Their Dying Embrace

Detective Morgan Brookes, Book 14

De: Helen Phifer

Narrado por: Alison Campbell

A completely gripping and heart-stopping crime thriller

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?

©2025 Helen Phifer (P)2025 Bookouture, an imprint of Storyfire Ltd.

Could not stop!!

I listened to this in less than 2 days. Could not stop! I think this is my fave one. We'll done!

Another great story!

This book is the latest in this series of DC Brooks! I have loved all of them and was super excited to see this latest one released!! I hope Helen Pfiefer continues writing in this series and has Allison Campbell as the narrator! What a great pair!

I can’t stop listening

This series has been one of my absolute favorites. The writing is so good and so is the narrator.

Another great read!

Another great installment of the Morgan Brooks series! I enjoyed this last one very much!

Loved it

Another awesome book in this series of Morgan Brookes can wait for the next one! Definitely one of my favorite authors!

Love the Morgan Brookes series!

I hate waiting for the next one! I love all the books in this series!

The story was unique

I don’t really care for the characters. I feel like for an inspector, Morgan does not have great survival instincts.