My first Lisa Jackson novel, and I enjoyed it. This is a murder mystery set mainly at a church camp in Oregon. The story is narrated by various camp counselors who were at the camp twenty years ago. Two girls from the camp, a camp employee, and a prison escapee all disappear during the same week and the cases were never solved. Now the cold cases are reopened when a skull is found. Going back and forth between now and twenty years ago did not detract from the story but rather helped place the characters in both time spaces. Tension builds toward the end of the book as everything comes to a head and various secrets are unraveled. 3 1/2 stars rounding up to 4. An interesting read.

Thanks to Lisa Jackson and Kensington Books through NetGalley for an advance copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

At a religious summer cam the teen counselors are having fun with swimming horseback riding as well as hijinks when two girls go missing. The case is cold for two decades.
A off the grid local is out clamming in the area and discover a jawbone. The police track down all the former participants for an unwanted reunion to go over the details again. Only someone is happy to see them back so they can pay for perceived slights and real crimes.
The suspense builds and who the guilt party is turns on a very clever perceived injustice.
A very good read from a very good author. Guessing until the end. Read the story in two days.

So far, I seemed to have like this book more than some of the other reviewers.

This was very twisty and I thought the back and forth between present day and the past worked well. Our group of suspects is an interesting one, each hiding secrets that range from (in my opinion) rather minor, to secrets that can destroy lives. And as you read, you wonder just who might be willing to kill to protect those secrets.

Great Literature (cap absolutely intentional)? Nope. But a fun beach read? Absolutely.

Expect suspense, thrills, and a few sordid secrets!

Just have your popcorn ready!

After I got the book but before I started it, I saw a review on Goodreads saying that it was chick lit filled with soap opera cliches, which put me in a bad frame of mind starting it because I'm not interested in that sort of book. So I judged it a little harshly at first, especially the first two chapters, but I actually did get into it as I read along. The story goes back and forth between "then," which takes place at a Christian youth camp where several of the camp counselors disappeared, and "now," 20 years later, when part of a body is discovered. None of the counselors told the whole truth when the original disappearances happened, and now everyone is kind of covering their tracks because they all have secrets from the past that they don't want coming to light. A lot of the book felt over-dramatized; when certain "secrets" would finally be revealed and turn out to be not really a big deal, it felt like a big lead up to nothing. There was a lot of mixing and matching of romantic and sexual partners between the teenage counselors, but I found it hard to believe that so many of the ex-counselors were still so sexually attracted to their former crushes or partners 20 years later as adults that just the thought of the other person would have them making stupid decisions. Also, this book is FILLED with unwanted/unplanned pregnancies and miscarriages. It was disproportionate in a group of only 9 women. I did actually like the majority of the book and was really interested by the end. However, the ending itself felt like a letdown. A lot of things happened all at once, very quickly, and most of the big reveals kind of felt like, "THIS is what I waited the whole book for?"

I tried so hard to like this book but I just couldn't get into this story. I like a decent suspenseful book and this book didn't have any of the makings of a good suspense book. I flew thru this book trying to read it but unfortunately the book was a bit juvenile and boring.

3.5 Stars

It started with 19 teen counselors at Camp Horseshoe, owned and operated by Rev. Jeremiah Dalton and his second wife, Naomi. Two of the counselors go missing and are never seen again. One of the workers, Clint, also disappears. And to top it off, an escaped prisoner seen in the area also disappeared.

It is now 20 years later and a partial skull is found. Who does it belong to?

That's what Detective Lucas Dalton (son of Jeremiah) and his partner wants to know. It doesn't help that Lucas also worked at the camp that summer.

Now that they're re-opened the case, all parties have been summoned to return and give new statements.

Every single one of them had secrets ..and they lied ..to each other and to the police.

The book jumps from today to 20 years ago. Each of the remaining 17 counselors plus Lucas and his partner have a voice. Some of the secrets are exposed and some aren't until the very end. And the ending is explosive.

I have read a lot of Lisa Jackon's suspense. In my own opinion, this one held my interest, but just wasn't up to the top notch standards I've come to expect from this author. This one read as a soap opera. There were too many characters to keep track of, too many different stories. Even the romance wasn't much of anything. Will I read it again ... No. I will still recommend this one to die-hard Jackson fans and hope her next book is better.

Many thanks to the author / Kensington Books / Netgalley for the advanced digital copy of YOU WILL PAY. Opinions expressed here are unbiased and entirely my own.

This book focuses on the disappearance of 2 teen girls from a Christian summer camp 20 years ago. When the skeleton of one of the missing girls is found, 5 former counselors from the camp return to tell their story of what happened so many years ago. The trouble is they weren't entirely honest 20 years ago. Now some of them just want to tell the truth and let the chips fall where they may.

This wasn't my favorite book of Scottolines. It was a good read but just not as good as some others I have read. There was a mystery, but I pretty much guessed what happened before the end of the book. I would give this book 3 1/2 stars. Thank you to net galley for an advanced readers copy.

Thank you to Net Galley for an ARC of this title in exchange for an honest review. I like the author, and I was excited to get it. It wasn't her best, or maybe it was me. I expected more thriller and intrigue, but it was more "mean girls." I didn't like the characters...none of them, which meant I couldn't care about them. The story goes from 20 years ago, when something tragic happened at summer camp, and present...when a body is discovered. I might try to read it again at some point, but I stopped about halfway through this time.

A summer camp prank has deadly repercussions that carry far into the future. Sheriff’s detective Lucas Dalton is investigating the human remains found at what used to be a summer camp. Dalton’s preacher father ran the camp twenty years earlier when two teenage girls disappeared. It was thought the girls were taken by a dangerous man loose in the woods at the time. Now the seven former counselors have returned, one of them, Bernadette, is the woman Dalton has never been able to forget. But Dalton is going to to find himself up against a wall of silence, because the seven former counselors have sworn never to tell what happened that terrible night. But the terror is not over, and if the women will not divulge what happened, more people will die