Nov 14, 2015 | Kendra Elliot, November 2015
Dead in Her Tracks by Kendra Elliot is full of small town zing, a murder, an a few surprises.
Zane Duncan is the police chief in Solitude, a sleepy small town where young women have been murdered and the suspect only recently apprehended. When you discover what happens to the guy in lock-up you won’t be able to put this novella down.
Is it possible that the second dead woman to show up in town is connected to the prior case? Is a flash drive the key to the two unsolved murders?
Stevie Taylor is also an officer working alongside her boyfriend, Zane. Both are trying to keep the citizens calm and alive. But, it’s hard to do when the unexpected keeps happening. What will happen when they get close to discovering the truth?
Another great novella in a must read series.
I received this ARC from the publisher for a fair and honest review.
Exclusive Excerpt – Dead in Her Tracks
“We’ve got a situation at Fletcher’s Bar!” Sheila hollered at Stevie in the police station.
Stevie looked up from the notes she’d been writing from her interview with Tony and Dana that morning. She glanced at the clock and realized she’d missed dinner. “Where’s Zane?” she shouted back.
“He’s right in the middle of it.”
“Shit.” Apparently she wasn’t the only one who’d missed dinner.
She grabbed her coat and strode toward the front door. “Who called?” she asked Sheila as she passed by her desk.
“Angie. She says there’s a few guys flinging insults, and Zane’s trying to cool things down. She says it’s going to erupt at any second.”
Stevie flew out the door. Angie knew how to size up drunken men. Ten years of waiting tables at Fletcher’s had given her a lifetime of experience.
Five minutes later Stevie pulled her car into the parking lot next to Zane’s and eyed the rifle clamped by her console. Not yet.
Her bulletproof vest felt heavy as she jogged to the door of the squatty old building. Too many times she’d responded to calls at Fletcher’s Bar. She never knew what to expect inside. One time she’d arrived and found everything had settled down and the men were slapping each other on the back like best friends. Another time she’d arrived and found two men on the floor with stab wounds.
She yanked open the door.
This was more like the second time. Zane had Amber Lynn’s stepfather, Tony Cooper, in a headlock, yelling at him to hold still. Two other men were holding the arms of a guy who seemed intent on beating Tony’s head in. Zane met her gaze. “Get him down!” He nodded toward the other guy.
Stevie stepped forward and opened her mouth to order the second guy to stop fighting, but he yelled at her first. “Out of the way, bitch!” He tried to fling himself at her but was held in place by his friends.
She planted a foot and kicked him in the groin, and he collapsed with a scream, barely stopped from hitting the concrete floor by the guys still holding his arms. They winced and looked away.
She grabbed one of his arms and twisted it behind his back and snapped on the cuffs. His friend politely held his other arm for her as she repeated the motion. She shoved him onto his chest on the floor.
Tony Cooper stopped thrashing in Zane’s headlock. “You gonna behave?” Zane asked.
Tony nodded, and Zane slowly released him.
Zane was breathing heavily, but she didn’t see any bruises or blood on him. Stevie swallowed hard, tamping down her own adrenaline, which had been pumping hard since Sheila yelled at her. She kept a professional distance from Zane, fighting her instinct to touch him. “What happened?” Stevie asked.
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Author Info:
Kendra Elliot won the 2015 and 2014 Daphne du Maurier Awards for Best Romantic Suspense. She was also an International Thriller Writers finalist for Best Paperback Original and a Romantic Times finalist for Best Romantic Suspense. Elliot shares her love of suspense through the many novels set in the Bone Secrets universe. She lives in the rainy Pacific Northwest with her husband, three daughters, and a Pomeranian, but she dreams of living every day in flip-flops. She loves to hear from readers through her website, www.KendraElliot.com.
