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Overview: Kate Anslinger is the author of the McKenna Mystery novels, a series that follows Detective Grace McKenna on her spree of secretly solving crimes with the help of her gift to see clues in the eyes of criminals. In addition to her life as a novelist, Kate is a journalist, freelance writer and a veteran of the United States Air Force.
Her debut novel Saving Jason, touches upon the struggles of PTSD, a topic that is near and dear to her heart. Kate lives in a sleepy beach town North of Boston with her husband, two daughters, and Newfoundland pup.
Genre: Fiction > Mystery/Thriller > Paranormal Police Procedural
.5. Hidden Faces (2023)(Prequel Novella)
One look in a criminal’s eyes and she witnesses their crimes.
Grace McKenna is not your average police officer.
She is haunted by the unsettling images she sees when she locks eyes with a criminal, her vision flooded with clues that force her to solve cases on her own.
In the prequel of the series that has been described as riveting and unputdownable, Grace is new to the Bridgeton Police Department, tackling her earliest days on the force. Long before she became a detective and before she was privy to Bridgeton’s town secrets, Grace was adapting to life as a cop with a somewhat disturbing gift.
While working on a detail at a Halloween event, Grace is pulled into a maze of secrets that are revealed when she catches the gaze of a criminal wearing a Batman mask. As if it wasn’t hard enough to track down the menaces that roam the streets of Bridgeton, Grace has her work cut out for her in this rapid read that sets the stage for the cases in the rest of the series.
Hidden Faces, tells the story of Grace as she encounters her unlikeliest criminal of all time.
1. The Gift (2017)
Detective Grace McKenna’s mother has always told her that she has a gift. When she looks into a criminal’s eyes she can see haunting images of victims who have been wronged.
One of those visions is the face of Jenny Silva, high school art teacher who has gone missing from the small town of Bridgeton, Massachusetts, where Grace works.
When she makes eye contact with the possible suspect, Jenny’s tortured face flashes before Grace, leaving an unsettling imprint on her. Grace finds herself making tough decisions to solve a case on her own, where she stumbles across town secrets and gets mixed up in an unlikely love affair.
Sometimes a wrong can find a way to be righted all on its own.
2. Buried Secrets (2019)
A tortured woman, a drowning man, a frightened child.
Being a small town police officer, she is forced to solve these cryptic cases on her own, maintaining secrecy while using her detective skills to obtain clues along the way.
In Buried Secrets, Grace welcomes you back into her world as she tries to piece together another crime in Bridgeton, Massachusetts.
When Grace responds to a routine call, she meets Miriam Caverly, an older woman with a past that is less than mundane.
Alongside her boyfriend and ex-cop, Mark Connolly, Grace is thrown into a tangle of town secrets that force her to step outside the town’s boundaries for answers that she is scared to face.
A town drunk with a bitter past, a well-intentioned family strapped with the burden of a tragedy, and a lineup of memorable characters, make Buried Secrets an intense page-turner that follows The Gift in a perfectly aligned chain of events.
3. Never Tell (2020)
In book three of the McKenna Mystery Series, Grace finds herself face to face with a school principal holding onto a haunting past.
When Grace makes eye contact with Principal Jack Whittaker on a routine visit to an elementary school, she is confronted with visions of a disturbed woman who is struggling to convey a message.
In Never Tell, flashes of a heavily made-up face, a red rope that seems to lead to nowhere, and a rainy night in a familiar field, take Grace to places outside of Bridgeton to solve a crime that she hopes will help heal the town.
Armed with the few clues that she has from a missing person case in the eighties, Grace untangles the mystery alongside a questionable witness.
4. Family Photos (2021)
Detective Grace McKenna has a gift. When she looks into the eyes of criminals, she is inundated with glimpses of their crimes.
In book four of the McKenna Mystery Series, Grace’s gift takes her back to the 1950s, when Bridgeton, Massachusetts was run by high society families. When Grace and boyfriend, Mark Connolly, sign the paperwork on their newly purchased home, Grace learns things she’d rather not know about the seller and the family that formerly lived there.
A gunshot wound, old family photos with a mysterious woman, and a thousand pieces of shattered green glass, flash before Grace when she meets the seller, John Walsh. Recruiting the help of Mark, Barb, and a few other newly casted characters, Grace picks apart old family photos and gets tangled up in Bridgeton’s past. Meanwhile, she is faced with living in a home that was the setting for chilling town secrets.
In Family Photos, Grace dissects a crime that is close to home, provoking the truth so the dust can finally settle.
5. Chasing Ghosts (2022)
Are there always two sides to every one person?
In book five of the McKenna Mystery series, Grace finds herself in a tangle of one woman’s lies.
When a gothic, angsty teen girl shows up in her visions, she’s forced to dissect the past of Amy Brooks, do-gooder and doctor’s wife who runs a non-profit for pregnant and grief-stricken women. One of those women happens to be a newcomer to Bridgeton, by the name of Charlotte Anderson.
It doesn’t take Grace long to discover a rare bond between Amy and Charlotte, but as she digs deeper into their southern past, she uncovers all that has been left unsaid.
Grace’s own impending pregnancy is gripping her deadline tighter than ever before, as she works restlessly to solve the crime and stop Amy before someone else gets hurt.
In Chasing Ghosts, Grace has to step away from Bridgeton for the first time, to expose a ruthless criminal.
6. Bad Things (2023)
What happens when you open the door to the past?
In book six of the McKenna Mystery series, Grace locks eyes with Toby Melville, Bridgeton business owner and handyman.
It only takes a second to set Grace on the path to justice once again, when visions spin from Toby’s eyes. A stream of blood cascading down a bronzed man’s chin, creating a river that descends his neck and chest, before his body slips beneath a crush of white, foamy water. And then, a horizon of emerald green trees on a blue sky backdrop so beautiful it looks like a painting.
With baby Ellie now in the picture, the stakes are higher than ever before, as Grace struggles with the push and pull of being a working mother and a detective with a gift. As she adjusts to parenting life, questions her relationship with Mark, and finds out that her job might be in jeopardy, Grace sets out on a road trip that brings her back to the past, on a hunt to track down the source of Toby’s secrets.
Following a handful of tips provided by the locals in a small lakeside town, Grace is forced to do some digging, awakening secrets that have been sleeping for decades. As she keeps a pulse on the Bridgeton Police Department happenings, she learns that her job could be threatened by hidden agendas within the police station, and she will end up needing to make a choice between her gift and her career.
What she discovers about herself as she solves this next crime, ends up shaping the person she becomes.
The twistiest installment in the McKenna Mystery series yet.
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