Mercy in the Blood: Book Three (Deadman’s Daughter 3)

Jessa Monroe was the good girl. The quiet one. The girl who kept her head down while her father—“The Carpenter”—was quietly tried and buried in local legend as the most brutal killer the county had ever known.

But even monsters need apprentices.

Years later, Jessa is living off the grid in a forgotten stretch of Oregon when a documentary crew rolls into town. Their subject? Her father’s crimes—and the whispered theory that he didn’t act alone. One of them, Micah Quinn, is charming, relentless… and disturbingly obsessed with the idea that Jessa holds the missing key.

He might be right.

As Micah seduces his way deeper into Jessa’s life, old dreams return—this time with terrifying clarity. She sees woods, buried bones, the glint of a hammer. The dreams lead to real locations. Real remains. Micah is convinced she helped her father hide victims. Jessa isn’t sure she didn’t.

Each clue chips away at her fragile sense of reality. Handwriting she can’t remember writing. Places she’s been but doesn’t recall. People who flinch when they see her—like they’re seeing a ghost.

But Jessa is no one’s pawn. She’s survived this long for a reason. And when another body is uncovered—with evidence linking her to the scene—Jessa knows the only way to get the truth is to walk willingly into the nightmare she’s spent a lifetime outrunning.

Micah says he wants the truth. But is he willing to destroy her to get it?

In Mercy in the Blood, the third installment of the Deadman’s Daughter series, Trudy Myrland plunges readers into a chilling descent through fractured memory, inherited violence, and a love affair that cuts deeper than any blade. Perfect for fans of Sharp Objects, Behind Her Eyes, and true crime with bite, this is a story where nothing—and no one—is innocent.