Final Grave

Siesta Key's Detective Meri Ann Fehr's mother disappeared fifteen years before she receives a troubling call from an Idaho detective. He believes he's found the missing woman's jewelry lying beside skeletal remains on a high plateau on the outskirts of Boise. Eager to end years of uncertainty and to jump-start the cold case, Meri Ann flies west. The Basque detective handling the case would rather she stay in sunny Florida--not so the killer Her arrival sets in motion a horrific, calculated plan.


Final Grave keeps the reader guessing right up to the final sentence. A chilling who done it.

JB Hamilton Queen
-author of Imminent Reprisal and Masters of the Breed


Bernitts deft touch with detail put the reader firmly in the great northwest, where her characters jump to life. Myriad plot twists make this a page turner.

Madonna Dries Christensen
- author of
Masquerade: The Swindler Who Conned J.Edgar Hoover