num_pages: 351
description: In this Wall Street Journal bestseller FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick must unlock the mystery of a mass murder and the secrets of its silent witness... For Mercy Kilpatrick returning to rural Oregon has meant coming to terms with her roots. Raised as a prepper Mercy is now relying on her survivalist instincts to defend her town from the people the law cant reach. But this time an investigation calling up a dark past for her and police chief Truman Daly may be hitting too close to home. A rainstorm has uncovered the remains of five peoplea reprise of the distinctive slaughter of two families twenty years ago. Except the convicted killer is in prison. Is this the case of a sick copycat or is the wrong man behind bars? One person might have the answer. The lone survivor of the decades-old crimes has returned to town still claiming that she cant remember a thing about the night she was left for dead. As the search for the truth becomes more dangerous Mercy fears that the traumatized woman may not have buried her memories at all. She might be keeping them a secret. And theres a price to be paid for revealing them.
language: English
title: A Merciful Silence
publisher: Montlake Romance