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Catch Her Death
- Detective Madison Harper, Book 5
- By: Wendy Dranfield
- Narrated by: Gigi Burgdorf
- Length: 9 hrs and 13 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 123
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 119
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 118
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.
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3 out of 5 stars
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A brooding Madison
- By Amazon Customer on 11-25-22
- Catch Her Death
- Detective Madison Harper, Book 5
- By: Wendy Dranfield
- Narrated by: Gigi Burgdorf
Entertaining but flawed series
Reviewed: 06-13-23
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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Little Girl Taken
- Detective Madison Harper, Book 3
- By: Wendy Dranfield
- Narrated by: Gigi Burgdorf
- Length: 9 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 223
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 204
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 201
An abandoned baby is the last thing Detective Madison Harper expects to find as she drives to her first day back at work since the case that ripped her life apart. But as she cradles the shivering child close, all her instincts tell her there’s something more sinister at play. Then she finds a lone sneaker down a muddy trail nearby, the laces spattered with blood....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Keep them coming!
- By debbjo on 06-25-24
- Little Girl Taken
- Detective Madison Harper, Book 3
- By: Wendy Dranfield
- Narrated by: Gigi Burgdorf
Love the books but the main character can be grating sometimes
Reviewed: 04-18-22
I really enjoy this series. I plan on reading all of them. I’m invested in all the characters, and the mysteries are satisfying.
The narrator is great, she feels perfect for this series.
My only complaint is that sometimes I find myself hating the main character and I’m not sure if it’s intentional on the author’s part.
She’s super judgy all the time, sometimes internally but sometimes audibly.
She makes huge mistakes or overlooks important details. There were several times in this book she would just run with something and I’d find myself thinking “did she ever bother to verify who this person is/if this thing actually happened”
When these things actually end up with consequences for her, she immediately jumps to blaming other people. Saying she’s being set up, when she easily could’ve avoided the problem by taking a different approach.
Overall though this doesn’t hinder my enjoyment.
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