"Feuerprobe für FBI-Agentin Mercy Kilpatrick:
Merciful Truth - Erkennet die Wahrheit ist der 2. Romantik-Thriller um die toughe und erfahrene Prepperin Mercy Kilpatrick und Polizeichef Truman Daly.
Ihre Kindheit bei einer Prepper-Familie im ländlichen Oregon hat Mercy Kilpatrick auf jede Herausforderung vorbereitet - selbst auf den feindseligen Empfang bei ihrer Heimkehr. Aber die FBI-Agentin ist nicht die Einzige, die in Eagle's Nest für Unruhe sorgt: Eine ganze Reihe von Brandstiftungen endet schließlich tödlich, als zwei Sheriffs ermordet werden.
Mercy unterstützt Polizeichef Truman Daly bei der Suche nach dem Brandstifter, der zum Mörder geworden ist. Dabei stoßen sie auf eine regierungsfeindliche Miliz, die dem Verdächtigen möglicherweise Unterschlupf gewährt. Jetzt sind Mercy und Truman erst recht fest entschlossen, den Killer auszuräuchern. Doch dann bringen ihre Ermittlungen ein schockierendes Geheimnis ans Licht. Wird die Jagd auf einen Wahnsinnigen zu ihrer eigenen Feuerprobe?
Thriller meets Romance: eine echte Kämpferin mit geheimnisvoller Vergangenheit und ein Cop, der sie unbedingt beschützen will ...
Auch im 2. Band ihrer Thriller-Serie um Prepperin Mercy Kilpatrick begeistert Bestseller-Autorin Kendra Elliot mit spannenden Twists und einer Liebesgeschichte, die ihre ganz eigenen Tücken hat.
Wie sich Mercy und Truman bei der Jagd auf einen Serienkiller kennenlernen, erfährst du im ersten Romantik-Thriller der Reihe, Merciful Death - Erbarme dich ihrer."
"Überleben ist ihr oberstes Ziel - doch was, wenn die Bedrohung aus den eigenen Reihen kommt?
Der Romantik-Thriller Merciful Death - Erbarme dich ihrer ist der 1. Fall für die toughe FBI-Spezialagentin Mercy Kilpatrick, eine erfahrene Prepperin. Jetzt macht ein Serienkiller Jagd auf Überlebenskünstler in ihrer Heimatstadt ...
Mercy Kilpatrick, aufgewachsen in einer Prepper-Familie in Oregon, wurde seit ihrer frühen Kindheit auf jede Art von Katastrophe vorbereitet. Trotzdem zwang eine Familientragödie sie zur Flucht.
15 Jahre später wird die kampferprobte FBI-Agentin in ihre Heimatstadt geschickt, um bei der Aufklärung einer mysteriösen Mordserie zu helfen: Ein gnadenloser Killer hat es auf Überlebenskünstler abgesehen und stiehlt ihre Waffen. Das FBI befürchtet, dass der Mann einen Terror-Anschlag vorbereitet. Mercy dagegen sieht erschreckende Parallelen zu ihrer Vergangenheit.
Zusammen mit Polizeichef Truman Daly macht Mercy sich an die Ermittlungen und versucht dabei, ihrer Familie und ihren Geheimnissen aus dem Weg zu gehen. Doch das wird von Tag zu Tag schwieriger - vor allem, weil Truman etwas in Mercy sieht, das sie verzweifelt zu verbergen versucht ...
Spannende Fälle, Familiengeheimnisse und Romance - eine explosive Mischung die süchtig macht
Die amerikanische Bestseller-Autorin Kendra Elliot liefert mit dem ersten Thriller ihrer Mercy-Kilpatrick-Serie einen lupenreinen Pageturner. Reichlich Twists, eine langsam intensiver werdende Liebesgeschichte und Einblicke in die geheimnisvolle Welt der Prepper geben dem Thriller seine besondere Würze."
"When two cross-country cases collide, Bree Taggert and Mercy Kilpatrick join forces to catch a serial killer in an addictive novel of suspense by bestselling authors Melinda Leigh and Kendra Elliot.
During a vicious heat wave, a county maintenance worker stumbles upon two suspicious suitcases abandoned by the side of the road. Sheriff Bree Taggert responds to find two bodies stuffed inside the luggage. The press demands action. The community is on edge. Suddenly, Bree is at the center of a media firestorm.
In Oregon, a senator’s daughter goes missing. FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick agrees to keep the politically sensitive case on the down-low. When she finds a link between the disappearance and a double homicide three thousand miles away, Mercy takes the next plane out—and lands right in the middle of Bree’s double homicide investigation.
To save the missing girl, Bree and Mercy must work together to stop a killer who’s playing deadly games with the press and stirring up public rage. Hungry for notoriety, he dares Bree and Mercy to catch him before he kills again."
"A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.
The mystery of three missing teens and a traumatizing murder unearths decades of buried secrets in a shocking novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.
Twenty years ago, five teenage campers disappeared. Two eventually turned up, bound and left for dead on the Columbia River’s rocky shore. Only Devin Bonner miraculously survived, but with no memories of what happened in the Oregon forest.
After decades, the cold case generates heat for FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick and her husband, Police Chief Truman Daly. They’re investigating the murder of a true-crime podcaster found at the river’s edge in the same location, and with the exact same manner of death. With the discovery, Devin’s nightmares return. His only real friend is Ollie Smith, Truman’s orphaned ward, whose own search for the truth sucks Ollie into a mystery far greater and more dangerous than anyone imagined.
Following a trail of fresh blood and an escalating series of murders, Mercy and Truman must work fast to unlock whatever traumas are buried in Devin’s memories before the secrets of the past claim another victim."
"A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.
For a search and rescue expert, the buried remains of her past are a dangerous obsession in a twisting novel of suspense by a Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author.
Rowan Wolff was five years old when she, her brother, and their babysitter were kidnapped by a serial killer in the Pacific Northwest. The babysitter was murdered. Rowan was saved. Her brother was killed and buried in the forest, his remains never found. The convicted killer refuses to say where he buried the boy. Twenty-five years later, Rowan is committed to search and rescue with her faithful canine and is obsessed with finding her brother’s grave—and closure.
Detective Evan Bolton thrives on unraveling tough cases, but his latest is disturbing. There’s another serial killer hunting in Deschutes County, Oregon, and the crimes are identical to those committed by the sociopath languishing in prison. Each victim is linked to Rowan. When skeletal remains of several bodies are exhumed in the forest, Rowan’s connection becomes more entwined and impossible to ignore.
Rowan and Evan are determined to solve the case before someone else dies. And someone else will, as the truth about the past is unearthed."
"From bestselling author Kendra Elliot comes a riveting installment in the Widow’s Island Novella series about an ex–FBI agent’s race to save the man she loves from a trio of bank robbers.
When two men kidnap former FBI agent Cate Wilde’s fiancé, the boldness of the crime rattles the community. Desperate to find the man she loves, Cate joins forces with the FBI and the local sheriff’s department to launch an investigation and bring Dr. Henry Powers home.
Cate soon learns that a brotherhood of bank robbers abducted Henry in the hopes that he might be able to save their youngest brother, who had been shot during a robbery. But this man is beyond saving, which spells life-threatening danger for Henry.
While Henry plots his escape, Cate uses her investigative skills and experience to track down her fiancé. Can she get to him in time, or will Widow’s Island live up to its name?"
"A Wall Street Journal bestselling series.
Clues to a hidden treasure. Clues to a family secret. Both lead to murder in a twisting novel of suspense by Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot.
A national treasure hunt with a $2 million prize has driven obsessed fortune seekers to overrun the small town of Eagle’s Nest, Oregon. The hunt’s cryptic clues and the lure of wealth have exposed the desperate side of human greed: theft, fights, trespassing—and even the motive to kill. Police chief Truman Daly craves peace in his town but has a murder on his hands instead. Now the big prize isn’t the only thing hiding in the pines. So is a killer.
When a young boy walks into the local café and claims his mother and baby sister have been missing for weeks, FBI special agent Mercy Kilpatrick investigates and exposes a disturbing twist in his story. Deep family secrets and lies that started sixty years ago have burst into the present, bringing with them deadly consequences.
Mercy’s and Truman’s investigations lead down a path of murder, revenge, and buried secrets to uncover two intertwined mysteries as dark as an Oregon forest."
"From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot comes the story of a former FBI agent who tackles an unsolved kidnapping in the eighth installment of the Widow’s Island Novella series.
When former FBI agent Cate Wilde moves back to Widow’s Island, she envisions a simpler life than the one she had in law enforcement. But Cate’s past has a habit of catching up with her. When she receives a mysterious package containing a child’s mandible, she finds herself thrust back into action.
The mandible leads Cate to an unsolved case she worked seven years ago—the kidnapping of a three-year-old girl. At the time, Cate suspected the girl was kidnapped by her overprotective father. But after they both vanished, the case went cold.
At the urging of the girl’s mother, Cate dives back into the case and learns her prime suspect may still be a threat. Armed with new clues and a fresh perspective, Cate must confront the possibility that the kidnapper is poised to strike again. But can she save his new child from the same fate before it’s too late?"
"A Wall Street Journal bestseller.
A former FBI special agent must come out of retirement to solve a murder in the fifth novella in the Widow’s Island series from Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot.
Former FBI special agent Cate Wilde is a new bakery and bookstore owner—and retirement is now complete with a doctor boyfriend. Although she struggles with PTSD, the sweet life she’s living is a far cry from the gruesome work she left behind six months ago.
But when skeletal remains turn up on Widow’s Island—and the MO of the killer is too familiar to Cate—the dream comes to an abrupt end. What if the case she solved eight years ago isn’t as closed as she thought? Her hometown needs her, and despite her mental health and her boyfriend’s protests, she has no choice but to return to her dangerous past life.
Soon Cate is in a desperate race to stop a cold-blooded murderer from killing again, once and for all…only this time, she’ll have so much more to lose."
"A Wall Street Journal bestseller.
A dead conspiracy theorist. A mass murderer. Two cases collide for Callahan and McLane in a pulse-pounding thriller by Wall Street Journal and Amazon Charts bestselling author Kendra Elliot.
A man is savagely murdered outside Portland, and Detective Mason Callahan finds blood-spatter evidence that tells a troubling story. Files reveal the murder victim, Reuben Braswell, was a radical conspiracist. In his home, investigators find pages of diatribes against law enforcement as well as ties to Mason’s fiancée, FBI special agent Ava McLane. The victim was her informant—and had strong reasons to be paranoid.
To Ava, Braswell’s rants were those of a wearying and harmless man…until they collide with her investigation into the murders of police officers and finding the connection becomes urgent. Meanwhile, Braswell’s brother and Ava’s twin sister both disappear, and disturbing acts of sabotage target Ava’s personal life.
For Mason and Ava, the brutal crimes and escalating mysteries create a perfect storm for a terrorist conspiracy that becomes dangerously personal—one that has yet to claim its last victim."
"An Amazon Charts and Wall Street Journal bestseller.
Three sisters’ secrets collide in a shocking novel of suspense by the bestselling author of the Mercy Kilpatrick series.
Twenty years ago Emily Mills’s father was murdered, and she found his body hanging in the backyard. Her younger sister, Madison, claims she was asleep in her room. Her older sister, Tara, claims she was out with friends. The tragedy drove their mother to suicide and Tara to leave town forever. The killer was caught. The case closed.
Ever since, Emily and Madison have tried to forget what happened that night—until an eerily similar murder brings it all back. It also brings FBI special agent Zander Wells to the Oregon logging town. As eager as he is to solve the brutal double slaying, he is just as intrigued with the mystery of Emily’s and her sisters’ past.
When more blood is shed, Zander suspects there’s a secret buried in this town no one wants unearthed. Is it something Emily and Madison don’t know? Or aren’t telling? And Tara? Maybe Emily can’t bear to find her. Because when Tara disappeared, she took a secret of her own with her."
"A Wall Street Journal bestseller.
In the fourth Widow’s Island novella, the truth of a twenty-year disappearance will finally come to light.
When the town drunk ends up dead in a hit-and-run, FBI special agent Cate Wilde expects that solving the case will be cut and dried. But evidence quickly surfaces that the victim was involved with another crime. A crime that has gone cold for twenty years. A crime of personal importance to Cate.
Cate’s best friend, Samantha, went missing at fourteen, leaving behind nothing except a jacket and an island full of unanswered questions. Samantha’s disappearance has haunted Cate for more than half her life, and she might finally be able to find some closure.
But not everything is as it seems. As Cate unravels what happened on that fateful day, she’ll discover that the community of Widow’s Island is full of secrets. Betrayed by someone she thought she knew, Cate will need to piece together the truth…before someone else gets hurt."
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