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The Maid

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Molly Gray is a charming “old soul”, someone we would likely recognize as on the autism spectrum were we to meet her, who lives her life by a closely-held moral code largely based on back-in-the-day wisdoms taught to her by her much-loved Gran. Abandoned as an…

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The Ex-Husband

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 A twisty and suspenseful tale, this story weaves around two main characters. Charlotte (Lola) Wilson, our narrator on this dark and winding road, is a complicated woman. A lover of luxury (and in particular, fabulous jewels), orphaned as a teen and estranged from her sole remaining (and…

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The Language of Food

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 “Why should a recipe book not be a thing of beauty?” Perhaps not such an outrageous concept - but in the year 1835, in a town such as Tonbridge, Kent, where poverty, disease and the harshness of scratching out a living can overwhelm much of the…

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Hangman’s end

[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…

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Blood Games

[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…

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Blind Man’s Labyrinth

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 What is “goodness” when everyone around you is “evil”? With a tone, a message, and a story, that feels remarkably authentic - heartbreaking, bloody, terrifying and poignant - set in an ancient and barbaric time of history, when war, conflict, hate, violence and religious tyranny reign supreme,…

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Below Torrential Hill

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 ➕ If the Earth itself (wait, make that the “Universe”) could write, this would be its creation. Deeply wise, there’s a core of truth captured with such aching beauty that the images, ideas, and feelings so seamlessly poured into this work surround you, in the manner of…

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Mainely Power

[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…

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That Certain Spark

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 Anyone who has been through a painful divorce, or a bad break-up, or really, faced any sort of momentous romantic rejection (and which of us hasn’t?) will relate to the main protagonist of this book, Claire Everett, and the emotional quandary she faces, heart-wrenchingly detailed in these…

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Finding Edith Pinsent

[responsivevoice_button buttontext=”Listen”] 🌟🌟🌟🌟 1/2 Who do we fall in love with, and why? A question no-one can really answer, least of all our two main protagonists, whose life stories criss-cross time and generations in this poignant and compelling story. Netta Wilde, a fifty-one year old divorced mother of two, has…

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