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By the Time You Read This

Raisa Susanto, Book 3

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By the Time You Read This

By: Brianna Labuskes
Narrated by: Caroline Hewitt
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The sinister puzzle of an FBI linguist’s past is far from finished in a gripping novel of twisted family ties, from USA Today bestselling author Brianna Labuskes.

FBI forensic linguist Raisa Susanto thinks she’s through with the past now that her psychopathic serial killer sister, Isabel, is locked away forever. Then Raisa receives a letter from Isabel. It’s just a single message: By the time you read this, I’ll be dead.

Soon after, Isabel is discovered dead in her cell, forcing Raisa back into her depraved orbit—one that includes a band of true-crime worshippers obsessed with Isabel, her killing spree, and those who survived it.

When a new victim is killed in the same manner that made Isabel notorious, Raisa and FBI forensic psychologist Callum Kilkenny aren’t just tasked with finding out who killed Isabel and why. They’re hunting for a protégé following in Isabel’s footsteps. Raisa must uncover the truth—whether or not she’s ready for it—before someone else dies.

©2025 by Brianna Labuskes. (P)2025 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Family Life Genre Fiction Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Murder

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“The novelistic equivalent of a full-body workout.”—Kirkus Reviews
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I liked this 3rd installment of the series, but not as much as the first two. I had a bit of trouble following some of the characters and how some of them fit the story. It sort of just felt like more of the same from the other books. I would still recommend reading (or listening).

A Good Listen

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Most recent in this series. Narrator is excellent. Only series I’ve read about an FBI Forensic Lawyer Linguist.

Great narrator

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I loved this thought processes behind this trilogy. Great ending. What makes a Psychopath? What if they were raised. not knowing their family, family history.

wow

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Excellent writing, storytelling and character development. I can’t wait until the next one!! Highly recommend this series.

Sold on this series

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I enjoyed the mystery and intrigue. glad to have a 3rd book and follow the Parker girls. I like the narration also

I like the mystery

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Like the previous two books in this series, and most books by this author, the storyline was never dull and always moved forward. character development was good with characters being well rounded. With this being another personal case, on two fronts, it was easy to see how Raisa wasn't able to think and process things clearly. This book did bring Raisa into territory where she was vulnerable at times. In the end when it all came together, Raisa has been changed, but with some new understanding and acceptance.

Until the End

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This is the third and final book of the Raisa Susanto trilogy.

If there’s something that I’ve learnt is that we always have a choice. We always have the opportunity to make a choice. It can lead us to where we wanted or expected or it can be completely different and unexpected.

If there’s something that I’ve learnt from the Parker sisters is that there is a huge battle between nurture versus nurture and that we can carry like Atlas, they weight of the world on our shoulders, but that is not going to determine who we are and who we choose to be every day.

There is a choice, Raisa made one. Delaney made one. Isabel made one too. And it does not matter if the same blood runs in your veins, you do not have to become someone else’s choices.
Being brilliant is a heavy burden, seeing things, having a completely different wiring…oh my it’s heavy.

But as Kilkenny would say: “You got your guy”, well that should be it.

Thank you Brianna Labuskes for giving me such a wonderful ride with this trilogy! The Parker sisters and Kilkenny will be with me always.

It’s so hard to let Raisa go!

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If you gave me a plot summary, I would probably say “ oh that’s clever”, but unfortunately the execution was awful. The first 20 pages or so are just pure summary and exposition, so it is damned from the jump. People really need to find ways to write novels that are stand-alones but also exist in a series. By the time it got to the actual plot, I was so thoroughly annoyed with how terrible the opening was, that it was really difficult to keep going. Also, if the protagonist is a linguist, there really ought to be zero usage errors and such throughout the text.

I wanted to like it

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