Emily Brightwell (Author), Jennifer M. Dixon (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin I enjoyed Mrs. Jeffries and the Silent Knight. The super-smart housekeeper and the staff of Inspector Witherspoon always help him solve the murder cases, but without him knowing it. The idea is clever and you DO feel sorry for the man, as kindly but…
by Tamera Alexander (Author), Devon O’Day (Narrator), Thomas Nelson (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin Christmas at Carnton is a heartwarming faith-based story set during the Civil War in the South (Tennessee). A desperate war widow with a young son and a baby on the way struggles to make her way. She has only a few days left…
by Victoria Tait (Author) A Book Review by Jackie Houchin Amateur sleuth, Dotty Sayers is developing quite nicely as an expert on antiques. She’s been employed by Akeman’s Antiques since her military husband died a short time ago. Her knowledge of valuable antiques, even antiquities, is growing from experience and the classes she’s taken. But her knowledge…
Melody Carlson (Author), Cecily White (Narrator), Vision Audiobooks LLC (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin The Christmas Joy Ride is another light, fun, heart-warming Christmas story by Melody Carlson. Thirty-something Miranda’s elderly neighbor, Joy (born on Christmas), wants to make one more trip in her RV down Route 66. She has sold her home in Chicago and is heading…
Melody Carlson (Author), Cecily White (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin The Christmas Blessing is another feel-good Christmas story by excellent writer, Melody Carlson. There is a sad beginning, a time of desperation, struggle, and loss when it feels like there’s no hope, and then a wonderful last-minute reprieve. This writer surely knows how to…
Melody Carlson (Author), Emily Durante (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin This is a feel-good, hopeful story that I loved. A sweet romance about a young widow, Wendy Harper, and her son returning to the cottage by the sea in Maine, where she spent idyllic summers with her grandparents. Now, it is hers, by inheritance,…
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by Grace Livingston Hill (Author), Susan O’Malley (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin Originally published in 1900 by Grace Livingston Hill and recorded in this century, A DAILY RATE has a timeless message of love for God and others shown in selfless service. It Is a story of a young girl who depends on…
by Melody Carlson (Author), Caitlin Kelly (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin CHRISTMAS AT HARRINGTON’S is a sweet, honest, feel-good book about an unfairly convicted woman, just released from her time in prison for a crime she didn’t do, facing a sometimes unforgiving world. Beaten down and nearly broke Lena Markham arrives into a town…
by Emily Brightwell (Author), Lindy Nettleton (Narrator) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin I enjoyed this book as the first in the series. I plan to read more so I wanted to see how it all began. The investigation of the murder of a dispicable doctor whom no one, and I mean NO ONE, likes has a surprise,…
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