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Sunday, March 17, 2019

A Merciful Silence by Kendra Elliot


The series can work as a series of stand-alones because each book contains a completed plot--nevertheless, I recommend beginning with the first book (A Merciful Death) to get the background on Mercy Kirkpatrick and the prepper philosophy that she can't quite escape.

After a torrential rain, the skeletal remains of five people are revealed.  An echo of the murders of two families twenty years previously calls into question whether the right person was arrested at the time.  The similarities are too apparent to dismiss.  Was the wrong man convicted all those years ago or is this a copycat?

Mercy must connect with the only person who survived the earlier murders--a young woman who, as a child, was left for dead and who can't remember the night her family was murdered.

Kendra Elliot has landed on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list multiple times and is the award-winning author of the Bone Secrets and Callahan & McLane series, as well as the Mercy Kilpatrick novels: A Merciful DeathA Merciful Truth, and A Merciful Secret. Kendra is a three-time winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award, an International Thriller Writers finalist, and an RT Award finalist. She has always been a voracious reader, cutting her teeth on classic female heroines such as Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, and Laura Ingalls. She was born, raised, and still lives in the rainy Pacific Northwest with her husband and three daughters, but she looks forward to the day she can live in flip-flops. Visit her at www.kendraelliot.com.

I continue to find this series suspenseful and engrossing, and I look forward to more.


Defund Libraries?  NO!

15 comments:

  1. I'll be tracking this author and series.

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    1. I've enjoyed this series--hope you like it if you read it!

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  2. I just started reading A Merciful Death! And I love that quote. :D

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    1. That quote fits a lot of readers, doesn't it? I hope you like this series, Lark. :)

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    2. I'm really liking it so far.

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  3. I love the quote too! And you know my feelings about library funding...

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    1. I have gotten distressed every time I've read about the cuts in library funding in Britain, but never really expected the possibility here. :(

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  4. I only just got the connection between the protagonist's name and the titles (as well as the continuity of the titles). Duh!

    I love the author's list of classic female heroines from her childhood. I read those same books and admired Nancy, Trixie and Laura too!


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    1. :) I love that list of her heroines, too. It really is amazing the impressions those three characters have had on generations of women readers!

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  5. I'll keep this series in mind since you've enjoyed reading them. :)

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    1. I like the characters, the plots, and the setting in this series. Waiting for another one!

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  6. Elliot is an author I do need to know more of!

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    1. This series is interesting on several levels. I haven't read any of Elliot's other books, but I'm enjoying the Mercy Kirkpatrick series.

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  7. Oooh, this series sounds intriguing. I've never heard of the author, but her books sound like ones I would like. Definitely adding the first book in this series (I never read series out of order, even if each installment is considered a standalone) on my Goodreads TBR list. Thanks for the rec!

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    1. :) The setting and the prepper mindset make the series an fresh take on mystery/crime fiction. :)

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