her over the cliff's edge into water.
Monica is barely nineteen herself and in charge of eight eleven year old girls at Camp Horseshoe. The camp where Elle had been a counselor out as well before she went missing.
It all started as a prank amongst Camp Counselors As a prank and turned Into something more, something darker.
Find out what unfolds in You Will Pay,
Four out of five stars.
Happy Reading.

I’m getting older and my memory isn’t what it used to be. I’m finding it harder and harder to keep track of the characters in books. You Will Pay had so many characters that my head was often spinning with the effort to keep track of who was who and what their story was.

It starts twenty years ago at Camp Horseshoe. Before the summer is over there are four missing people – 2 teenage girls, 1 teenage boy and an escaped convict. How could four people disappear without a trace? Enter all the characters I had trouble keeping up with. In addition to the four missing people there are the numerous counselors and campers that were also there that summer. And each has their background story. It was too much and overwhelming for this reader.

Twenty years later with the discovery of human remains in a cavern at what used to be Camp Horseshoe, everyone is returning to town in the hopes that they’ll finally put this mystery to bed. Enter the same characters again with updates of where they are now. *sigh*

Told is alternating voices and time, I felt Ms. Jackson spent quite of bit of time repeating facts. She would state something one way and then again a bit later only varying the text a little. It was almost as if Ms. Jackson didn’t know what to write, so she filled space with restated facts. The pace was slow until approximately the 80% mark when I thought the story was going to take off. But in the end still left this reader feeling something was missing. While the pieces of the puzzle are put together nicely and I never guessed what happened, ultimately I was disappointed in this book. The mystery was good there at the end, but it felt buried under too many details.