Review: ‘Alone’ by Kendra Elliot
Alone
by Kendra ElliotSeries: Bone Secrets #4
Published by Montlake Romance on January 7, 2014
SubGenres: Romantic Suspense
Format: eBook
Pages: 345
Narrator: Tanya Eby
Length: 9 Hours And 40 Minutes
Source: Kindle Unlimited
Audience: 18+/Adult
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One rainy night in the woods outside of Portland, Dr. Victoria Peres is called to the site of a haunting crime scene. Six beautiful young girls—all in white dresses and arranged in a perfect circle—have been left for dead. Only one girl, fighting for her life at a nearby hospital, has survived the carnage. Things get stranger still when Victoria and the police discover that the disturbing arrangement of the bodies—as meticulous as it is mysterious—is straight from the pages of a decades-old cold case. Victoria is called on to do what she does best, read the bones of the dead for clues…while dealing with the surprise return of her first love, medical examiner Seth Rutledge. Only this time she must figure out how the two cases, fifty years apart, are connected.
I can tell Kendra watches a lot of documentaries and does a lot of research for her books, which is why I adore this author, even if I may have nightmares at times after reading her books. I swear, each book I read by Kendra Elliot gets darker and grittier with the cases that she makes her characters investigate. This was the case with Alone, which is the fourth book in Kendra Elliot’s Bone Secret series. I’ve had this book on my TBR since it was first released and I’m making time to finish this series finally, thanks to a reading challenge I’m participating in this year.
The FMC, Victoria Peres, who is a Forensic Athrologist, ends up at a crime scene in the woods where she’s investigating six young women who have been placed intricately in a circle wearing white dresses, and one of them has managed to survive the carnage and is sent to the hospital. It’s up to her to help the police and discover who did this, but while she’s investigating, she finds out that this case may be similar to a case from fifty years ago, and now she’s determined to find out if the two cases are connected somehow. In the meantime, though, her past collides with her present when her first love, Seth Rutledge, ends up working with her on the case. She never expects to see him again, especially after he broke her heart years ago, but Seth is determined to prove to her that he’s always loved her, and he’ll do anything to prove it to her.
Victoria is one character that everyone called Ice Queen because of her demeanor, but after reading her POV, I definitely understood why she was closed off from others. She took her job very seriously, and she didn’t want to get hurt again. I felt sympathetic toward her after what happened between her and Seth Rutledge years ago. Kendra gave readers glimpses into the past between the two and what happened, and I definitely would have sided with Victoria. She had every right to guard her heart with him when he came back into her life.
There was quite a bit of drama between the characters in this book, not only due to what happened in the past but what they were still dealing with currently in previous relationships. I was more interested in the case that Victoria was having to investigate more than the romantic relationship between her and Seth. I wanted to know who was behind the murders of the girls and why a fifty-year-old case was similar to it. Kendra does give her readers glimpses into the possible killer in her books, and I was ready to figure out who it was so they were brought to justice.
Overall, this book gets four stars, and I can’t wait to read the last book in the series. I may not have been fully invested in the romantic plot, but I was fully invested in the mystery aspect of it, even though it was a twisted and disturbing case.
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About Kendra Elliot
An Amazon #1 selling author, Kendra Elliot has sold over 8 Million books and been on the WSJ best seller list eleven times.
She grew up in the lush Pacific Northwest and still lives there with her family and three cats. She's fascinated with forensics, refuses to eat anything green, and dreams of living every day in flip flops.
*New series!* THE LAST SISTER and THE SILENCE
The BONE SECRETS NOVELS: HIDDEN, CHILLED, BURIED, ALONE, KNOWN and VEILED (a novella).
The CALLAHAN & McLANE novels are a spin-off of the Bone Secrets books. VANISHED, BRIDGED, SPIRALED, and TARGETED.
The MERCY KILPATRICK series, a spin-off of the CALLAHAN & McLANE series, A MERCIFUL DEATH, A MERCIFUL TRUTH, A MERCIFUL SECRET, A MERCIFUL SILENCE, A MERCIFUL FATE, and A MERCIFUL PROMISE.
She also writes the Widow's Island and Rogue River novellas with Melinda Leigh.
2014 International Thriller Writers finalist, a three time Daphne Du Maurier winner, and a Romantic Times Reviewers Choice finalist.
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