Mercy Kilpatrick Books in Order
Part ofKendra Elliot Books in OrderSee all of Kendra Elliot’s Mercy Kilpatrick books in order, with summaries, series background on Eagle’s Nest preppers, crossover notes, and suggestions on where to start this FBI-meets-small-town thriller series.
Last updated: December 22, 2025
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Publication Order
6 books
A Merciful Promise
by Kendra Elliot
2019
Going undercover inside an isolated militia compound, Mercy Kilpatrick must blend in with armed extremists while Truman Daly investigates a string of execution-style murders outside. As a terrorist plot sharpens, Mercy finds herself cut off, exposed, and running out of time.
A Merciful Fate
by Kendra Elliot
2019
When a skeleton tied to a legendary armored-car heist is found near Mercy Kilpatrick’s secret survival cabin, old greed resurfaces in Eagle’s Nest. Mercy and Truman follow clues through buried caches and decades-old grudges while a ruthless killer hunts the missing millions.
A Merciful Silence
by Kendra Elliot
2018
A rainstorm uncovers the skeletal remains of five people—posed just like two slaughtered families from a case twenty years ago. With the supposed killer in prison, Mercy Kilpatrick and Truman Daly must decide whether a copycat is loose or the wrong man was locked away.
A Merciful Secret
by Kendra Elliot
2018
After a terrified girl flags her down on a rainy Oregon road, Mercy Kilpatrick finds the child’s grandmother dying from ritual knife wounds. When a second, similar murder surfaces, Mercy and Truman dig into a fanatical history that collides with Mercy’s own hidden life.
A Merciful Truth
by Kendra Elliot
2017
A rash of suspicious fires in Eagle’s Nest turns deadly when two deputies are murdered. Still on the outs with her prepper family, Mercy Kilpatrick teams with Truman Daly to trace the arsons to a dangerous antigovernment movement before the town ignites.
A Merciful Death
by Kendra Elliot
2017
FBI agent Mercy Kilpatrick, raised by doomsday preppers in rural Oregon, returns to estranged family and hometown when survivalists are murdered in their fortified homes. The killings mirror an old unsolved case, forcing Mercy and police chief Truman Daly to confront her past.
Series background & context
The Mercy Kilpatrick series asks what happens when a woman raised to distrust the government becomes part of it. Mercy grew up in a tight prepper community in central Oregon, learning to hunt, stockpile, and live off the grid under the watchful eye of her fiercely independent father. A family rupture forced her out as a teenager, and she remade herself as an FBI agent—exactly the sort of authority figure her old world despises.
When the first book opens, murders in the survivalist community pull Mercy back to Eagle’s Nest, the small town she once called home. Each investigation—from targeted killings of preppers to arsons, ritual-tinged stabbings, and militia plots—forces her to walk a fine line between the people she loves and the badge she wears. The series shows her trying to reconcile those two halves of her identity while hiding the fact that she still keeps a fully stocked mountain retreat and a bug-out bag ready to go.
A big part of the appeal is the relationship between Mercy and Truman Daly, the town’s police chief. He’s a straight-arrow cop who understands small-town politics and grief, and their romance grows slowly across the books as they learn each other’s secrets. By the later novels they’re not just partners in investigations but also in life, facing threats that range from buried crimes to large-scale domestic-terrorism schemes.
The setting is its own character: pine forests, remote cabins, and back roads where a prepper’s resourcefulness can mean the difference between life and death.
Elliot uses Mercy’s world to explore the full spectrum of prepping, from sensible self-reliance to dangerous extremism. Family loyalty, community distrust, and questions about how far you’ll go to protect your own run through every case. Readers who finish the core series can follow Mercy and Truman straight into the Columbia River novels In the Pines and At the River, as well as the crossover thriller Echo Road and the Noelle Marshall books, where they appear as key supporting characters.
If you’re drawn to crime stories with rugged settings, complicated families, and a heroine who can both profile a killer and fix a broken generator, Mercy Kilpatrick’s corner of Kendra Elliot’s universe is the place to start.
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