Friday, March 4, 2016

Friday Memes: Merciless by Lori Armstrong

Happy Friday everybody!
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This week I am spotlighting Merciless by Lori Armstrong. This is the third book in the Mercy Gunderson series and has been on my TBR stack since June 25, 2014. Here is the description from Amazon:
Torn between her duties to the FBI and her need to keep her loved ones safe, former black-ops army sniper I bMercy Gunderson must unleash the cold, dark, merciless killer inside her and become the predator . . . rather than the prey.

Newly minted agent Mercy Gunderson is back and ready for action— unfortunately, she’s stuck doing paperwork in an overheated government office building. But she gets more than she bargained for when she’s thrown into her first FBI murder case, working with the tribal police on the Eagle River Reservation, where the victim is the teenage niece of the recently elected tribal president. When another gruesome killing occurs during the early stages of the investigation, Mercy and fellow FBI agent Shay Turnbull are at odds about whether the crimes are connected.

Due to job confidentiality, Mercy can’t discuss her misgivings about the baffling cases with her boyfriend, Eagle River County sheriff Mason Dawson, and the couple’s home on the ranch descends into chaos when Dawson’s eleven-year-old son Lex is sent to live with them. While Mercy struggles to find a balance, hidden political agendas and old family vendettas turn ugly, masking motives and causing a rift among the tribal police, the tribal council, and the FBI. Soon, however, Mercy realizes that the deranged killer is still at large—and is playing a dangerous game with his sights set on Mercy as his next victim.
Beginning:
I blamed my unrealistic expectations of becoming an FBI special agent on The X-Files.

Granted, Mulder and Scully were fictional characters, but working in the FBI was nothing like portrayed on any TV shows. Disappointment made me want to crawl inside the TV and kick some ass.
Friday 56: 
And now after I've been in the tribal police headquarters? I see the same problem. To be perfectly blunt, the place is a disorganized pigsty, with who knows what files spread everywhere. So if there is a connection or a pattern to these deaths, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised if the tribal police didn't catch the similarities because they wouldn't know where the hell to find the information.

11 comments:

  1. Great opening! Sounds like a good series with lots of interesting characters.

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  2. I remember reading and liking this novel, but don't recall the plot in detail. Must reread sometime.

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  3. I like the beginning and 56, thanks for sharing! :-)

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  4. Great teases and I would check it out just by looking at the cover. :-) Enjoy the weekend.
    sherry @ fundinmental Friday Memes

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  5. Yes please! This sounds like my kind of book and I absolutely love the beginning! I'm adding it to my TBR!

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  6. This sounds familiar. I think I'm confusing it with another series though. I think I'd like the character.

    My 56 - http://fuonlyknew.com/2016/03/04/the-friday-56-96-forget-tomorrow/

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  7. I like that beginning and the book sounds ok too. I'm confused about why she's not able to share with her boyfriend since they're both in law enforcement.

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  8. LOL oh my. Sounds like a protagonist I would get a kick out of. :-)
    Happy weekend!

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  9. LOL on the beginning.

    Sounds fun.

    ENJOY your book and your reading.


    Elizabeth
    Silver's Reviews
    My Book Beginnings

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  10. I've been meaning to read this series! Happy weekend!

    Check out my Friday 56 (With Book Beginnings).

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