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The Summer Children

The Collector, Book 3

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The Summer Children

By: Dot Hutchison
Narrated by: Siiri Scott
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This FBI agent has come to expect almost anything—just not this…

When Agent Mercedes Ramirez finds an abused young boy on her porch, covered in blood and clutching a teddy bear, she has no idea that this is just the beginning. He tells her a chilling tale: an angel killed his parents and then brought him here so Mercedes could keep him safe.

His parents weren’t just murdered. It was a slaughter—a rage kill like no one on the Crimes Against Children team had seen before. But they’re going to see it again. An avenging angel is meting out savage justice, and she’s far from through.

One by one, more children arrive at Mercedes’s door with the same horror story. Each one a traumatized survivor of an abusive home. Each one chafing at Mercedes’s own scars from the past. And each one taking its toll on her life and career.

Now, as the investigation draws her deeper into the dark, Mercedes is beginning to fear that if this case doesn’t destroy her, her memories might.

©2018 Dot Hutchison (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Crime Fiction Genre Fiction Mystery Police Procedural Psychological Suspense Thriller & Suspense Fiction Crime

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A Goodreads Choice Award Semifinalist, Horror
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This book not only gives the stark realisation of the horrors in the world and what FBI agents have to go through, but also how children can be so elastic and bounce back from hell on earth to a life of their choice thanks to the bravery of a few. This book is brutal, honest and truthful yet showing beauty at every corner. truly and easily one of the best books I have listened to In a long time.
I highly recommend the trilogy to anyone.

fantastic!

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must read if you like Crime, just enough information to treat the reader with respect and not making you feel dumb or bored. The reading is masterful, I wish this readers will read all my audiobooks

soo good

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amazing author!! all books in the collection have gripped me...can't wait for the next. well done

amazing

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the tree books fit together perfectly and are a great read by themselves.
The author guilds and helps u along the way as you listen to the unbelievable stories which unfold.

a perfect finally to the 3

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I love all of these books but the second didn’t quite meet the level of the first however this book brings it right back. An absolute must read!
Only down side to this is the Spanish without translation which was very frustrating!

As good as the first

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