The Echoes

A Novel

By: Jess Montgomery

Narrated by: Susan Bennett

The fourth in Jess Montgomery's evocative Kinship series, The Echoes combines exquisite storytelling with extraordinary crime plotting.

"A beautifully written tour de force." —Linda Castillo on The Stills

As July 4, 1928 approaches, Sheriff Lily Ross and her family look forward to the opening of an amusement park in a nearby town, created by Chalmer Fitzpatrick—a veteran and lumber mill owner. When Lily is alerted to the possible drowning of a girl, she goes to investigate, and discovers schisms going back several generations, in an ongoing dispute over the land on which Fitzpatrick has built the park.

Lily's family life is soon rattled, too, with the revelation that before he died, her brother had a daughter, Esme, with a woman in France, and arrangements have been made for Esme to immigrate to the U.S. to live with them. But Esme never makes it to Kinship, and soon Lily discovers that she has been kidnapped. Not only that, but a young woman is indeed found murdered in the fishing pond on Fitzpatrick's property, at the same time that a baby is left on his doorstep.

As the two crimes interweave, Lily must confront the question of what makes family: can we trust those we love? And what do we share, and what do we keep secret?

Everything I want in a book.

As always, the characters are intriguing, the time period engaging, and the plot well done. The narrator is amazing.

A new Character for this series

This is one of my favorite series and one of my favorite authors and an amazing narrator. This was not the best book in the series but did have a good mystery and, as-always, the intricate relationship between all the characters.
I would not read this book without reading the first 3. It's not really a stand-alone book at all.
I am excited about the addition of a spunky, 9 year-old, French girl to the cast of characters.

Jess Montgomery and Susan Bennett

I found Jess Montgomery by searching books narrated by Susan Bennett and now I need more! The sheriff has a pretty big personality that I didn’t like occasionally, but loved all the same. The extended family they have formed is wonderful & makes for great reads. I throughly enjoyed all four books & look forward to new ones.