Bred in the Bone by Kendra Elliot [Review]

Bred in the Bone (Widow's Island #4) by Kendra Elliot
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: November 9, 2019

Widow's Island
1. Close to the Bone
2. A Bone to Pick
3. Whisper of Bones
4. Bred in the Bone - Kindle
5. Below the Bones
6. A Broken Bone
7. Buried Bones
8. The Lost Bones
9. Bone Deep
10. The Wrong Bones

Kendra Elliot
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

In the fourth Widow’s Island novella by Wall Street Journal bestselling author Kendra Elliot, the truth of a twenty-year disappearance will finally come to light.

When the town drunk ends up dead in a hit-and-run, FBI special agent Cate Wilde expects that solving the case will be cut and dried. But evidence quickly surfaces that the victim was involved with another crime. A crime that has gone cold for twenty years. A crime of personal importance to Cate.

Cate’s best friend, Samantha, went missing at fourteen, leaving behind nothing except a jacket and an island full of unanswered questions. Samantha’s disappearance has haunted Cate for more than half her life, and she might finally be able to find some closure.

But not everything is as it seems. As Cate unravels what happened on that fateful day, she’ll discover that the community of Widow’s Island is full of secrets. Betrayed by someone she thought she knew, Cate will need to piece together the truth…before someone else gets hurt.

Thoughts on Bred in the Bone: Another murder on the island (I'm starting to think this is NOT the best place to visit given the number of people who end up dead here), but this murder helps Cate and Tessa (and the entire island) finally find come closure to Sam's twenty-year-old disappearance.

But it's not as easy as that. Naturally.

Secrets have a way of bubbling up and when Cate finds out that there WERE people who knew more than they told when Sam went missing, it throws her. (And here's where I feel like I shouldn't say much more BECAUSE SECRETS!)

That said, we get a solid ending to Cate and Tessa's investigation into Sam's disappearance and Cate makes a decision about her future. For the record, I like her plans. They work for both her and Henry and the island in general.