Picture Perfect by Jodi Picoult

Movie star is a wife batterer.

I didn't like any of the characters.

If this was the first JP book I'd read, I doubt I would have picked up another.

2 stars

Murder Beyond the Grave by James Patterson

Audio 5 hours.
Read by Christopher Ryan Grant.

Two true crime stories.  First up, a man kidnapped and buried alive.  The second about a woman developer murdered at a lodge in the Sierra Nevada mountains. I enjoyed the second one more.

4 stars.

The Story of Arthur Truluv by Elizabeth Berg

Almost like a fairy tale, the story of Maddy, the sad, lonely, pregnant teenager who is befriended by a recently widowed old man, Arthur.  I think Lucille may have been my favorite character though.

4.5 stars

Home Sweet Murder by James Patterson

Audio: 5.5 hours
Read by Peter Ganim

Two true-crime stories fictionalized by the author.  I really enjoyed this.  It reminded me very much of the earlier Patterson works, which I really loved.

Unrelated stories of two home invasion murders.

5 stars

Look for Me by Lisa Gardner

Detective D.D. Warren teams up with survivor Flora Dane in an attempt to find a missing teenager after the rest of her family is murdered.  Is the girl a suspect or a victim though?

4 stars.