Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (on a Dead Man) by Jesse Q. Sutanto

 Audio.  11 hours.

Read by Eunice Wong.

Vera Wong finds a distressed young woman outside the police station and brings her home for tea.  The woman confesses her friend Thomas is missing and Vera sets out to find him.

4 stars.

Cross & Sampson by James Patterson and Brian Sitts

 Each character has an independent story with only the briefest of intersection.  Sampson works a bombing case while Cross searches for his missing son.

It was weird reading an Alex Cross book where his story is written in the third person and Sampson's is firt person.  Best I can remember, Alex Cross was always told through the first person.

3.5 stars.

The Astral Library by Kate Quinn

 Down on her luck Alix discovers a magical library where someone can live inside a book.  It sounds great until the library and its patrons come under attack.

Not a big fan of fantasy, so a bit disappointing for me.

3 stars.

Judge Stone by Viola Davis and James Patterson

 In rural Alabama, a doctor is arrested for performing an abortion, now a felony since the Supreme Court overturned Roe.  Judge Mary Stone finds herself in the middle of a storm as protestors from around the south descend on her small town.

4 stars.

All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker

Audio.  14.5 hours.

Read by Edoardo Ballerini.

Patch saves a girl from being abducted, but then ends up being the one taken.  He spends a year locked away in the dark with a girl named Grace.  When they are rescued, Grace disappears and Patch spends years trying to find her.

This was a beautifully written story.  The only part I couldn't accept was why he made finding this girl his life's work.  It would have been 5 stars but for this.

4 stars.

All This Could Be Yours by Hank Phillippi Ryan

 Tessa Calloway has written a best selling novel and is on tour when strange things begin to happen.

This book was such a slog.  It could have been a good story if it was 100 pages shorter.

2 stars.

Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Q. Sutanto

 Audio.  10.75 hours.

Read by Eunice Wong.

When a dead body shows up in Vera's tea shop, she's intent on proving it was murder and finding the culprit.

4 stars.