Books by Series

Readers met Detective Noelle Marshall in the Columbia River series and asked for her story. Noelle works for the Deschutes County Sheriff’s office and her world is in the same setting as Mercy Kilpatrick. Fans will be excited to encounter familiar secondary characters like Mercy and Rowan Wolff in this new series.

In Echo Road Kendra Elliot and Melinda Leigh bring together two of their iconic characters FBI Special Mercy Kilpatrick and Sheriff Bree Taggert to stop a ruthless serial killer when Kilpatrick’s search for a missing teenager collides with Taggert’s investigation of two bodies discarded in suitcases on the side of a country road. 

The Columbia River Series brings together the best loved characters of Kendra Elliot’s books. This law enforcement series delves into criminal cases using forensics, colorful characters, and the vivid imagery of Oregon. By popular and persistent request, FBI Special Agent Zander Wells from Kendra’s Callahan & McLane series is the main character of THE LAST SISTER. Ava McLane and Mason Callahan return as the main characters in THE SILENCE. Mercy Kilpatrick and Truman Daly are the stars in IN THE PINES and AT THE RIVER.

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Set in the lush Pacific Northwest, this series has been enjoyed by thousands of readers since HIDDEN debuted in 2012. Each romantic suspense novel features murder and forensics weaved into a suspenseful mystery. Love the TV show Bones or CSI? Then these books are for you. Regular readers love to catch up with fascinating recurring characters while watching new relationships develop in each book.

“The author knows romance and suspense, reeling readers in instantaneously and wowing them with an extremely surprising finish.“ – RT Reviews

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Readers were thrilled when Kendra devoted an entire suspense series to Bone Secret regular Detective Mason Callahan. The steadfast and slightly redneck detective is evenly matched with FBI Special Agent Ava McLane. Murders, mystery, and Ava’s unbalanced twin sister keep the couple’s days from being dull. Their adventures continue in The Columbia River Series as secondary characters in THE LAST SISTER and as the main characters in THE SILENCE.

“Elliot’s best work to date. The author’s talent is evident in the character’s wit and smart dialogue…One wouldn’t necessarily think a psychological thriller and romance would mesh together well, but Elliot knows what she’s doing when she turns readers’ minds inside out and then softens the blow with an unforgettable love story.“ – RT Reviews

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Raised in a Central Oregon cabin built by her prepper father, Mercy Kilpatrick was forced out of her tight community after high school. She left without looking back. Today, murders in the prepper world have driven small town police chief Truman Daly to ask the FBI for help, and FBI Special Agent Mercy Kilpatrick returns to the tiny town of Eagles Nest to face the anti-government family she abandoned fifteen years ago. After readers begged for more Mercy Kilpatrick, Kendra continued their story in IN THE PINES and AT THE RIVER.

“Elliot is a master of romantic suspense, and her latest sets a rural community of preppers (people preparing for disaster) in the sights of a killer. Elliot expertly interweaves the current murders with the damage that past crimes have done to Mercy and Truman’s souls, and she lays out convincing tracks to a number of possible culprits in Eagle’s Nest. Fascinating details about prepper lifestyle give extra flavor to this mystery, adding to its memorability.” —Adrian Liang, Amazon Book Review

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Described as Justified meets Blue Bloods, Kendra Elliot and Melinda Leigh have created an endearing law enforcement family in small town rural Oregon full of suspense and deep relationships. Broken into three small sets, each novella is a complete story, but a secondary over-arcing mystery is completed within the set. Each author writes from the perspective of one of the Taylor sisters, Stevie and Carly. Readers have loved the sisters’ adventures as they fall in love, deal with small town gossips, protect their families, and make music.

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On the remote islands of the Pacific Northwest, chaotic tides keep dark secrets. FBI Special Agent Cate Wilde expects to get some rest when she returns to Widow’s Island. Instead, she and her childhood friend Tessa, now a local deputy, get drawn in to a series of murder investigations—each more savage than the last. Cate and Tessa try to focus on the tasks at hand, but the unsolved, decades-old disappearance of their friend Samantha looms like a dark squall. And when a missed detail in Samantha’s case surfaces, Cate and Tessa set out to find justice, once and for all.