Echo Road

by Kendra Elliot; Melinda Leigh

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Pub Date 2 Jul 2024 | Archive Date 6 Aug 2024

Montlake

General Fiction (Adult) | Romance

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Description

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.

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A Note From the Publisher

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, the Mercy Kilpatrick novels, and the Columbia River novels. She’s a three-time winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award, an International Thriller Writers Award finalist, and an RT Award finalist. She was born and raised in the rainy Pacific Northwest but now lives in flip-flops. Visit her at www.kendraelliot.com.

Melinda Leigh is the #1 Amazon Charts and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author of the She Can series, the Midnight Novels, the Scarlet Falls series, the Morgan Dane series, and the Bree Taggert series. Melinda is an International Thriller Award finalist for best first book. Her novels have garnered numerous other awards, including two RITA nominations. She holds a second-degree black belt in Kenpo karate and has taught women’s self-defense. Melinda lives in a messy house with her family and a small herd of rescue pets. For more information, visit www.melindaleigh.com.

Advance Praise

“Grisly, gripping, and riveting. Two brilliant law enforcement pros join forces to hunt a twisted serial killer. Elliot and Leigh have created a page-turning, edge-of-your-seat thriller that kept me up late. I recommend!” —Robert Dugoni, New York Times bestselling author of the Tracy Crosswhite series

“One ruthless serial killer plus one FBI agent plus one homicide detective equals a propulsive game of cat-and-mouse that kept me glued to the page and checking my locks. Echo Road maps the darkness of a human heart and the light of female friendship.” —Tess Gerritsen, bestselling author of The Spy Coast

“What do you get when you pair up two genre masters? A double-barrel blast of crime fiction awesomeness.” —Lee Goldberg, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“Elliot and Leigh bring their formidable talents to this addictive thriller, their voices blending seamlessly to create a provocative page-turner with heart. Suspense readers have won the lottery with this one!” —Jess Lourey, author of The Taken Ones

“Intense. Propulsive. Exhausting, but that good can’t-stop-reading kind of exhausting, the rooting-for-justice kind of exhaustion, the kick-ass-women-kicking-ass kind of exhaustion.” —Rachel Howzell Hall, New York Times bestselling author