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Loading... A Merciful Death (Mercy Kilpatrick) (original 2017; edition 2017)by Kendra Elliot (Author)
Work InformationA Merciful Death by Kendra Elliot (2017)
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I did finish this but it is SLOW moving....too slow for me. There is virtually no romance going on. Truman is interested in her and she responds to the interest at the end of the book. The last 20% was what I was hoping for much sooner regarding the murders. I think I'll move on from this series for now. I don't understand how this book was rated so high. Ugh was how I felt after reading it. Two examples below but most of the story went this way. Mercy, the lead character, acted more like a batty housewife than an FBI agent with 6 years of experience, who faced up to her father, left her home at 18 and paid her way through college. She kept her secret for 15 years but blabbed all of it after knowing a guy for a week. Truman, the town Sheriff, spent all of his time chasing the first woman that comes to town, ignores the law and choses the wrong path, though Mercy and her siblings actions 15 years earlier led to his uncle's death. Lastly, the author seemed to do zero research on preppers, though it was a central theme through out the book. no reviews | add a review
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FBI special agent Mercy Kilpatrick has been waiting her whole life for disaster to strike. A prepper since childhood, Mercy grew up living off the land - and off the grid - in rural Eagle's Nest, Oregon. Until a shocking tragedy tore her family apart and forced her to leave home. Now a predator known as the cave man is targeting the survivalists in her hometown, murdering them in their homes, stealing huge numbers of weapons, and creating federal suspicion of a possible domestic terrorism event. But the crime scene details are eerily familiar to an unsolved mystery from Mercy's past.Sent by the FBI to assist local law enforcement, Mercy returns to Eagle's Nest to face the family who shunned her while maintaining the facade of a law-abiding citizen. There, she meets police chief Truman Daly, whose uncle was the cave man's latest victim. He sees the survivalist side of her that she desperately tries to hide, but if she lets him get close enough to learn her secret, she might not survive the fallout. No library descriptions found. |
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A Merciful Death is a good beginning to the Mercy Kilpatrick series, introducing many characters and the town of Eagle's Nest. It also introduces the world of preppers, with lots of interesting information and an intriguing mystery. However, the writing doesn't evoke much emotion, and it is difficult to connect with the characters or their romance. There are also parts of the narrative that are very slow and even the parts of the novel that are meant to be suspenseful don't really offer that much suspense. Overall, A Merciful Death succeeds as the introduction to a new series but that is where interest ends. ( )