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.