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Left for Dead

A DI Amy Winter Thriller, Book 3

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Left for Dead

By: Caroline Mitchell
Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
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A victim on display. A detective on the rails.

Shopping with her sister, DI Amy Winter is admiring a Valentine’s Day window display of a perfect bride encrusted in diamonds and resplendent in lace - until she notices blood oozing from the mannequin’s mouth.

This is no stunt. A post-mortem reveals the victim was left to die on her macabre throne for all to see. When a second victim is found, it emerges that both women were "Sugar Babes" arranging dates with older men online - and Amy finds herself hunting an accomplished psychopath.

As she tracks down the killer, Amy’s instincts go into overdrive when the charismatic head of the agency behind the display makes no attempt to hide his fascination with her serial-killer parents. What exactly does he want from Amy? With her own world in freefall as her biological mother, Lillian Grimes, appeals her conviction, Amy pushes the boundaries of police procedure when a third "Sugar Babe" disappears...Is she as much at risk as the killer’s victims?

©2020 Caroline Mitchell. (P)2020 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Thrillers Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Psychological Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime Suspense

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The twist in this one surprised me. The killer gets off on the death of his victims, but it’s why he has this specific ritual that will surprise you. Wanting to escape her past the lead officer chose this life to put away killers. But her family is thrown into her face often. The story does drag on a bit. The narration is nice and easy to listen to.

Left for Dead

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… but the breathy voice really annoys me - Amy Winter is a feisty detective with steely backbone and determination, so why in earth did anyone select such a feeble tone for the reader??
And, Caroline, please learn the difference between bring and take! I’m so enjoying the story line, but I find tripping over such basic grammatical errors ruins the flow.
Thank you

Sorry to be picky…

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nice one .. interesting and must listen best way to listen to good story .

good

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DI Amy Winter has always been self assured and focused, now she is dealing with the continual ghost from her past, her jailbird biological mother Lillian who has been painting herself as an innocent victim of her violent late husband’s crimes. Thanks to the evidence that has ironically been found by Amy in her late adopted father’s attic, Lillian could be freed……

Now all the family members including Amy need to give evidence and sides are taken, will she be alone in her account of her past life???

All this is going on while she is in the hunt for a killer. Now because of Amy’s past she seems to be drawn to the dark side of killers and she has an instinct that no others on her team seem to possess. Amy’s private life never collide until now, she is behaving in a reckless manor until she is on her own, on the trail of the killer who is fascinated by her, has she bitten off more than she can chew…..

*Another Tense Ride*

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A very enjoyable third instalment of this series. Although it’s yet another police officer who flouts the rules of collecting evidence and police procedures with impunity. But then it’s fiction so I’ll get over it!

Very entertaining

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