Let's say good morning to the author of a new thriller called Still See You Everywhere. Good morning, Lisa Gardner, Good morning Amy. Thank you for having me on the show. Well, I'm super excited to talk to you, because when we got word that you were available, I said, oh, well, I want to read the book before I talked to her.
And I'll tell you that I sat down to start reading it and thought, I don't know if I'm going to get through the whole thing, but I'll at least have a good, solid back, you know, foundation for it. I read the whole book in six hours. Obviously a page that's what I love to hear. Yeah, thank you, Yeah, and I'd go, oh, well, I'll put it down and I'll go do this. I'm like, oh no, just one more chapter, just one more chapter,
so exactly. And I think, Lisa, the book like hooks you right from the prologue where you hear about the main or a central character's horrific life of abuse and then how it turns into murders. So give us a little something to introduce us to the world of Still I'll See You Everywhere. So Still See You Everywhere features Frankie Elkin, who is an expert on working missing persons cold cases, so she does it totally on her own. She has no special background, no training, but this is a weird case.
She gets summoned to death row, where a convicted female serial killer wants her to find her baby sister, who was presumably kidnapped fifteen years ago. But she just got a note claiming the girl's still alive. And Frankie's not worked for serial killer before, let alone one who is so clearly unrepentant. Like you said, Kaylene Pearson, grew up in a world where you either predator
or prey. She's pretty happy to be the predator. Yeah, And like I said, it kind of it hooks you from the beginning because you get interested in Frankie in her life as she starts to look for this baby's sister and of course the murderous who is an unrepented killer or unrepentant killer, And it leads us to a tropical paradise on an island, an atoll not far from the main Hawaiian islands. But there are dangerous and sinister things lurking on
the island too. Yes, I had the opportunity a couple of years ago to go to the Palmyra Atoll, which you fly to Honolulu and it's another three hours by plane, so you're way off the grid. You know. Medical evac is like three to five days away to that would take a ship. And when you land there one it's paradise. It's palm trees and beautiful sandy beaches with no one on them because it's nothing but a twelve person research
station. And there's crabs and coconut crabs, which are terrifying, and twelve really they're strangers, they're experts that are subbing in and out. And just my first thought, you know, a lifelong Agatha Christie reader, is this is the perfect locked room mystery. No one gets on, no one gets off, and one of these people has done something terrible. Okay, so then yeah, tell me, Lisa, you went to this atell just to check it out or did you already know you had an idea for your book
in mind? Actually I went there for personal reasons to learn about the reclamation of coral reefs, and they're doing amazing work for the record, and then just the psychology of it. I mean, you know you're going to be remote, but to be that remote like they preferred. If you don't have an appendix. You think it'll be beautiful, but it's also eighty five percent humidity all the time. The cheats are wet, the towels are wet.
The researchers who work there, their skin actually grows fungus oh that they have to treat. And you talk about that in the book too. Yeah, the discomfort starts to get to you. You start to see the edginess. I kind of was laughing at one point halfway through this. I'm like, this is like the shining As summer camp. Yeah, that's where we are and the perfect setting for a murder mystery suspense thriller. And this book is
all of that wrapped up into one. And tell me you mentioned coconut crabs and they play kind of a central part in the book, which is kind of weird. Like you said, you go on this atoll and there are these crabs everywhere, and some of them are coconut crabs, which are massively huge. They're not the cute little ones that scurry across the beach. No. I had a cute little one as my roommate, and I try to keep them safe every night because the coconut crabs will eat them. Yeah,
I didn't know anything about this. So the apple has no fresh water. So the entire basically animal kingdoms. Crabs and the coconut crabs are the apex predator. They are bigger than my dogs, oh my god, and a terrier and they come out at night and they're like the Sherman Tank of crabs. They're on a pathway. You do not go on that pathway. You find some other way to get to wherever you're going. And they're hunting the other crabs. And it's funny because I'm a thriller writer and I'll kill all
the people you want. But I'd come creeping back to my little cabin. Tell my little roommate crabby. It's like, don't go out too dangerous, just stay safe for the night. Yeah. Oh so yeah, And like I said, there were those weird little things that you don't know about, and little twists and turns and big twists and turns, and I will tell you I was surprised more than a few times reading the book. So it's called Still See You Everywhere, And where can we get it? I'm assuming
everywhere. It's available everywhere. Books are sold in the audio is available as well. A fabulous narrator, Hillary Hubo. Okay, Lisa Gardner, thank you so much for your time. If you haven't read it, if I highly recommend it. Like I said, I read the whole thing in six hours. Thanks so much, Lisa. Oh, thank you so much. Thank you. Amy all right