PIT PONY by Joyce Barkhouse & THE MEMORY CHAIR by Susan White, PIT PONY is set on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia in a coal-mining town in the early 1900s before automation. The men in families were miners and “owed their souls to the Company Store.” Coal mining was a brutal job, especially…
by James Ponti (Author), Brian Holden (Narrator), Tantor Audio (Publisher) An Audiobook I loved Framed. It’s perfect reading for middle schoolers or older. It has adventure, danger, good thinking, friendship, and a few wild mysteries. Author James Ponti writes one of my other favorite series and he knows how to tell stories that kids love. Can a 12-year-old…
by Hope Callaghan (Author) Since I love cruising, I enjoy Hope Callaghan‘s Millie’s Cruise Ship mysteries. I’ve followed Millie through the Caribbean, to Great Britain, and now into Alaska. I’ve seen why she joined the crew in her first book, then met and married the Siren of the Seas captain, and now has become the Cruise…
by J. Michael Orenduff (Author), Austin Rising (Narrator), Audible Studios (Publisher) An Audiobook There is always a lot of talking in J. Michael Orenduff’s books. Still, the conversations, usually between Hubie and his sarcastic but true friend, Suzanna, are humorous and often educational as they discuss life and the ridiculous situations Hubie gets himself into. I think discussing his problems…
by JJ Marsh (Author, Publisher), Jill Prewett (Narrator) An Audiobook Two octogenarian ladies from the nearby cruise ship are picnicking on a hillside above the bay on a beautiful Greek island. One of them is gazing through the viewfinder of her camera, using it as a “spyglass.” She sees an older woman, one from their group on…
by Alan Bradley (Author), Jayne Entwistle (Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher) Audiobook Review So many people have heard of Alan Bradley‘s fabulous Flavia mysteries that I hardly have to describe them. I have read many of them out of order, but now I’m trying to fill in the spaces of the unread, so I can go on to his newest…
by Agatha Christie (Author), Anna Massey (Narrator), HarperAudio (Publisher) Audiobook Review I’ve never read an Agatha Christie Poirot mystery written in such a way with a female telling the story instead of Hastings or Poirot himself. In MURDER IN MESOPOTAMIA, a nurse, Amy Leatheran, is charged with writing up the account of this very perplexing murder from her own…
by Victoria Tait (Author) Although this cozy mystery is listed as a Dotty Sayers Antique mystery, author Victoria Tait has combined two of her series’ characters in this book. Dotty, returning from antique work in other parts of the country, has only recently settled down again in the Cotswolds to open her own shop. Sergeant Keya Varma…
by Creston Mapes (Author), Drew Bott (Narrator), Rooftop Press (Publisher) An Audiobook “Little do they know, I can hear and see everything” is how this tragic, hopeful, and very suspenseful book begins. Creston Mapes writes I AM IN HERE with several POVs (points of view), but the main characters are Hale, 18 years old and presumed brain-dead from a…
by Sara E. Johnson (Author), Sarah Naughton (Narrator), Dreamscape Media, LLC (Publisher) An Audiobook Review The Bones Remember is another fascinating, suspenseful adventure into the wild parts of New Zealand with forensic “teeth” specialist Alexa Glock. She’s an American on a work visa stationed at a forensics lab in Auckland. She is called out to a remote island to identify…
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