The Longest Silence (Shades of Death #4) by Debra Webb

Joanna Guthrie was free. She had been for eighteen years--or so she needed everyone to believe. What really happened during the longest fourteen days of her life, when she and two other women were held captive by a dangerous serial killer, wasn't something she could talk about. Not after what they had to do to survive.
 But when more women go missing in an eerily similar manner, Jo knows her prolonged silence will only seal their fates. She's finally ready to talk; she just needs someone to listen. FBI special agent Tony LeDoux can't deny he finds Jo compelling--he's just not sure he believes her story. But with the clock ticking, Jo will do anything to convince him, even if it means unearthing long-buried secrets that will land them squarely in the crosshairs of the killer...

Review: Thank you Debra Webb for the ARC of The Longest Silence that I read and reviewed.
The fourth book for the Shades of Death book was a great way to end the series. I loved Tony LaDoux story and Joanna Guthrie who was matched up with him in this book.
This book has so many twist and turns I could not put it down because I did not want to miss a second of what was going on with Tony and Joanna and their search for Tony's niece and what really happened to Joanna eighteen years ago. This was one of Webb's books that suck you in and does not leave go until the very end.
The Longest Silence gets five out of five stars. 

Vanishing Girls (Detective Josie Quinn #1) by Lisa Regan

She was close enough to see that the girl had written a word on the wall in bright, warm red blood. Not a word, actually. A name…
Everyone in the small American town of Denton is searching for Isabelle Coleman, a missing seventeen-year-old girl. All they’ve found so far is her phone and another girl they didn’t even know was missing.
Mute and completely unresponsive to the world around her, it’s clear this mysterious girl has been damaged beyond repair. All Detective Josie Quinn can get from her is a name: Ramona.
Currently suspended from the force for misconduct, Josie takes matters into her own hands as the name leads her to evidence linking the two girls. She knows the race is on to find Isabelle alive, and she fears there may be others… 
The trail leads Josie to another victim, a girl who escaped but whose case was labelled a hoax by authorities. To catch this monster, Josie must confront her own nightmares and follow her instinct to the darkest of places. But can she make it out alive?

Review: Thank you NetGalley for the copy of Vanishing Girls by Lisa Regan that I read and reviewed.
This is the first book in a new series that I thought was excellent. If it was anything like what any of the books that are going to be in the rest of the series Lisa Regan has has a hit on her hands.
Detective Josie Quinn the main character is a great lead for the series. She is spunky and is the full package for what I am looking for when I am reading a book with female detective lead. She was willing to do what she had to to get to the answers and she had did not care whose toes she stepped on to get her answers.
This book was an excellent read and I highly suggest it because it one of those books that keeps you on the edge of your seat until the very end.
Vanishing Girls gets five out of five stars.

A Merciful Secret (Mercy Kilpatrick #3) by Kendra Elliot

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?

Review: Thank you NetGalley for the ARC of A Merciful Secret by Kendra Elliot that I read and reviewed.

This was the third book in the Mercy Kilpartrick series and it starts with Mercy returning from her cabin and running across a child who needs help because her grandmother has been attacked in their home and it resembles the attack and death of a judge hundreds of miles away. Now it is up to Mercy and the FBI to figure out how these murders that seem to have no reason to be connect are.
This was another good book by Elliot and great addition to the Mercy Kilpatrick series that gets better with every book. As a reader you learn more about the Kilpatrick family dynamic and what is behind them and their prepper ways.
As for this story it was very intriguing and you had to keep guessing who the murder was and why they were after their victims. I am giving A Merciful Secret four out of five stars.

Pretty Girls Dancing by Kylie Brant

Years ago, in the town of Saxon Falls, young Kelsey Willard disappeared and was presumed dead. The tragedy left her family with a fractured life—a mother out to numb the pain, a father losing a battle with his own private demons, and a sister desperate for closure. But now another teenage girl has gone missing. It’s ripping open old wounds for the Willards, dragging them back into a painful past, and leaving them unprepared for where it will take them next.

Bureau of Criminal Investigation agent Mark Foster has stumbled on uncanny parallels in the lives of the two missing girls that could unlock clues to a serial killer’s identity. That means breaking down the walls of the Willards’ long-guarded secrets and getting to a truth that is darker than he bargained for. Now, to rescue one missing girl, he must first solve the riddles that disappeared with another: Kelsey Willard herself. Dead or alive, she is his last hope.

Review: Thank you NetGalley for the copy of Pretty Girls Dancing by Kylie Brant that I read and reviewed. All I can say about this book is WOW. It is one of those books that you don't want to put down because you are not sure where it is going to go and it is being told by so many people you just want to know what everyone has to say about their side of the story. I am usually not a big fan of books that are told by so many people but I really loved how Brant had so many people telling their side of this thriller it added so much to the story and it was like you knew so much more then you usually do.I really had no idea who the kidnapper was until the end and I loved that fact. Brant was brilliant with how she wrote this book and kept the reader on the edge until the very end. This is a great read and I highly recommend it.I am giving Pretty Girls Dancing five out of five stars!