We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

 Audio.  10.5 hours.

Duchess, 13, has to parent both her mother and her younger brother, Robin.  When her mother is murdered, Duchess and Robin are sent to live with an unknown grandfather who is also murdered, possibly by the same man?  

4 stars.

The Last Word by Taylor Adams

 Audio.  10 hours.

Read by Carlotta Brentan.

Emma Carpenter takes a house sitting job on a deserted beach while grieving the death of her daughter.  Along the way, she angers an author with an online one-star review.  Now she'a being terrorized as the crazed author tries to kill her.  

Very unbelievable.

2 stars.

The Adjunct by Maria Adelmann

Audio.  10.5 hours.

Read by Suehyla El Attar-Young.

Sam is an adjunct professor at two Baltimore Colleges and still can't make ends meet.  I hope this is an exaggeration of life as an adjunct because it was a really sad story of how little they're paid after spending so much money to get a PhD.

4 stars.