Her Final Breath
Detective Amanda Steele #7
by Carolyn Arnold
Published: February 17, 2023
Publisher: Bookouture
Genre: Hard-Boiled, Mystery, Crime Thrillers, Police Procedural, Organized Crime Thrillers, Serial Killer Thrillers, Murder Thrillers
Blurb:
Faint sunlight dapples the two figures lying on the ground. The mother cradles her daughter close to her side, a stuffed toy elephant next to them. Leaves from the tall trees fall onto their faces, but neither moves to brush them off.
When a dog walker in a local Virginia park finds the bodies of a mother and daughter, Detective Amanda Steele is first on the scene. Her own daughter has a toy just like the girl’s elephant and seeing the child like this is her worst nightmare come true. Heartbroken, she vows to get justice.
They quickly get an ID—Jill Archer and six-year-old Charlotte were reported missing last week, but interviewing Jill’s husband, Roy, Amanda’s gut tells her he is hiding something. When the autopsy reveals a terrible pattern of bruises, she’s certain that a domestic argument escalated out of control, and tiny Charlotte got caught in the crossfire. But just as Amanda is about to arrest Roy, another grave is found, containing another mother and daughter.
Desperate for a lead, she goes to every place the women could have been targeted, and learns from a concerned ER nurse about Leanne Reilly and her young daughter, Gracie, who haven’t been heard from in a week. Amanda hopes that Leanne has simply left her deadbeat husband, but she’s gripped by the fear that they are the killer’s latest victims. Now every second counts for Amanda to find the family and stop a little girl’s nightmare before it ends in tragedy…
A totally compulsive and gripping crime thriller. The next unputdownable read for fans of Angela Marsons, Robert Dugoni and Rachel Caine.
My Review:
Her Final Breath is the seventh book in the Detective Amanda Steele Series. I love this author's writing style. I like how we get the crime from the very beginning. Then we get to follow Amanda as she investigates the crime. We get the clues as Amanda does. I like how once you pick up a book by Carolyn Arnold you are pulled in by the crime and then you are racing to the end to see how it all turns out.
When the story began and the crime was committed I knew where all the clues were pointing to who the killer was but I kept thinking that is too easy. I was kept on the edge of my seat as each clue was revealed and we got closer and closer to the killer being revealed.
The twists kept rolling out one after the other keeping me in suspense and heading in all different directions as to who the killer was. I was very surprised by all the clues as each one turned up another leading Amanda in a different direction. I couldn’t turn those pages fast enough wanting to know who the real culprit was.
The body of a mother and her daughter are found in a park by a man walking a dog. All the clues point to one man the husband. Just as Amanda is about to arrest the husband for killing his wife and daughter another body of a mother and daughter is found in the same way as the other.
Amanda learns that the two cases are similar. Both women were abused by their husbands. So the question now is are the two cases coincidental? Was each woman killed by their husband or is there a serial killer on the loose?
To find out the answers and find out who the killer is then you are just going to have to grab a copy of Her Final Breath now! I highly suggest that you do it today that is if you like a good murder mystery!
Be sure and check out all the books in the Detective Amanda Steele Series
The Little Grave #1
Stolen Daughters #2
The Silent Witness #3
Black Orchid Girls #4
Her Frozen Cry #5
Last Seen Alive #6
Her Final Breath #7
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