Last Round's on Me
(2026)(The fifth book in the Livvy Mercer Mystery series)
A novel by McKenna Langford and Brett Monk
She has spent every spare hour learning how to fight back. She is about to find out whether it worked.
Livvy Mercer reads people the way other people read street signs. A flicker at the mouth, half a second of hesitation, and she knows what someone is hiding. It has made her very good at solving the cases the police close too early.It has also made her enemies she has never met.
One of them just walked out of custody.
So when an elderly woman comes to her bar having lost her savings to a man impersonating a police officer, Livvy knows better than to take it on. She takes it anyway. She is good at this. It should have been a name, an address, and a scammer with some explaining to do.
Instead it is an empty office, a dead man, and a murder weapon in his neck that belongs to her.
Somebody stole it from her. Somebody knew she would come.
The frame is good enough that the detectives stop asking how she found the body and start asking why she was there. Good enough that the man she loves cannot defend her without losing everything. Good enough that Livvy starts to wonder whether a prison cell was ever the point.
Some rounds are on the house. This one is on her.
Last Round's on Me is the fifth novel in the Livvy Mercer Mysteries and reads as a complete story on its own.
A mystery for readers who want:
- An amateur sleuth with a sharp mouth and a soft heart
A framed-for-murder plot with a slow-burn romance
A heroine who stops waiting to be rescued
Genre: Mystery
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