Fatal Legacy

Otter Creek, Book 4

By: Rebecca Deel

Narrated by: Kristina Fuller Yuen

Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins

Publisher's summary

Three deaths in two weeks, and she could be the next victim.

The biggest dangers bookstore owner Del Peterson faces are paper cuts and aching feet until a gift draws her into the center of a federal investigation, and she's taken into custody as a material witness. When Del's safe house is breached and a marshal dies protecting her, she turns to the man she knows has the skills to help.

Two years ago, Josh Cahill transitioned from elite Delta warrior to small-town cop. When a federal judge is murdered, nothing will stop him from protecting the woman he loves. With help from his Delta unit and friends at Fortress Security, Josh sets a trap to capture the shooter. Though he vowed to protect her, bringing down the man behind the shooter might require Josh to take Del into the heart of danger.

©2015 Rebecca Deel (P)2018 Rebecca Deel

Very Entertaining

I love this series. Kristina Fuller Yuen is very talented!!! For my view of the characters and story, I enjoyed this narration very much. The story is full of great characters, great suspense, and a bit of romance.

Exciting Clean Mystery Thriller

I have really been enjoying this series! It has mystery with an action thriller side and also romance that is very entertaining and still free of bad language and sexual content. What more can you want? The only con I have is that the romance side is more instantaneous then happens in real life, very quick to start pet names... still really sweet and not a turn off to reading the book or series.

The narrator does a wonderful job, has a pleasant voice, good character voice differentiations that do make for a fun listen. I did prefer listening at 1.25x speed.

Parents: middle school and up appropriate
Language: none
Violence: PG-13 - think Liam Neeson action thriller
Sexual content: PG, mostly the attraction and kissing variety

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Awesome !!!

This is one of my favorite books by Rebecca Deel it catches you from the beginning all the way to the end just wish you’d put out more audible books thank you Miss deal

Great story

I absolutely loved Josh and Dell’s story. It was fast paced and full of action! I think this is my favorite in the Otter Creek series so far. The narration was good. I look forward to the next book in this series

Great Romantic Suspense!

This was my first Rebecca Deel's book. This is the book 4 in the Otter Creek Series, but I haven't read the first books in the Series. This book can be read as a standalone, but I think the best is to begin with the first books to know more about the other characters. This is a great Romantic Suspense, with wonderful characters. The story is well written and the storyline is fast-paced, intriguing and suspenseful. I loved the sweet romance between Del and Josh. Josh is an alpha protective/possessive man. Del is a really strong woman. I love their story and their happy ending! The secondary characters are also very interesting and I'd love to know more about them. This was my first listen to Kristina Fuller Yuen's voice. She has a great range of voices and she has done an amazing job with all the characters! I really enjoyed my listening. Now, I'd love to listen to the oter books in the Series. I received this free review copy audiobook at my request and I have voluntarily left this review.

nice book

I received this audiobook at my request and I voluntarily wrote a review.

This book was nice reading, but for some reason I kept stopping the recording. it didn't possess me like other books do.
maybe it's the fact that there are so many characters in the book, and sine I didn't read the first 3 books in the series and was not familiarized with them, I felt a little overwhelmed by this.

The love story was nice, but again - I wasn't enthralled by it.

Mixed Emotions

This is my first experience with this series and while it was a decent story, I did have some issues with it.

I loved the Delta Force alums as the saviors of the day. Their testosterone-filled presence made for some very thrilling sequences. I didn't understand then, why such a take-no-prisoners mentality would leave the bookstore without security.

Ivy was one of the female leads who had suffered at the hands of an abusive ex. She was wary around men. Why would she shy away from a US Marshal but get in the face of a burly male hospital orderly?

The murder of the judge is the catalyst for this story. If the killer was so brazen to shoot the judge in his home, why didn't he take care of the two booksellers who were in the home as well?

There were some head-scratchers, for sure.

The narration was really well-done. I don't agree with the voice she chose for Ivy. It was way too high-pitched and since Ivy was one of the main female leads, that high-pitch became a bit much. The narrator performed quite a few other voices - male and female - to perfection though. In fact, when the other security force came into the story, I was in complete awe with her ability to make those varied voices so unique.

There was plenty of action in this story interspersed with the "sweethearts" and the "kittens" and the nose bopping (gag) and that makes it worth the price of admission.

The Gangs all here!

Del and her cousin Ivy are at the Judges home cataloguing his late Mother's books when he is assassinated. So starts a nightmare for the girls especially when it becomes apparent that the killer may be ex special forces.

Josh Cahill worried for the girls safety swears to protect them even if it means going against the FBI. To that end he asks for help from his fellow Delta warriors.

Finally we get to see Josh in action as the Specs Ops warrior that he is and meet his best friend Alex, Team Durango and the best Fortress Security has to offer. But when facing a stone cold killer will even their combined strength and skill be enough to keep the woman he cares about alive or is Del doomed to die.

I loved, loved this book featuring the last remaining Cahill sibling to fall and fall hard.

I received this Audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this unbiased review.

Always pay attention to the spiders.

Otter Creek's bookseller, Del Patterson, had been called to inventory the vast collection of books left by one of her favourite customers following her untimely death a few days before. With her was Ivy, her cousin, staying with her after her escape from an abusive partnership. But the pair had barely started working when Del found Judge Reece, the dead women's son, murdered in his office. That night someone broke into De!'s home and only the fast arrival of Josh, an ex special ops. man now working for the local police, probably saved their lives. Coincidence? Josh didn't think so. With the arrival of F.B.I.man, Jordan, muddying the water, the race began to catch the dangerous perpetrator whilst providing much needed protection for the two women.

As a thriler, Fatal legacy is excellent, with good, fast paced action, conflict amongst the law agencies, normal everyday interaction (like cooking and chatting) in between frenzied activity and the sometimes creepy location descriptions. But for this reader, the who!e was marred by the over sentimenta!used and patronizing romance which oozes out at every possible moment. No, this reader is not a fan of that genre but, done well, the introduction of a love aspect can enhance a story, as Rebecca Deel has proved in earlier Otter Creek books. But this time, the constant endearments of, in particular, 'beautiful' and 'sweatheart' in almost every sentence, coupled with the plucky little woman sentiments (even when the women in question were crying and fainting with fear, or moaning with pain over a simple twisted ankle already raised up and not in use) became intensively irritating. So much so, this reader found it hard to continuing to listen to the final few chapters, despite the excellent narration of Kristina Fuller Yuen. Her reading was clearly articulated with good intonation and emotional presentation of text and characters. Her voicing for all of the protagonists was separately different and distinctive, appropriate for each one, also. And throughout she kept a fast pace. A very nice performance.

My thanks to the rights ho!der, who, at my request, freely gifted me with a complimentary copy of Fatal Legacy, via Audiobook Boom. Although I did not enjoy this one, for the reasons noted above, it has not deterred me from looking forward to any other Otter Creek stories should they occur. The delight of small town mysteries is re-meeting the folks from earlier books and I still retain a fondness for the town triplets with their penchant for officers of the police and, especially, the elderly and nosey local author.