Her Last Whisper: An absolutely unputdownable crime thriller -- Jennifer Chase

<p><strong>Katie focuses her mind, trying to keep another anxiety attack at bay. The victim's long brown hair is slick and wet, her body rigid in the grass. She looks more like a mannequin than the woman Katie had spoken with only yesterday, the woman she had promised to protect... </strong></p><p>When a cold, naked body is discovered by a couple on a jog through the lush woodlands of <strong>Pine Valley, California</strong>, new recruit <strong>Detective Katie Scott</strong> is stunned to discover the victim is Amanda Payton - a much-loved local nurse and the woman at the heart of an unsolved case she's been investigating whilst getting a grip on her crippling PTSD.</p><p>Weeks earlier, Amanda had run, battered and bruised, out into the headlights of a passing patrol car. She claimed to have just escaped a kidnapping, but with no strong evidence, the case went cold. <strong>The Pine Valley police made a fatal mistake... </strong></p><p>Katie is certain the marks on Amanda's wrists complete a pattern of women being taken, held captive and then showing up dead in remote locations around Pine Valley - and she won't let someone die on her watch again.</p><p>But then a beautiful office worker with a link to the hospital where Amanda worked goes missing. With only days before the next body is due to show up, <strong>can Katie make amends for her past by saving this<em> </em>innocent life?</strong></p><p><strong>Totally gripping crime fiction for fans of Lisa Regan, Rachel Caine a