I KILLED YOU ONCE

A heart-pounding ghost thriller

By: Dawn Merriman

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Can a dead serial killer still haunt her?
Maribeth has created a safe little world for herself. A cabin in the middle of the woods is perfect for her, her dog, chickens and pigs. Throw in some back-breaking chores and bow-hunting and she has enough to fill her days. She doesn't have to fill her nights. That's when the ghosts of her family visit.
Two years before, the case she'd worked as a homicide detective, didn't stay neatly within her business hours. It ended up following her home, destroying her and her family in the process.
But now, something has invaded her safe space. Or has her mind finally snapped after two years of near solitude?
A haunting mix of adventure and psychological thrills. Explore the limits of what one woman can endure and still triumph. A reading experience you won't forget.
Thriller readers, like you, are saying, “Takes you by the throat on the first page and grips you until the wow of an ending.”
Clear your schedule and delve into a world of secrets and bravery in this addictive suspense thriller.
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PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS "MARKED BY DARKNESS"
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The masterful first book in the Maddison, Indiana Thrillers series.

Book 1 – I Killed You Once
Book 2 – Inheriting Elyse
Book 3 – Cage of Invisible Bars
Book 4 – 13 Doors
Book 5 - Jars of Things

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Enjoy this short excerpt:

My dog, Indy, turns on the wooded path, unsettled and blocking my way like he is spooked by a dead animal.
I push past Indy and jog over the small hill and around the turn in the trees.
I should have trusted the dog. The body propped against a tree is most certainly dead, but she’s not an animal.
Skittering to a stop, I slide down the snowy path and land on my rear.
The young woman sits against the tree, her dark hair, so much like Lilly’s hanging over both shoulders. The hair frames the mark carved on her chest.
The Roman numeral two.
For a moment, I think I'm seeing Lilly. Maybe she’s just playing a cruel trick on me.
But this young woman is really here, and Lilly never is.
My chest hurts, and I gasp for air. Indy paces next to me, whining, urging me to leave.
I crawl to the young woman instead, taking in details with my long-unused detective's eye.
The bloody mark on her chest has already frozen into tiny clinging crystals.
The mark of Jesse Franklin, but Jesse Franklin has been dead for two years.
She wears no shoes, but her socks are soaked and dirty. She'd been forced to walk here through the snow, terrified and freezing. My heart aches for the woman in a rush of emotion that nearly breaks me.
I don’t touch her or get too close, preserve the snowy crime scene. Two sets of footprints lead to the tree from the direction of the access road nearby. Only one set of prints lead out. It was too easy for someone to leave the girl on my path.
My path.
The realization sinks like a stone.
Whoever did this knew where he left her. He brought her here for me to find. A killer has been in my woods. A killer who knows just how to torture me.
I'm on my feet and sprinting back towards the cabin before Indy realizes I'd intended to move.
I run like the devil is on my heels.
Because he is.

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Find out what happens next, enjoy I Killed You Once today.

Robot reading

I dislike automatic voice. Needs editing for pronouns. Plot is good. He/She pronouns make it confusing. Marybeth is a star

weird narrator robot

don’t really care for the weird robot. Like narrator voice. Definitely sounds like an AI. A Some gratuitous words were used that I believe were extremely unnecessary. A few uses of the F word for no reason really. There wasn’t any language like this until almost all the way through the book.
Several times the Lord’s name was used in vain, which I’m not crazy about either.
if those were taken out of the story, it wouldn’t be a bad book and probably would have received a higher star rating from me

AI Review

Nope! The AI voice is no substitute for the real. thing. Stop trying to computerize everything in lige
I just want to listen to someone read me a book! It doesn't need improvement! this would have a higher re view rating if it weren't for that because it's a really good story.

virtual voice

This audio was spoilt by the robotic voice. No expressing feelings and or emotions. Clinical and really did not allow this story to grow on you. I will never purchase a book with virtual voice audio.

The AI voice is terrible. You can’t tell who is talking

Great story. Voice was terrible. There is no emotion with virtual voice. Would be really good with real narrators

Great Story

I love the story line but the electronic voice puts me of or I would have given it 5 Stars.

loved the book didn't like the voice of the computer it was too flat. No feel or inflection of voice

The story was good but terrible performance . This took away from the story some please use a real person

Good story bad reading

The story was good. No more virtual voice. I hated that. The voice inflection was off for the situation often enough that it made a difference.

Outstanding

At first I was not sure if I would enjoy this listen. It is great, you smile, you cry and enjoy.

Good Story Line

Good story line, but virtual voice was awful. It took away from the story. I almost stopped listening.