Her Last Word by Mary Burton

Title: Her Last Word

Author: Mary Burton

Published: May 8, 2018

Publisher: Montlake Romance

Pages: 360

Genre: Murder/Suspense

Review: ebook

Buy Links: Amazon, Amazon.uk 

Fourteen years ago, Kaitlin Roe was the lone witness to the abduction of her cousin Gina. She still remembers that lonely Virginia road. She can still see the masked stranger and hear Gina’s screams. And she still suffers the guilt of running away in fear and resents being interrogated as a suspect in the immediate aftermath. Now Kaitlin has only one way to assuage the pain and nightmares—by interviewing everyone associated with the unsolved crime for a podcast that could finally bring closure to a case gone cold.
But when a woman Kaitlin questions is later found stabbed to death, she fears that she’s drawn a killer out of hiding. It’s Detective John Adler’s fear that the murders have only just begun. Now his job is to keep Kaitlin safe.

As a bond between Kaitlin and Adler builds, the past closes in just as fast—and it’s darker than Kaitlin remembers. Soon, her wish will come true. She’s going to find out exactly what happened to Gina. Someone has been dying to tell her.

When I saw that I could read this with prime reading I knew I wanted to check it out as it sounded right up my alley of books. I don't believe I have read this author's books before but I have heard of her. I was pretty impressed with this. So Kaitlin is riddled with guilt over what happened fourteen years ago. Her cousin Gina was murdered and yet she ran away. Now she comes back to the town where she knows she is not welcomed to get answers on what happened that night. Just by chance someone has to remember right? What she doesn't expect to uncover more along with the killer being someone she wouldn't have expected. All this while getting feelings for the detective that is on the case.

Overall I liked the pace of the story and how there wasn't really a dull moment. I did enjoy how we went between the past and present of what went on that night to what was being done now to solve the murder. As far as the sex scene between Kaitlin and Adler I felt it was rushed because it was towards the end of the book.

My favorite quote: 

"My daddy used to say fear and self-pity don't mend broken hears. He said anger does because it motivates us to do the impossible."

 

Mary Burton loves writing suspense, researching law enforcement and forensic procedures, morning walks, baking, books, and tiny dachshunds. She also enjoys hunting down serial killers, which she does in her and USA Today bestselling novels of suspense and romance. Library Journal has compared her work to that of Lisa Jackson and Lisa Gardner, and Fresh Fiction likened her writing to that of James Patterson.
Mary is routinely featured among the top twenty writers in Amazon’s Author Rankings for romantic suspense, and her recent novel The Last Move claimed the number ten fiction slot in the Kindle eBooks Store.
Research is a favorite part of Mary’s day. She never tires of learning more about police work, evidence collection and analysis. She’s known for taking a hands-on approach, whether it means interviews with professionals in the field, forensic seminars or lessons at the firing range.

A Richmond native, Mary has lived there for most of her life. She is a graduate of Virginia’s Hollins University and worked in marketing before she began writing full time. Her first book was published in 2000 and she’s now the author of thirty-four published novels, five novellas and four works of contemporary women’s fiction written as Mary Ellen Taylor.

A member of International Thriller Writers, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, Novelists, Inc., and Romance Writers of America, Mary is known for creating multiple suspense stories connected by characters, such as her recent The Forgotten Files novels. Her new book, Her Last Word, and The Last Move, break that mold.

When not traveling for research or visiting with readers at bookstores, book festivals and conferences, Mary remains very much a homebody. She and her husband spend time alternately enjoying and lamenting their empty nest and spoiling their four-legged babies Buddy, Bella and Tiki.