by Sharon Marchisello (Author), Ann Flandermeyer (Narrator), Milford House (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin A missing person, greed, extortion, murder, and tortoise-napping…. whoa! This book is full of secrets, has action, suspense, and a touch of “hot” romance. Giovanna Rogers is a persistant and fearless protagonist on a cruise with her grandmother to “catch her breath,” when things…
by Jude Mason (Narrator), Sarah Ladd (Author), Thomas Nelson (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin Camille Iverness is the Curiosity Shop Keeper, along with her disreputable father who supplies the shop with the trinkets and treasures it sells. Where he gets these items is anyone’s guess. Camille runs the shabby shop’s front desk and keeps the ledger while her…
by Spencer Quinn (Author), Jim Frangione (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) An Audiobook (MINI) Review by Jackie Houchin HEART OF BARKNESS features great writing in a great mystery story. And super fantastic narration by Jim Frangione to boot!! (He actually “makes” it the best.) Spencer Quinn has put country western music at the heart of this story plus a…
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I don’t know about you, but I have too many books on my TBR stack but instead of reading them, I just keep adding more. I can’t help it. Often I buy books because I’ve read a tantalizing review or it’s a recommendation from a bookseller or I…
by Tea Cooper (Author), Casey Withoos (Narrator), Thomas Nelson (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin THE GIRL IN THE PAINTING by Tea Cooper is a wondrous historical fiction novel set in Australia. Brother and sister travel from England to Australia in the late 1800’s to join their parents who emigrated from Ireland first to establish a new home for…
by Victoria Tait (Author) A Book Review by Jackie Houchin What a superb wrap up to Victoria Tait’s six book British Antique Mystery series! Although the author promises more of Dotty Sayers, PRICELESS BETRAYAL completes a character and mystery ark in her heroine’s life. The story picks up in a tense situation as Dotty is stopped…
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By Guest blogger/author Naomi Hirahara Artificial intelligence, especially ChatGPT, is on people’s minds these days. ChatGPT is developed through OpenAI, a company Elon Musk co-founded with a controlling and growing investment by Microsoft, which is beta-testing artificial intelligence in its search engine, bing. Instead of doing a simple…
By by Katie Gayle (Author) A Book Review by Jackie Houchin Katie Gayle has brought back her sixty-something recently single and very clever sleuth, Sarah Byrd with her rambunctious chocolate Labrador, Jake. Many of the characters in the Cotswolds town of Barrywick have returned too, including Tabitha her library friend and Sean, the handsome doctor, who looks like…
by Charles Todd (Author), Simon Prebble (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin A bizarre set of murders unfolds in Yorkshire after a creepily clothed corpse with a book on alchemy at his feet is found in the ruins of an abbey. There is a lot of misdirection at first which the local policeman advances due to…
by AJ Pearce (Author), Anna Popplewell (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin I very much enjoyed this historical novel set in the middle of WWII in Great Britain. DEAR MRS. BIRD is about the war efforts that those at home took part in to support the soldiers and sailors – often some of their own…
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