The Secret Child

A DI Amy Winter Thriller, Book 2

By: Caroline Mitchell

Narrated by: Elizabeth Knowelden

DI Amy Winter knows evil. She’s lived through it.

Four-year-old Ellen is snatched by a stranger in the dead of night. Her devastated mother, Nicole, receives four identical phials and a threatening note in a familiar scrawl that chills her to the bone. But she always knew this would happen. She’s been expecting it for years....

According to the note, one of the phials is poisoned. Nicole is given a deadly challenge: if she drinks one, the sadistic kidnapper will notify the police of Ellen’s location. The sender claims to be Luka Volkov, but Luka is supposed to be dead, killed long ago in a fire that haunts all those involved.

DI Amy Winter is still reeling from the discovery that she is the daughter of a serial killer, and her childhood trauma only makes her more determined to bring Ellen home. When another child is taken, Amy finds herself in a race against time. To rescue the children, must she seek help from the one person she wants to forget.

©2019 Caroline Mitchell (P)2019 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.

The reader is terrible.

The story is fine, and engaging enough. But the reader is just awful: too dramatic, with odd and unnecessary emphasis in every single sentence, and breathless delivery I found unbearably distracting.

A good Listen

I enjoyed this book, but hoped for a better resolution. What about the appeal? I don’t see that in the future for DI Winter.
Oh well...in to another author.

Better than the first! Can’t wait for the next

Love the suspense, link to 1st novel and the narration. Excellent pick up to the 1st novel plus intro to new characters. Highly recommend

Loved it

Always leave me trying to help figure it out....I’m really stuck on the story line.

Not as good as the first

This is a good second in the series. The story is not quite as compelling as the first but it’s solid. Amy is developing well. She seems stronger and more confident in this book. The narrator has a voice that sounds like whispers sometimes when it shouldn’t, but she does a decent job with the emotions of the characters.