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Her Second Death

A Short Story (Bree Taggert)

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Her Second Death

Written by: Melinda Leigh
Narrated by: Christina Traister
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In this short-story prequel to the Bree Taggert series by #1 Amazon Charts and #1 Wall Street Journal bestselling author Melinda Leigh, a murder investigation yields parallels to the Philly detective’s own frightening past.

When a man is shot in the head, Bree Taggert and her new partner, veteran detective Dana Romano, respond to the call. They break the news to the victim’s ex-wife and learn the estranged couple’s five-year-old daughter was supposed to have been with him. What starts as a murder investigation quickly morphs into a desperate search for a missing child. The case stirs memories of Bree’s own traumatizing childhood. To find the little girl, Bree will have to relive her own terrifying past.

©2021 Melinda Leigh. (P)2021 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved.
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Seriously don't waste your money or even worse, a credit. I thought the book would be about the creation of the bond between Bree and Dana, not a weak connection to Bree's past since book 1 covers that. Maybe if the book was a bit longer and Bree made an emotion connection to Dana and the child.
Second death?? I think not. Second trauma maybe. I find the titles of the books in this series bear little or no connection to the story within. Talking to others about the books requires me to open the title details to make sure of the book they are referring to.

Waste of time and even the tiny bit of money

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I really liked Book #1. This prequel story, Book #0.5, is meant to provide a bit more detail re the first days of work as a homicide detective, of the series’s main character, Bree. For some reason, the author chose to wrap that detail around an investigation in which Bree and her partner demonstrate an incredible level of ineptitude. Seriously. It’s mind-boggling. I’m trying to not give out spoilers, here, so I’ll just say that you’ll notice fairly soon a REALLY obvious clue, but the detectives don’t notice it until the end of the story. They don’t notice, despite the multiple times the clue is staring them right in their faces. It’s SOOOO obvious that, when the detectives ignored the clue, I found myself questioning if I’d really heard what I had when it was introduced. I’d really heard it; the clue was right there, near the beginning of this story. Pre-pandemic term usage, here: it’s like the author just phoned-in her story! (We can’t use that phrase in the same way now, can we? ;-) )

Cops so VERY stupid it’s almost farcical

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