Buried Bones by Melinda Leigh [Review]

Buried Bones (Widow's Island #7) by Melinda Leigh
Format: ebook
Source: borrowed through Kindle Unlimited
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Date read: October 19, 2021

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

Melinda Leigh
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Synopsis (Goodreads):

All communities have their secrets…but on Widow’s Island, there’s a skeleton in every closet, as Deputy Tessa Black knows all too well. When Tessa stumbles upon a half-buried body in the woods, a peaceful morning hike suddenly turns into a race to catch a killer.

Tessa identifies the skeletal corpse as Aurora Franklin, a young college student and aspiring actor. She’d come to Widow’s Island for a summer job, only to be strangled and discarded. Aurora has been dead for over a month—and not a single islander has reported her missing.

The investigation reveals a dangerous predator hiding in the Widow’s Island community. With her fiancé, park ranger Logan Wilde, by her side, Tessa must find Aurora’s murderer before they strike again.

Thoughts on Buried Bones: We're back on Widow's Island and, well, Tessa has stumbled over (not literally) a dead body. Working with Logan and the others on the WI small police force, she has to figure out who the body belongs to and how it was someone wasn't reported when they went missing.

Actually, figuring out the identity of the body was easy enough (hello, medical alert bracelets!), but tracing her last days and how she died with no one realizing what had happened to her is a little more problematic. I'm just going to point out that people on Widow's Island aren't always the most talkative. Except when they're gossiping, I guess. Let's just say that sometimes people come to the island because they have things to hide and leave it at that.

A dead body, a home life that's starting to level out for Tessa (thanks in big part to Logan), secrets, betrayal, and danger. *thumbs up*