by Kenneth Oppel (Author), Robbie Daymond (Narrator), Listening Library (Publisher) An Audiobook Review INKLING, by Kenneth Oppel, is a very creative, exciting, and touching story about a … okay, you guessed it, a spot, or splot, of ink. But how can you make a story out of that? Oppel does it very well, just as in his wonderful space odysseys. He…
by Steve Watkins (Author) WOW! This kid’s action and history book by Steve Watkins is fascinating, exciting, AND well-researched. I lived through the Vietnam War years, but even I learned things in this middle-grade book I’d only heard hinted at before. The three friends, Anderson, Greg, and Julie, have a musical band and practice in Anderson’s uncle’s basement.…
by Victoria Tait (Author) What fun! Dotty and Keya are back in Victoria Tait‘s new cozy mystery, AN AUCTION OF SECRETS, and they both have new jobs! It looks like Dotty is moving into management at the antique house, and Keya now peers minutely at crime scene evidence instead of chasing the bad guys. (Okay, she fudges…
THE BOY ON THE BEACH by Mary Towne (Author) It’s August 1943, and while many of the Long Island neighborhood young men are fighting in WWII, the folks at home are battling a polio epidemic among their kids. It’s scary because no one knows how the horrible disease is contracted. A notion going around is that you…
by James Ponti (Author), Lisa Flanagan (Narrator), Simon & Schuster Audio (Publisher) James Ponti delivers another great City Spies mystery, set in Cairo this time. The team gets a 6th member, but is he good… or evil? Only time (and the next book) will tell. (The reader is pulled either way as the story progresses.) Meanwhile, the youngest team member,…
by Victoria Tait (Author) The Cotswolds, a picturesque cafe decorated for Christmas and wafting holiday aromas, friends and lovers, and a female police officer with a twisty tragic murder to solve…or maybe two. What more could you ask from a Cozy Festive Mystery? There is a lot of change brewing in book six. Police Sergeant Keya has…
by by Victoria Tait (Author) And so, the life and mysteries of Victoria Tait’s antique-specialist heroine, Dotty Sayers, continue in this merry holiday book, YULETIDE MARKET MURDER. Set in Leicestershire at a castle being refurbished into a boutique hotel, Dotty works her magic by buying just the perfect piece of furniture, decoration, or art for the project…
by Ashley Weaver (Author), Alison Larkin (Narrator), Dreamscape Media (Publisher) An Audiobook review Ashley Weaver‘s fourth Electra McDonnell mystery continues the espionage story set in London during WWII. It features the handsome Major Gabriel Ramsey and the wily, beautiful ex-cat burglar “Ellie” McDonnell. They always seem to defy capture and win the day, except “the day” is not over, and…
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 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…
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