Format: Kindle, 336 pages
Release Date: January 16, 2018
Publisher: Montlake Romance
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Thrillers / Suspense
Raised off the grid by survivalists, Mercy Kilpatrick believed in no greater safeguard than the backwoods of Oregon. Unforgiven by her father for abandoning the fold for the FBI, Mercy still holds to her past convictions. They’re in her blood. They’re her secrets—as guarded as her private survival retreat hidden away in the foothills.
In a cabin near her hideaway, Mercy encounters a young girl whose grandmother is dying from multiple knife wounds. Hundreds of miles away, a body is discovered slashed to death in a similar way. The victims—a city judge and an old woman living in the woods—couldn’t be more different. With the help of police chief Truman Daly, Mercy must find the killer before the body count rises. Mercy knows that the past has an edge on her. So does her family. How can she keep her secrets now…when they’re the only things that can save her?
A Merciful Secret is the Third installment in author Kendra Elliot's Mercy Kilpatrick series. Key characters: Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick who was raised off the grid by her survivalist family, and Sheriff Truman Daly of Eagle's Nest. Guest starring Salome Sabin who is at the center of everything that happens in this story. Mercy has a hidden cabin in the woods and is a secret prepper. On the way back from a late night visit to her cabin she almost runs over a child desperately seeking help for her dying grandmother.
Morrigan Sabin claims her grandmother, Olivia Sabin, is in bad trouble, and Mercy needs to help her now! In a cabin near her hideaway she slowly built for herself, Mercy encounters Olivia Sabin dying from multiple knife wounds. Olivia's home is straight out of a horror movie with a secret stash of knives and all sorts of ingredients that a witch might collect if they were so inclined. Hundreds of miles away in Portland, Oregon, a body is discovered slashed to death in a similar way.
The victims—a city judge and an old woman living in the woods—couldn’t be more different. And yet the method of murder is eerily similar. Because the murder of a Judge is a federal crime, Special Agent Ava McLane takes point because Mercy is a witness to a crime. When Morrigan disappears with Salome, who Truman knew back in school, the mystery becomes a bit more twisted. Not one to be kept on the sidelines, Mercy and Truman Daly insert themselves into the investigation over the objections of the Deschutes Detective.
Even more curious is that an old friend from Mercy’s high school days somehow may be involved in this whole twisted affair. Thru the eyes of Salome, we learn that she has lots of enemies, including a father who would do anything to get revenge on her mother. The author adds a few flashbacks to a time when Salome was a teenager and knew both Truman and Judge Lake's son Christian. Mercy is also coming to terms with having her deceased brothers daughter, Kaylie living with her.
Apparently, since I skipped the second book! it has been 4 months since Mercy has moved back home, and it seems that almost everyone except her own father is coming to terms with her return. Mercy is a complex and conflicted character. How she made it into the FBI is amazing and would probably not have happened in reality. Like the Bree Taggart series, it seems the authors love to have multiple murder victims. Go ahead. Tell me I'm wrong. Since I accidentally skipped book # 2, I plan to go back and read it soon.
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