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Divorce Can Be Deadly
- Dr. Benjamin Bones Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Emma Jameson
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
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Divorce Can Be Deadly is the long-awaited second book in Emma Jameson's wartime cozy mystery series. Return to Birdswing, a tiny Cornish village, in the bitter winter of 1939 and revisit old friends as they embark on more amateur sleuthing. Irrepressible Lady Juliet is taking a correspondence course in private detection and is vexed by the return of her soon-to-be ex-husband. Meanwhile, not only has Ben failed to realize the depth of her feelings for him, but his obsession with Lucy, the Fenton House ghost, grows stronger.
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Absolutely charming!
- By Amazon Customer on 03-18-17
- Divorce Can Be Deadly
- Dr. Benjamin Bones Mysteries, Book 2
- By: Emma Jameson
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Awful.
Reviewed: 01-31-23
I read for entertainment. I enjoy stories where characters face challenges. I deplore situations where characters — usually women — are blackmailed into terrible decisions “for the greater good.” This is book two of what could have been a superb mystery series. I will not finish this book or read any others that follow it.
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Murder in G Major
- By: Alexia Gordon
- Narrated by: Jessica Carroll
- Length: 8 hrs and 9 mins
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With few other options, African American classical musician Gethsemane Brown accepts a less-than-ideal position turning a group of rowdy schoolboys into an award-winning orchestra. Stranded without luggage or money in the Irish countryside, she figures any job is better than none. The perk? Housesitting a lovely cliffside cottage. The catch? The ghost of the cottage's murdered owner haunts the place.
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Weird Casting
- By Jennifer on 11-05-19
- Murder in G Major
- By: Alexia Gordon
- Narrated by: Jessica Carroll
Not for Adults
Reviewed: 11-28-22
But maybe teenagers would enjoy this. Cosy mysteries should not be the same as young adult.
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A Treacherous Trade
- A Fiona Mahoney Mystery, Book 2
- By: Kerrigan Byrne
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen, John Hartley
- Length: 10 hrs and 20 mins
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Fiona Mahoney stands in the ashes of her hopes, facing her tempting adversary, Inspector Grayson Croft. Her sins are about to spill from her lips, when he says the one thing that could dispel all thoughts of revelation or redemption. Someone is leaving the corpses on London's cobbled streets, and a name is being whispered in the fearful shadows. The name, against which Fiona would sell her very soul for vengeance: Jack the Ripper. Old enemies and new friends join Fiona, as she chases a relentless evil through the streets of Victorian London.
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BRING BACK JUSTINE EYRE!!!
- By Sarah F. on 03-25-22
- A Treacherous Trade
- A Fiona Mahoney Mystery, Book 2
- By: Kerrigan Byrne
- Narrated by: Sarah Mollo-Christensen, John Hartley
A Good Story But…
Reviewed: 06-01-22
… the worst audio production quality I’ve ever endured. And I listen to four or five books a week.
At the beginning of the book, the male character voices were muffled and very quiet. Combined with the book’s portrayal of some male characters, it felt like I was listening to a nasty phone call.
Either the male voices got louder or the book’s mystery hooked me because I toughed it out to the end.
I’m glad I did. The themes presented were worth consideration.
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Mornings on Main
- A Small-Town Texas Novel
- By: Jodi Thomas
- Narrated by: Jeanine Bartel
- Length: 8 hrs and 44 mins
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When Jillian James lands in the small town Texas community of Laurel Springs, she's definitely not planning to stay. Connor Larady is a single dad, and the only one caring for his grandmother, Eugenia, who has Alzheimer's. And now he has to close Eugenia's quilt shop. When Connor meets down-on-her-luck Jillian, he's out of options. Can he trust the newcomer to do right by his grandmother's legacy? Jillian is done with relationships. But as she grows closer to Connor and Eugenia, she must consider giving up her nomadic life for a future with those who need her.
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good book needs a second chapter
- By TeresaRoq on 09-23-24
- Mornings on Main
- A Small-Town Texas Novel
- By: Jodi Thomas
- Narrated by: Jeanine Bartel
Poor Engineering?
Reviewed: 01-18-22
Great book. Good enough characterizations. Awful sound quality. Too bad when poor engineering ruins a listening experience.
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Treasure of Saint-Lazare
- By: John Pearce
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
- Length: 8 hrs and 35 mins
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An old lover brings a cryptic letter to Paris, pulling Eddie Grant reluctantly into a treacherous web of intrigue and death - but giving him a slim chance to find the terrorists who murdered his family seven years before. It launches him on a dangerous quest through Paris and the Loire Valley for the most valuable piece of Nazi loot that remains missing, a famous Raphael self-portrait from the early 16th century, along with the crates of Nazi bullion that accompanied it.
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robotic performance
- By Kari C. on 09-22-20
- Treasure of Saint-Lazare
- By: John Pearce
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell
Plodding
Reviewed: 09-02-20
After a good “hook” this slowed to a crawl. A long description of an action sequence. And when that slowed, some sex scenes. Then a dull and overly detailed side journey to Nazi Poland followed by more stalling. Was this an attempt to build suspense? to include all of the author’s research? Eventually the story comes to an end. Thank heavens. Also - “narrator” voice sounded robotic and last half had “scratches” in the audio.
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A Treacherous Performance
- Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, Book 5
- By: Lynn Messina
- Narrated by: Jill Smith
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Having inexplicably nabbed the duke of Kesgrave, 26-year-old spinster Beatrice Hyde-Clare is determined to marry him at once, and no amount of hand-wringing from anxious family members, worried friends, and well-meaning acquaintances will convince her to delay. Except, maybe, she is a little swayed by her uncle’s efforts to make amends for treating her with cold indifference during her childhood.
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OH MY HEART!!
- By Analese on 04-04-20
- A Treacherous Performance
- Beatrice Hyde-Clare Mysteries, Book 5
- By: Lynn Messina
- Narrated by: Jill Smith
Not up to the usual standards
Reviewed: 06-02-20
This adventure started off well but took a wrong turn when the story went to the theater. Dull, dull, dull.
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Holy Envy
- Finding God in the Faith of Others
- By: Barbara Brown Taylor
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
- Length: 7 hrs and 26 mins
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The renowned and beloved New York Times best-selling author of An Altar in the World and Learning to Walk in the Dark recounts her moving discoveries of finding the sacred in unexpected places while teaching the world’s religions to undergraduates in rural Georgia, revealing how God delights in confounding our expectations.
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Narrator’s use of a “Southern Accent” was extremely distracting
- By Mary Pat on 03-13-19
- Holy Envy
- Finding God in the Faith of Others
- By: Barbara Brown Taylor
- Narrated by: Hillary Huber
Insightful
Reviewed: 04-30-19
I loved everything about this book, especially the author’s honesty. She explained her spiritual questioning and journey eloquently. Her insights into the worlds’s major religions were eye-opening. Her point of view on Bible stories was unique. I would love to return to college just to take her class!
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Bellewether
- By: Susanna Kearsley
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Megan Tusing
- Length: 13 hrs and 38 mins
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It's late summer, war is raging, and families are torn apart by divided loyalties and deadly secrets. In this complex and dangerous time, a young French Canadian lieutenant is captured and billeted with a Long Island family, an unwilling and unwelcome guest. As he begins to pitch in with the never-ending household tasks and farm chores, Jean-Philippe de Sabran finds himself drawn to the daughter of the house. Slowly, Lydia Wilde comes to lean on Jean-Philippe, true soldier and gentleman, until their lives become inextricably intertwined.
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Another great Susanna story!
- By Meg on 12-15-18
- Bellewether
- By: Susanna Kearsley
- Narrated by: Tim Campbell, Sarah Mollo-Christensen, Megan Tusing
Wow!
Reviewed: 12-08-18
I’ve read many “set in history and set in the present” mysteries before, but none as beautifully layered and detailed as this. The characters are especially well written, each in the middle of complex circumstances with difficult choices to make, each with an awakening realization that their choices will affect many lives. A WONDERFUL read!
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The Weight of Ink
- By: Rachel Kadish
- Narrated by: Corrie James
- Length: 23 hrs and 19 mins
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Set in the London of the 1660s and of the early 21st century, The Weight of Ink is the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, an emigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city, and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. As the novel opens, Helen has been summoned by a former student to view a cache of 17th-century Jewish documents newly discovered in his home during a renovation.
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Compelling characters question life choices, ethics, religious rules, love and desire
- By CHRISTINE on 11-02-17
- The Weight of Ink
- By: Rachel Kadish
- Narrated by: Corrie James
Brilliant!
Reviewed: 08-05-18
This is what all historical fiction should be. Rachel Kaddish’s characters, both historical and modern, are so fully drawn that it is impossible not to be completely enthralled by their stories. Their stories, spanning generations and continents, twist and turn through the mundane dilemmas of life as well as the most difficult questions that have challenged mankind for centuries. “The Weight of Ink” is a masterpiece.
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The Good Fight
- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
- Length: 7 hrs and 59 mins
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The daughter and granddaughter of prominent Manhattan lawyers, Meredith McKenzie is destined for the best of everything: top schools, elite social circles, the perfect marriage. Spending her childhood in Germany as her father prosecutes Nazi war criminals at the Nuremberg trials, Meredith soaks up the conflict between good and evil as it plays out in real time. When her family returns to the United States, she begins blazing her own trail, swimming against the tides, spurred on by her freethinking liberal grandfather, determined to become a lawyer despite her traditional, conservative father's objections.
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good book, but....
- By Maria Marks on 07-13-18
- The Good Fight
- By: Danielle Steel
- Narrated by: Dan John Miller
A novel or a report?
Reviewed: 07-19-18
It wasn’t until the last quarter of the book that I felt I was reading a novel — not a historical report. It was interesting but had no spark. Eventually the details and emotions of Mary’s life and work emerged and the book became a novel.
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