Lisa Jackson is a successful American author, best known for her romance novels which span various genres including category romance, romantic suspense, and historical romance. Her stories are set in various locations throughout the United States, with a frequent focus on serial killers, a topic that she finds particularly engaging. Jackson has gained a significant amount of recognition for her New Orleans series, which features Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya, as well as her Montana series, which features Regan Pescoli and Selena Alvarez.
Born in Molalla, Oregon in 1952, Lisa Jackson began her writing career after being inspired by her sister, Nancy Bush. Prior to achieving bestseller status, Jackson struggled to make ends meet while pursuing her passion for writing. She and her sister initially collaborated on a joint project that was eventually published. However, it was soon apparent that Lisa's strength lay in writing suspense thrillers, while Nancy was more inclined towards romance-infused suspense.
With over ninety-five novels to her name, Lisa Jackson has established herself as a formidable force in the literary world. Her work includes the Rick Bentz and Reuben Montoya series, the Pescoli and Alvarez series, the Savannah series, and numerous standalone novels. In addition to her individual works, Jackson has also collaborated with her sister, Nancy Bush, on several projects, including the Colony series, One Last Breath, and Last Girl Standing. Together, they have written Sinister and Ominous with Rosalind Noonan. With over thirty million copies of her novels in print, Lisa Jackson's writing has been translated into twenty languages.
Before achieving success as a bestselling author, Jackson was a mother striving to provide for her family by writing novels, hoping that someone would eventually pay her for them. Today, she is a prominent figure on The New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists. Jackson's novels are known for their ability to take readers to the brink of insanity and back, featuring dangerous secrets, deadly passions, and intricate puzzles of relationships, actions, clues, lies, and personal histories that haunt her protagonists. Through her writing, she explores the harsh reality that terror and madness affect countless lives and families in the real world.