• Catch Her Death

  • Detective Madison Harper, Book 5
  • By: Wendy Dranfield
  • Narrated by: Gigi Burgdorf
  • Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (117 ratings)

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Catch Her Death

By: Wendy Dranfield
Narrated by: Gigi Burgdorf
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“Mommy, wake-up,” he cries, pulling at her beautiful blonde hair. She’s silent, and her skin is deathly white. Tears roll down his cheeks as he realizes something is very wrong....

As snow falls on the small town of Lost Creek, Colorado, a three-year-old boy is found playing quietly in his car seat, his mother, cold as ice, slumped against the steering wheel in front. Tearing herself away from reconnecting with her special-agent father who abandoned her for his career, Detective Madison Harper is haunted by the fear in the boy’s sky blue eyes and vows to find justice for this innocent child, left motherless just days before Christmas.

Madison works around the clock on her only clue: a perfect circle of clean glass found on the car’s rear window. But she’s stopped in her tracks the moment another mother is found dead outside a church during Midnight Mass, her young boy left sucking his thumb on the frozen ground beside her. It can’t be a coincidence.

The need to spare the children might hint to the suspect being a woman, but the deeper Madison digs, the closer she gets to a serial killer her own father spent a lifetime chasing. Has the killer followed her father here? Could Madison, single mother to a son herself, be next?

As a blizzard closes in, wreaking havoc on the investigation, Madison hits the same dead ends her father did all those years ago. But when her closest friend goes missing, Madison must dive into the mind of this twisted soul and risk it all to stop another heart-shattering tragedy. But will she make it in time?

Perfect for fans of Lisa Regan, Melinda Leigh, and Kendra Elliot.

©2022 Wendy Dranfield (P)2022 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.

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A brooding Madison

Another modern detective named “Madison” this one a wounded and pessimistic one with more than her fair share of bad karma. Someone should send therapists to her small town and offer free services until all are able to see beyond the recesses of their own navels but until that happens this is a listenable story with an empathic heroine.

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Ending was good

Reader needs lessons in reading. Couldn’t tell when reader changed characters so it was a bit disconcerting here and there

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Full of unexpected twists

Usually it’s so easy to figure out what is going to happen in a book. But this one keeps the surprises coming it is refreshing and a great read!

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characters and narration

I love the whole series nate and Madison are a great pair in to the next one

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Entertaining but flawed series

I really enjoy this series but it’s got a few glaring flaws and contrivances.

It feels like every person that so much as shakes the main characters’ hands get murdered. It’s a bit comical at this point.

The cops have to fail at some pretty basic police work in order to move the plot along.

The main detective, Madison, is a very unlikable person. She makes snap judgements about people and overreacts to pretty understandable actions by others’
At one point the other POV character Nate gets a lead on a woman he once lived who was beaten to death because she helped him with his court case.
Madison gets upset and spends the rest of the book pouting about it taking up his attention.

It wouldn’t be so bad if she ever learned lesions or was called out by others but she’s always either rewarded for her actions/feelings or at most gets a pitied “I don’t want you to be sad” speech.

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Great series

This was a really great 5 book series. This author was suggested to me last week n now I’ve blown through all 5 books. Loved the characters n story line. Wish there were a #6 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Hope this is not the end!

Some storylines are resolved in this fifth book in the series, making me wonder if this is the end? I sure hope not! This was an entertaining, well-written, and disturbing story that was as exciting as the others in this series. Really interesting characters and lots of curiosity as to what happens next... The reader is compelled to seek another installment! My one and only complaint is the sub-par narrator. Her reading of the book is dry at times and her voice is just not a great one for audiobooks. Otherwise, this was an excellent listen!

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Best one yet!!

Best series I think I’ve ever read lol it listened to! I can’t wait to hear what happens in the next book and this all coming from a person that usually listens to westerns

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We all need more

I LOVE this series. It’s so well written. You can almost picture their faces in your mind. These would be amazing tv series. Please bring more books about Nate and Madison.

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Well Done

Another great storyline! Can’t wait for the next one. Sad, clever and super fun to listen too!

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