by David Rosenfelt (Author), Grover Gardner (Narrator), Macmillan Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin OUTFOXED by David Rosenfelt is familiar and wonderful Andy Carpenter. I love this character, with his good heart and great defense lawyer skills and funny asides. His uber smart ex-cop wife, inquisitive son, Ricky, and collage of unusual (massive or nerdy) friends and helpers make…
by Steven Grzeszczak (Author) A Short Story Review by Jackie Houchin This story is billed as a complex mystery with a challenge to READERS to see if they can unravel the sparse details of a crime that is discussed by four friends at a restaurant… and solve it. These four friends meet once a year in…
by Steven Johnson (Author), Alan Sklar (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin Steven Johnson’s THE GHOST MAP is an amazing history about a disease, a doctor, and a parson who tracked, and eventually mapped the mass destruction that cholera brought to Victorian London in the 1850’s, and how, due to their persistence and that of a…
by Max Lucado (Author), Ben Holland (Narrator), Thomas Nelson (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin HE CHOSE THE NAILS WAS so enjoyable. The way Max Lucado spins stories illustrating each point he makes in Christ’s death and resurrection makes them so memorable. And he humbly shared his own mistakes and faith in the process. The sign – The King…
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…
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 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…
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