S19 Ep109: Echo Road w/ Kendra Elliot & Melinda Leigh
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🗓️ 10 September 2024
⏱️ 113 minutes
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Summary
On Today's TCT, we welcome in award winning authors, Kendra Elliot (Mercy Kilpatrick series) and Melinda Leigh (Bree Taggert Series) to talk about their latest amazing thriller that combines both characters into one story based on a real life case, Echo Road! Echo Road features a senator from Oregon who's daughter has gone missing.... feared that she has been kidnapped by one of his political enemies, the Senator calls for help from the FBI, and Mercy Kilpatrick answers the call! Meanwhile, all the way across the US, two women with dark hair and pink nail polish have been found dead, stuffed in suitcases and left on the side of a rural road.... Sheriff Bree Taggert is called in to investigate!
We talk to Kendra and Melinda today about the link that brings Mercy and Bree together on this case, as well as what made the two of them decide to undertake such a huge project together, the obstacles all four women face, the rewards of overcoming those obstacles, and much more on today's program!
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| 0:00.0 | And the Welcome into the best in True Crime Podcasting, this is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host |
| 0:26.3 | Tim Dennis. I'm very pleased to bring on these next two authors. Today I got the pleasure reading a very good book this weekend. |
| 0:35.3 | We're delving into the world of fiction yet this week and it's a book that I |
| 0:39.7 | requested from the publisher because it's a book that intrigued me it's two very popular |
| 0:47.1 | series that got melded into one and I had a great time reading it this weekend. |
| 0:53.0 | I want to tell you a little bit more about it and we'll delve into it with the authors today, |
| 0:56.5 | Kendra Elliot and Melinda Lee. |
| 0:59.2 | Echo Road is the name of the book. |
| 1:01.4 | And it takes two very popular series |
| 1:06.0 | and melds them into one. |
| 1:08.0 | It takes Mercy Kilpatrick and Bree Taggart |
| 1:12.0 | and takes both of them together to solve a case on two different coasts. |
| 1:18.0 | Very intriguing concept and it took a lot of juggling to bring these two characters together and bring it into a super case, so to speak. |
| 1:27.0 | So we're going to bring both authors on and we're going to talk about how you get two great |
| 1:35.1 | authors together, two great characters together, and manage to bring this whole |
| 1:40.3 | project together because it seems like a lot just to get all this |
| 1:43.2 | under one roof into one book and bring this huge project together. Kendra |
| 1:49.4 | Elliot has landed on the Wall Street Journal bestseller list multiple times and is the |
| 1:53.9 | award-winning author of the Bone Secrets and Callahan and McLean series, the Mercy |
| 1:58.4 | Kilpatrick novels, and the Columbia River novel. She's a three-time winner of the Daphne |
| 2:04.4 | de Marier Award an International Thriller Writers Award Finalist and an RT Award |
| 2:10.3 | Finalist. She was born and raised in the Rainy Pacific Northwest but now lives in |
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