Audio. 10.5 hours.
Read by Richard Armitage and Stephanie Racine.
Adam and Amelia win a weekend getaway, or did they? Strange things happen when they arrive at the Scottish "inn".
Book flashes back quite often. OMG surprise by the end. Really enjoyed this book.
5 stars.
Wren thinks she's found love on a dating app, until she's ghosted by him. Then a private detective shows up and tells her this has happened before.
I would have given this a 5, but I dislike when intelligent women start making dumb decisions.
4 stars.
Sisters Harleigh and Calliope must face an ugly past when Harleigh is called on to defend a wealthy man who they realize is also a part of that past.
4 stars.
Disturbing story, but well written. Justice for the rich =/= justice for the poor.
4 stars.
Audio. 7 CDs.
Read by the authors.
A scientific look at how trauma influences the brain and affects behavior. Very informative.
4 stars.
Estranged dad dies and Rhonda inherits a younger half-sister she didn't know about.
I didn't particularly like any of the characters. I didn't care that the teens got killed, but I felt a bit sorry for the guy that killed them, so weird.
I honestly only finished it to get credit for reading it.
2.5 stars
Audio. 8.5 hours.
Read by Emily Shaffer, Lauren Fortgang, and Kirby Heyborne.
When poor, scrappy Jane (if that's her name) gets engaged to rich, recent widower Eddie she gets even more than she expected. I didn't like the Jane character much, but maybe that was the reader's voice?
4 stars.
Audio. 16 hours.
Read by Kathleen Early.
Andie finds out her mother is not who she always thought she was.
I found Laura's weakness around Nick to be very annoying.
4 stars.
A pilot's family is kidnapped and he is forced to make an impossible choice: crash the plane he's flying, or his family dies.
4.5 stars
Audio. 8CDs. Total time not listed.
Read by Olivia Dowd and Thomas Judd.
Alice finds out that the home she recently moved into was the site of a murder several years earlier. Dissatisfied by the findings of the investigation, Alice begins digging into the details herself.
Loved the British accents of the readers.
4 stars.
Matt's away at college and gets the devastating phone call that his family is dead. The only other member left is his older brother, Danny, who's in prison serving time for a crime he says he didn't commit.
I had trouble getting into the story. I never felt like reading it during the day, just at night and would often fall asleep and then have to reread the next night.
3 stars.
Audio. 9 hours.
Read by Ellen Archer
This book grabs you from the first chapter. A rich couple is dead and there are lots of people happy about it. The ending wrapped up pretty quickly, but other than that it was great. Even the teaser at the very end was perfect.
4.5 stars
#momspringa: a vacation from motherhood. I enjoyed the beginning and the end, but the middle could have been 30 pages shorter.
3.5 stars
Audio. 9.5 hours.
Read by Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrook-Smith,
Mostly this was interesting with some good twists. I'm still not sure who the killer's voice was supposed to be, him or her.
Not a fan of the "woman decides she should be investigating and makes dumb decisions".
4 stars.
Audio. 8 CDs. Doesn't give length of recording.
Read by Marin Ireland.
When a bank robbery goes wrong, and a group of people find themselves hostages, everyone learns about themselves and others.
I liked all the characters and the narrator really brought the story to life.
5 stars!
A woman goes missing and the focus is on her husband. But then another goes missing, along with her 6yo daughter.
Pretty exciting. Told in two time periods. (current and 11 years ago)
4 stars.
Audio. 9 hours.
Read by Lauren Fortgang.
Juno moves in with the Crouch family, but will she ultimately regret it? The family has secrets she wasn't prepared for.
4 stars
A young muslin man confesses to carrying out a school shooting, despite evidence to the contrary. Attorney Jack Swyteck tries to find out the real story.
4.5 stars
Audio. Read by Sutton Foster.
Heartbreaking story beautifully told.
5 stars.
Two very different women have their bodies/minds switch a la Freaky Friday. One a career woman and the other a stay-at-home mom.
Ridiculous premise saved by good characterization, dialog etc. Read it in 2 days.
4 stars.
Emma goes missing, and the police assume she's a runaway, but her family doesn't believe that. Ten years later, a clue is discovered. Will the case finally be solved? Spoiler alert: it is.
I was guessing who the killer was until the very end.
4 stars.
Ellie Mack, 16, disappears and ten years later, her family finally gets some closure, but not until after some unsettling findings.
4 stars.
Grace's adopted, teenage daughter is arrested for murder. Her mental condition, Dissociative Identity Disorder, makes her defense difficult.
4 stars.
Two true-crime stories. Non-fiction that reads like fiction.
5 stars.
Latest installment of the Women's Murder Club series. I can't call it bad, but it felt like a slog.
3 stars.
Audio. 16 hours.
Read by Kathleen Early
I have shied away from series books in the past, except for a notable few (Elm Creek Quilters, Alex Cross, Detective DD Warren), but I'm rethinking my position. I'm enjoying these Will Trent GBI novels.
Will and the GBI investigate when a retired cop is found dead in a basketball star's nightclub construction project.
4 stars.
Twin sisters have very different versions of the truth. But which is telling the truth?
5 stars.
Sisters Lily and Andrea are kidnapped, but only the body of Lily is found. What happened to Andrea? Is she dead or alive?
The story was interesting, but some of it was hard to swallow: Colleen being a genius artist at age 8 and the Native American mysterious Jay.
3 stars.
Audio. 13.25 hours.
Read by Richard Ferrone
Old cop shows new cop the ropes. The narrator was perfect for this.
4.5 stars.
Michael Bennett story, which was pretty good, except that the part about THE RUSSIAN seemed like maybe something they came up with for another book, but it didn't flesh out, so they just attached it to this story.
4 stars.
Audio. 7.5 hours.
Read by Tara Sands
Rory's husband turns out to be a jerk, she suffers, then she finds her way. The narrator added a lot to this story. She was great.
3.5 stars.
Audio. 11.5 hours.
Read by Susan Bennett
After years of having only a casual relationship, Quinn's sister shows up with a little girl in tow and asks her to keep the girl safe and hidden for a few days. Who is this girl and what danger is she in?
4 stars.
Jess cons her way into a psychological research study to make some extra money, but ends up with a lot more than she bargained for when she's chosen by the doctor for some special assignments.
3.5 stars.
Audio. 14.5 hours.
Read by Roger Clark
Retired Chicago police detective leaves it all behind and buys a small, ramshackled farm in Ireland. The town folks have secrets that Cal finds himself investigating.
4.5 stars. (Might have been 4 stars if I read it, but listening to the brogues of the townfolks adds a half star.)
When a polygamous husband is found murdered, all of his wives are under suspicion.
The plot was good and the peek into plural marriage was interesting, but I didn't really like any of the characters. Also, the utopian ending was too fantastical.
3 stars.
Did a mother walk away from her family, or did something more sinister happen? This story had my heart pounding.
4 stars.
New main character introduced: Frankie Elkin, middle-aged white woman who travels the country searching for missing persons that the world and the police have forgotten. I suspect Frankie will reappear in new books.
3.5 stars.
Audio. 18.5 hours.
Read by Kathleen Early
GBI agent Will Trent and ME Sara investigate a series of rape-murders.
4 stars.
When Lauren's DNA test reveals an unknown half sister, her whole family is thrown into chaos and old secrets are revealed.
4 stars.
Audio. 9.5 hours.
Read by Mike Chamberlain, Sophie Amoss, and Samatha Desz.
Who killed Chloe's husband? Her stepson? Her sister, the victim's first wife? Or did his death arise from his whistle-blowing with the FBI?
4 stars.
New to me author. I'll seek out more of her books.
Pregnant Joan lets her boyfriend talk her into leaving the big city to live in the small town where he grew up. But that small town has lots of secrets.
4.5 stars.
Logical Germaine loses her job and finds one answering a senior citizen helpline. She gets more than she bargained for though when the mayor assigns her a special project.
Lighthearted and fun.
5 stars.
Audio. 14.5 hours.
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Wow! This was an audio page turner. I got so much sewing done because I couldn't stop listening.
Michael comes home to find a dead woman in his bathtub. When he calls the police to report it, they arrest him, claiming he's the serial killer they've been tracking. Except he has no memory of any of it.
5 stars.
What will parents do to protect their child? And is history repeating itself?
A wealthy family has a history of throwing money around to make problems disappear.
4 stars.
Latest installment of the Alex Cross saga. Alex works on solving a series of rapes and murders in DC, while also hunting for whomever assassinated the VP's ex-wife and her new lover.
Vintage Patterson.
4 stars.
This could have been a 5 star book. The beginning started out great, very early Patterson-ish. Sadly, the protagonist turned out to be so aggressive and unlikable, that I had to subtract two stars, and considered even more.
Lucy is a midwife at a large Manhattan hospital where newborn babies have started to disappear.
Sadly, her character emerges as a bossy, ridiculously aggressive bitch. She's how I imagine good ol' boy rednecks see successful, uppity wimmen. Gross.
3 stars.
Audio. 8 hours.
Read by Val Toomey, George Newbern, Marin Ireland, and Joel Froomkin.
Dr. Statler goes missing the night of the big storm. Facts start to emerge that he may be missing intentionally, but his new wife doesn't believe it.
4 stars.
I'm sure I've read this before, but I couldn't find it in my blog and couldn't remember the ending, so I read it again.
Louise is caught up inside the disfunctional marriage of her new boss.
Must be willing to believe the unbelievable to enjoy.
3.5 stars.
High school girl is rescued from the river and can't remember how she got there. Oh, and the doctors estimate she was dead for 13 minutes while she was in there. Catty girls, bullying, unreliable narrator, what's not to love?
4 stars.
Bullying at a private all-girls school which results in the suicide attempt of a young student. Twist toward the end which I had suspected for a bit, but wasn't sure of until revealed.
5 stars.
