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Their Dying Embrace: A completely gripping and heart-stopping crime thriller
Paperback
Series: Detective Morgan Brookes, Book 14
ISBN13: 9781837903825
Publisher: Bookouture
Published: Feb 3 2025
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.59
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.06 Depth: 7.81
Language: English
Morgan kneels beside the fluttering crime scene tape. Their hands clasped, the couple's embrace looks loving and warm, but an icy chill grips the air. Their lips are blue, and blood is dripping on the floor. They have been silenced forever...
When sweet-natured teaching assistant Rosie Waite, and her boyfriend Matt, are found dead in their quaint family home in the Lake District, Detective Morgan Brookes is horrified. Sleeping just two doors down, she heard no screams for help, no slamming doors, or alarms in the night. A twisted killer nailed the couple's lips shut, and Morgan vows to keep watch over every innocent family in Rydal Falls until this monster is brought to justice.
Climbing the narrow attic staircase as she searches every inch of the property, Morgan finds a mattress on the floor, empty food wrappers, and a letter that reads: if you've found this, you're next to die. Fear washes over Morgan's team; the killer was watching his victims, and now her life is at risk.
Ignoring pleas that she take a step back, Morgan throws herself harder at the case discovering that the nails used to bind the victims' lips were pierced with expert equipment. And Matt had been asking questions at a local tattoo parlour. Everyone thought he and Rosie were a quiet, kind-hearted couple, but was Matt hiding a dangerous secret? Did he betray the woman he loved?
It's the break Morgan desperately needs, until one of her closest friends is attacked. His lifeless body abandoned, crimson with blood, and Morgan believes the chilling crime scene is linked to Matt and Rosie. The killer has been watching from the shadows again. Morgan's used to putting her life on the line to protect the innocent, but what must she sacrifice to save the people she loves most? And how many precious lives will be lost before she can stop this killer?
A must-read and an unstoppable thrill-ride. Fans of Lisa Regan, Melinda Leigh and Rachel McLean will be blown away by the heart-racing tension in this absolutely unputdownable crime thriller.
What readers are saying about Their Dying Embrace:
'Wow!!! Literally amazing!!... This blew my mind. I couldn't put it down... Gripped me from the first page.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'I just wanted to take a peek at the story and now, hours later I read the last page... Literally unputdownable... Incredible.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Just wow!... Sucked me in and I was on a rollercoaster that I couldn't get off of until I finished the book. Well deserving of five stars!' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
'Had me absolutely gripped from start to finish... Had me gasping and getting up to make a cup of tea to calm myself down... Then coming in with the PLOT TWIST.' Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
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