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    Close to the Bone
    Close to the Bone
    Close to the Bone
    Audiobook2 hours

    Close to the Bone

    Written by Kendra Elliot

    Narrated by Christine Williams

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    About this audiobook

    An Amazon Charts bestseller.

    From Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot comes the first novella in the thrilling Widow’s Island series.

    FBI Special Agent Cate Wilde is back home on a remote Pacific Northwest island when she gets the call: a teenager’s skeletal remains have been found on a nearby island.

    Together with Tessa Black, a childhood friend turned local deputy, Cate confronts dreary weather and bleak leads to make sense of the death. The complications pile up as Cate is distracted by the coroner on the case—and by nagging memories that draw her twenty years into the past. The remains suggest eerie similarities between this victim, and Cate and Tessa’s friend Samantha, who disappeared when she was fourteen.

    Cate finds herself up against closemouthed locals, buried town secrets, and even her own heart. As the case unravels, will she be able to cut through the fog and find justice for the missing and the dead?

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 23, 2018
    ISBN9781721336197
    Close to the Bone
    Author

    Kendra Elliot

    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, as well as the Mercy Kilpatrick novels. Kendra is a three-time winner of the Daphne du Maurier Award, an International Thriller Writers Award finalist, and an RT Award finalist. She has always been a voracious reader, cutting her teeth on classic female heroines such as Nancy Drew, Trixie Belden, and Laura Ingalls. She was born, raised, and still lives in the rainy Pacific Northwest with her family, but she looks forward to the day she can live in flip-flops. Visit her at www.kendraelliot.com.

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    • 4/5
      It was an extremely fast listen. It didn’t have a whole lot of the meat and grit of police work/FBI work. That is why it was so short, it more oh the ‘killer’ has come out to play. Here is the murderer. Which made the story so fast-paced near the end. You literally had no clue what was going on, why it was going on until everything came to a head.

      I really enjoyed how Cate is damaged, both physically and mentally. She not superwoman but an ordinary woman with her own past, her own issues. Her relationship with Tessa was so great. It was great to see two very strong independent women, fighting for the truth.

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    • 2/5
      This landed flat for me. I think there wasn't strong character building. I understand that you don't want to give away who the bad guy is. However, if when the bad guy is revealed ( it shouldn't be like who is that person). I literally stopped and had to think a long while to connect who the heck the person is. This just didn't hit the mark for me.

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    • 4/5
      Not bad for a novella. I'm not fond of short stories, preferring the longer and more complex novels. Just enough mystery to keep me reading (well, listening in this case). I'm hoping the characters introduced in "Close to the Bone" will reappear in other stories by Kendra Elliot. It helped me visualize the setting(s) because of having had a sister-in-law and her family live in Friday Harbour on San Juan Island. I simply needed to recall the feeling of being on the island to get into this story. The pacing was good as well.
    • 4/5
      I really enjoyed this book. A defense lawyer friend of Brady's is suffering from depression after defending and getting an acquital for a child molester and a drug driver. The friend disappears leaving Brady to worry if it was one of his mafia clients or a victim of one of his clients.