Series: Bree Taggert # 4
Format: Kindle, 315 pages
Release Date: September 14, 2021
Publisher: Montlake
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Genre: Thrillers / Suspense
The discovery of human remains unearths another nightmare from Sheriff Bree Taggert’s past in a bone-chilling thriller by #1 Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh.
Twenty-seven years ago, Sheriff Bree Taggert’s father killed her mother, then himself. Now Bree and her younger brother, Adam, find human bones on the grounds of their abandoned family farm. The remains are those of a man and a woman, both murdered in the same horrible way.
When the investigation determines the murders occurred thirty years ago, Bree’s dead father becomes a suspect, forcing Bree to revisit the brutal night she’s spent most of her life trying to forget. The only other suspect is an unlikely squatter on the Taggert farm who claims to know secrets about Bree’s past. When he mysteriously disappears and Bree’s niece is kidnapped, the cold case heats up.
Bree has stoked the rage of a murderer who’ll do anything to keep his identity—and motives—a secret. To protect everyone she loves, Bree must confront a killer.
Right Behind Her is the fourth installment of author Melinda Leigh's Bree Taggart series. The book is set in the fictional town of Grey’s Hollow in Randolph County. There is a saying that even the deepest buried secrets can find their way to the surface; no matter how well a secret is hidden, it has the potential to be revealed eventually. For Sheriff Bree Taggart, who has only been sheriff for a few months after she returned home to investigate her sister's murder, she's still digging out the mess from the previous sheriff, and now it seems that she may have to revisit a past she's tried hard to bury.
For the first time in 27 years, Bree and her younger brother Adam, who is an artist, are visiting their abandoned family farm that Adam recently purchased. A home that Bree had refused to visit because of all the bad memories. Unlike Adam, she remembers everything from that awful day she lost both of her parents. They find an intruder hiding in the barn who attacks Bree and is ultimately arrested. Then, with the help of Matt Flynn and his K-9 Greta, they find old bones on the property belonging to a man and woman who were murdered in a gruesome way thirty years ago, perhaps by her father.
Bree, Matt, and Deputy Chief Todd Harvey must dig up 30 years of secrets and history to find out who the dead are and who was responsible, even if it means looking into her own family's tragic history. When the horse Bree rides on in a parade is shot by paintballs, it's a message. When Bree’s niece is kidnapped soon thereafter, it appears Bree has stoked the rage of a murderer who’ll do anything to keep his identity—and motives—a secret. To protect everyone she loves, Bree must confront a killer, and protect her family.
It is fair to say that everything that happened 27 years ago formed who Bree has become as a person and as a law enforcement officer. And, even though she's been reluctant to open herself up to anyone romantically, that ice in her heart has thawed thanks to Matt and his beautiful dogs like Greta, who have taught Bree to trust again and to love. Her relationship with her sister's kids, Luke and Kayla, is also coming along now that they know that Bree isn't going to abandon them like Bree was abandoned as an 8-year-old. While this series is just getting started, so is the trouble ahead for Bree, thanks to the people in her department, which I foresee coming to a head quickly.
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