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  • Scarlet Falls
  • By: Melinda Leigh
  • Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
  • Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (118 ratings)

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Seconds to Live

By: Melinda Leigh
Narrated by: Cris Dukehart
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Summary

A Wall Street Journal bestseller

Wildlife biologist Mac Barrett avoided his hometown of Scarlet Falls for years - too many bad memories. But when he receives the news that his father is dying, he rushes home only to discover he’s too late. Shaken, Mac retreats to his remote cabin seeking peace and solace. Instead, he crashes his jeep to narrowly avoid running over the naked body of a woman lying in the road. Even more disturbing, when he regains consciousness, the body is gone.

Police detective Stella Dane wants to believe Mac, even if his story about the vanishing body seems far-fetched. But when Mac’s description matches the missing woman she’s been searching for, it raises a disturbing question: How does a dead body disappear?

Mac and Stella will have to work together to find the answer and catch a psychotic kidnapper - and quickly. The killer has a deadly message to send, and the case is about to become personal....

2016 Golden Leaf Award Winner

©2016 Melinda Leigh (P)2016 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved.

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Fantastic book very gripping !!

I’m a window cleaner and have lots of time to kill so listen to audio books every day, I’ve loved all 3 books in this serious a little sad that I’ve finished them.

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Wow!

Melinda did it again, a perfect blend between action and love!

Could not get enough of this trilogy!

Can't wait to read more of her books!!

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Great series of books

This is the last in the Scarlet Falls series and it was just as good as the first two. There are references to events and characters in previous books but they are quickly explained and this book could easily stand alone. It was brave of the writer to feature a less than perfect hero, who had a drug problem in his teen years and had let his guilt about this separate him from his family. He returns to his home town and faces problems with his old gang, along with getting involved in investigating a murder with the h, who was a newly promoted police detective. Really good to find a competent and intelligent h who is fully capable or doing her job and does not need constant rescuing or hand holding from the H. Also good to see that the H realises this, accepts it and admires her for it. A decent romance where both H and h admit their developing feelings with honesty and face their situation head on. Mixed in with a good murder mystery that was a little gruesome at times in its detail, but kept me guessing to the end. My only slight criticism is the boss of the h who is the stereotypical ignorant police boss more concerned with public relations than actually getting the right person convicted, but he did redeem himself in the last chapters by waking up to his mistakes.

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Scarlet Falls goes out with a bang.

I thoroughly enjoyed listening to the gripping conclusion to Melinda Leigh's Scarlet Falls series. Once I started I couldn't put this book down until the captivating conclusion. One of my favourite things about this series is the way the characters interconnected and this book doesn't disappoint.

Our new hot hero wildlife biologist Mac Barrett teams him up with sassy police detective Stella Dane. Together they are a dynamite duo but old favourites from previous books also make appearances. I look forward to listening to more by this author and would love to see her Scarlet Falls characters crossover into other series.

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Great book

Great audio book have listen to all three books love this author will get more

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Read they lot !!!

This Is third book in they series and each have been a real good book in my opinion, pure page turners. All had a secondary storyline and run seamlessly.

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Great

Love this book. I don't know if this is the last of the Barratt books but SPOILER ALERT the only improvement I could think of is to know what sentences Donnie got for the murder of Lee and Kate and the crimes against Grant Carson and the arson. Also what happened to Josh. Was he locked in a padded cell

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an amazing series.

If you could sum up Seconds to Live in three words, what would they be?

fantastic powerful amazing

What was one of the most memorable moments of Seconds to Live?

when stella saved mac and jeanna.

Which character – as performed by Cris Dukehart – was your favourite?

liked the way she did stella, thought she really portraid her character well.

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

when stella and mac started to realise they had feelings for eash other.

Any additional comments?

fantastic series of books and this is an author i will read again

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Great story

Third part of a trilogy that I just could not put down till I reach the end of

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Look behind you

Great story which is completely different from the norm. The main twists come as a surprise as the lead characters aren't the ones being hunted

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