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    "title": "Their Dying Embrace",
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    "collection_title": "Detective Morgan Brookes",
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    "description": "Morgan kneels beside the fluttering crime scene tape. Their hands clasped, the couple\u2019s embrace looks loving and warm, but an icy chill grips the air. Their lips are blue, and blood is dripping on the floor. They have been silenced forever\u2026\n\nWhen sweet-natured teaching assistant Rosie Waite, and her boyfriend Matt, are found dead in their quaint family home in the Lake District, Detective Morgan Brookes is horrified. Sleeping just two doors down, she heard no screams for help, no slamming doors, or alarms in the night. A twisted killer nailed the couple\u2019s lips shut, and Morgan vows to keep watch over every innocent family in Rydal Falls until this monster is brought to justice.\n\nClimbing the narrow attic staircase as she searches every inch of the property, Morgan finds a mattress on the floor, empty food wrappers, and a letter that reads: if you\u2019ve found this, you\u2019re next to die. Fear washes over Morgan\u2019s team; the killer was watching his victims, and now her life is at risk.\n\nIgnoring pleas that she take a step back, Morgan throws herself harder at the case discovering that the nails used to bind the victims\u2019 lips were pierced with expert equipment. And Matt had been asking questions at a local tattoo parlour. Everyone thought he and Rosie were a quiet, kind-hearted couple, but was Matt hiding a dangerous secret? Did he betray the woman he loved?\n\nIt\u2019s the break Morgan desperately needs, until one of her closest friends is attacked. His lifeless body abandoned, crimson with blood, and Morgan believes the chilling crime scene is linked to Matt and Rosie. The killer has been watching from the shadows again. Morgan\u2019s used to putting her life on the line to protect the innocent, but what must she sacrifice to save the people she loves most? And how many precious lives will be lost before she can stop this killer?",
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