[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Book 5 in the DI Jack MacIntosh series, this was the first in this series that I had read, and I found it worked well as a stand-alone mystery. (A few blanks, though, would definitely have been filled in more fully with a reading of the entire…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 The fourth in the DS Nikita Parekh series, this book can be read as a standalone novel (although, in the case of this reader, there is an evolving backstory with Nikki’s family that is begging for more background. I will have to find a way to…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Murder, mayhem, and all-around almost gleeful nastiness make this book a fun and crazy read, deeply reminiscent of the hi-jinks found in the best of Elmore Leonard. When Goff Langdon, mystery bookstore owner, hangs out his shingle as a PI in rural Brunswick Maine, little does…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Incredibly engrossing - I pretty much read this one straight through. From the totally gripping introduction, through the twists and turns that fooled me (not once, but twice!), all the way to the climactic and satisfying ending, this is a great read that will see you through…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 DCI Evan Warlow - wait, make that ex-DCI Evan Warlow - has retired, at 50, and is planning to spend the rest of his days completing the renovation of his much-loved cottage, enjoying long walks on the Pembrokeshire coast of Wales, with his best-buddy-black-lab, Cadi. Nursing a…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️+ I adored this book. Quite simply, one the most enjoyable crime reads I have encountered. Set amongst the fjords, ferries, and dark spruce forests of Norway in the year 1987, this Scandinavian noir thriller, a gloriously-translated entry in the PI Varg Venum series, is an incredibly powerful…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 1/2 “Like the rest of her life, it was beautiful on the outside and chaos on the inside” Cressida Howard is a woman who appears to have it all. A beautiful (and smart) seventeen year old daughter, Emily-Jane, a rich and successful husband, Laurence, (an e-commerce kingpin)…
[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ My favorite kind of book - intense, suspenseful, an intriguing crime puzzle, and so many interesting characters - both the regulars in this outstanding detective series, and the villains, victims, red herrings, and “friendlies”, - so intertwined and carefully plotted that it requires best wits in an…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] Easily one of my all-time favorite detective series, Book 11 in the Simon Serrailler series, “A Change in Circumstance” is every bit as wonderfully engaging as its precedents. Detective Chief Superintendent Simon Serrailler, a complex man who is something of an emotional enigma, has an exceptionally close…
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ [responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] The gang is back - the second in the series featuring Clay Wolfe, Professional Investigator (because that happens to be what they call it in Maine); his partner, the beautiful and extremely capable Baylee; retired octogenarian and solicitor Gene, who also happens to be Clay’s Grandpops; and…