By Dorothy Gilman (Author), Barbara Rosenblat (Narrator), Recorded Books (Publisher) An Audiobook Review Mrs. Pollifax on Safari is a totally fun, cozy mystery. It’s true, Mrs. Pollifax is a woman of a certain age, but a livelier character you couldn’t find. In this book she leaves her geraniums and volunteer hospital work to find an assassin in the dark…
By Lee Goldberg (Author), Angela Brazil (Narrator), Blackstone Audio, Inc. (Publisher) An audiobook review Two different Monks! I’d never read that Adrian Monk turned into “The Monkster” when he took his phobia-calming drug before flying. It was hilarious. It was also interesting to see how he solved murders as Mr. Monk, a consultant to the San Francisco Police Department, and…
By Victoria Tait (Author) After Dotty Sayers’ Christmas decor accomplishment and murder-solving adventure in Yorkshire, her “friend” Zach invites her to Northumberland to help him continue his family treasure hunt. Dotty has nothing better to do and is still not sure she wants to return to her home in the Cotswold yet, so she…
by Hope Callaghan (Author) What a hoot of a mystery story! Who knew that criminals could use Artificial Intelligence to promote a scam on Millie and her friends? Well they did, but, oh boy, did they NOT know Millie! Like a mama bear with her cubs in danger she leads her friends on the criminal’s…
by Audrey Alden (Author) I love cruising, so I read all the books I can that are set on cruise ships. DEAD MAN’S DISH is the first in a series by Audrey Alden, set in the present day. (Note the play-on-words with the main character’s last name, “Cruz.” Clever!) Rose Dela Cruz is a…
Benedict Brown (Author), George Blagden (Narrator), Heathdene Books (Publisher) An Audiobook Review I love Benedict Brown‘s Lord Edgington Investigates books, and have read (listened to) all of them to date. They are whodunnits, investigated by the 75-year-old, eccentric Marques of Edgington and his 18-year-old grandson. So fun! THE SNOWS OF WESTON MOOR (book 8) didn’t disappoint. There is an Agatha Christie-like…
By: Shelly Reuben,,Narrated by: Adams Morgan An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin ORIGIN AND CAUSE is an excellent read and very well written and narrated! The reader’s voice is as precise and distinct as the author’s clear and concise written words. Adams Morgan voices it with “class” as if by a very wealthy man’s very properly…
By Benedict Brown (Author), George Blagden (Narrator), Heathdene Books (Publisher) An Audiobook Review by Jackie Houchin What a great start to a fun and very unusual series. I loved the young boarding schoolboy Christopher (16) and his wonderful grandfather, Lord Edgington of Cranley Hall, set in Surrey, England. In this book, we meet them and learn of how their partnership into…
by Victoria Tait (Author) A Book Review by Jackie Houchin Dotty Sayers does it again in Scotland! Passing over the Cotswold’s and the world of antiques, Dotty flies from her 3-month stay in France to visit her parents in Edinburgh, unsure what her future will hold. While there and after some sightseeing, she inadvertently gets involved with a…
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