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The Secret Child

A DI Amy Winter Thriller, Book 2

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The Secret Child

By: Caroline Mitchell
Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden
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DI Amy Winter knows evil. She’s lived through it.

Four-year-old Ellen is snatched by a stranger in the dead of night. Her devastated mother, Nicole, receives four identical phials and a threatening note in a familiar scrawl that chills her to the bone. But she always knew this would happen. She’s been expecting it for years....

According to the note, one of the phials is poisoned. Nicole is given a deadly challenge: if she drinks one, the sadistic kidnapper will notify the police of Ellen’s location. The sender claims to be Luka Volkov, but Luka is supposed to be dead, killed long ago in a fire that haunts all those involved.

DI Amy Winter is still reeling from the discovery that she is the daughter of a serial killer, and her childhood trauma only makes her more determined to bring Ellen home. When another child is taken, Amy finds herself in a race against time. To rescue the children, must she seek help from the one person she wants to forget.

©2019 Caroline Mitchell (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Thrillers Fiction International Mystery & Crime Mystery Police Procedural Psychological Suspense Thriller Thriller & Suspense Crime Crime Thriller Suspense

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I enjoyed the second book now on the third I keeps you wanting to here more and a good enough story to keep your interest

Really enjoyed

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Narrator: Elizabeth Knowelden

DI Amy Winter has a past that shocked her when secrets were revealed so how will she cope when the rest of her team and the wider public learn of her past?
It certainly makes her job harder being in the limelight but that doesn’t stop her unraveling the twists in the case she finds herself caught up in.
I’m really enjoying this series, Amy’s past gives an unusual and unique edge to her character, I can’t wait to see how things play out for her.

Again some great narration from Elizabeth Knowelden.

Hooked

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I have become a huge fan of Caroline’s writing style, she captures me in the same way Karin slaughter and Patricia Cornwell does, I’m sad the book has ended but my what a story. I am defo a little hooked on do Amy winter. Great stuff.

Thank you

Fantastic listen

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In this instalment Di Amy Young is not only battling a sensitive case but she is facing troubles in her personal life. She is just getting used having a sibling resurface that she thought was dead and is rebuilding that relationship, sadly her locked up in prison serial killer birth mother is still trying to derail everything and trying to pass herself off as a victim and is using whatever means to get to Amy (Aka Poppy via her biological mother) who was adopted at 4years old and renamed as Amy as par of her new life.

The case is about child abduction two children go missing. It is connected to a decorated scientist who is highly respected with honours etc. He and his team experimented on children using methods that could not be condoned, he never wants the secrets to get out. The parents of the missing children were part of team involved with the experiments and with each kidnapped child the parent receives four phials and they have to drink one to prove how much they love their child.

The kidnapper was one of the victim’s and he wants it all exposed. No one is taking him seriously so he takes drastic measures. Will his story be told in full? And as the hunt goes on Amy’s past is merging into her work, just what her serial killer Mum wants. Will Amy find the kidnapper? Will the experiments be exposed? Will the public get to know the secrets of Amy’s past? While everything is going on the Secret Child is in plain sight.

*The Battle of two Halves*

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I really enjoyed the first book in this series, and very much enjoyed this second book. The narration is excellent, the story line is gripping and kept me hooked all the way through.

excellent!

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