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Title: Trafficked: A Mex Anderson Novel

Author: Peg Brantley

Narrator: Sandra Murphy

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-12-18

Publisher: Peg Brantley

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Sex trafficking.

Not Thailand. Or the Philippines. Or Russia.

America.

Rich or poor, black or white, girls disappear across this country every day, pulled into the nightmarish world of prostitution and drugs.

Mex Anderson is back, tasked with finding three missing girls before it's too late. Three girls. Three girls who could live in your town, your neighborhood, or in your own home.

Jayla Imani Thomas is 15. A smart kid from a poor part of town who has to fend for herself. Jayla is headed for college and a better life than her mother had.

Alexis Emily Halston is 17. Money provides everything she wants or needs except functional parents. Alexis has the world by the tail and she knows it.

Olivia Emma Campbell is 12. She's a middle child who dreams of being a veterinarian when she grows up. But right now "Livvy" just wants someone to notice her, maybe even to love her.

Caught up in a cruel system fueled by lust and money, all three young women must find the courage within themselves to survive. And Mex must come to terms with his own loss and face his demons head on - or he might not have the strength to save them.

Members Reviews:

Sobering and Well Writen.

I feel like this book should be required reading for parents and teens. Although, at those age groups, the information gained by that would be too late for some. Trafficked is an eye-opening and sobering revelation of the activities that take place in Colorado and across the country and the world. it is a thoughtful read and as well as an excellent Listen by narrator Sandra Murphy.

Opened my eyes

wow, this book is good, a little scary to hear, it will open your eyes to somethings. The story was scary, but very good.! I would recommend this book!

Sandra did a great job reading this story to me!

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

one of those books you can't stop listening to

in the beginning I was a little bit skeptical about the book The float seemed very extreme but the book itself I don't know how to explain it it's like you take a breath in the beginning over the book and you exhale it only in the end the stories difficult it's not easy but it's a worth book to listen to I enjoyed it much more then I thought I would

I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review."

Great story bringing light to difficult subject matter....not to be ignored!

This story is very well written and well researched. It grabbed my attention from the very beginning and kept me listening to find out what would happen next. The author has done an excellent job tackling difficult subject matter and bringing attention to this growing epidemic. I really appreciated the facts and statistics at the beginning of each chapter. Although the narration isnt awful, its not the best either.....its just okay....Im not sure if it gets better s the story goes on or if I just got used to it, either way, it doesnt detract from the story. This one is a must listen! I received a review copy at my request and voluntarily reviewed.

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Title: Armed and Fabulous

Subtitle: Lexi Graves Mysteries, Book 1

Author: Camilla Chafer

Narrator: Vanessa Daniels

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-26-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 5 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

All Lexi wants to do is get through the day at her boring temp job with Green Hand Insurance. That's until she discovers the vice president, Martin Dean, in a pool of blood and herself at the center of an investigation into insurance fraud.

Millions of dollars are missing, the chief suspect is dead and her mysterious, sexy new boss is not what he seems.

Recruited by the joint task force working on the case, all Lexi has to do is work out who killed Dean and where the missing millions are. That's easier said than done when her sister insists upon the baby shower to end all baby showers, her wise-ass cop family just wants to keep her safe, someone keeps leaving her creepy gifts, and all the clues point to a seedy sex club on the wrong side of town.

As the bodies start to pile up, Lexi is on a race against time to find the killer and the money, before she's the next one in the murderer's sights.

Members Reviews:

Too Much Romance

I liked this book at first but as it went on there was just too much romance for me. I couldn't finish this book but for people who like romance it would be a good book.

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Title: The Body in the Casket

Subtitle: A Faith Fairchild Mystery

Author: Katherine Hall Page

Narrator: Tanya Eby

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 25 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-05-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 3.5 of 5 out of 10 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Even though resourceful caterer Faith Fairchild has called the sleepy Massachusetts village of Aleford home for most of her adult life, she isn't familiar with Havencrest, a privileged enclave, until the owner of Rowan House calls her about catering a weekend house party.

While discussing the lavish party he's planning for his 70th birthday, Max Dane - the legendary Broadway musical producer/director - makes a startling confession: "I didn't hire you for your cooking skills, fine as they may be, but for your sleuthing ability. You see, one of the guests wants to kill me."

Faith's only clue is an ominous birthday gift he received the week before - an empty casket sent anonymously containing a 20-year-old playbill from his last production, Heaven or Hell. Consequently, he has drawn his guest list for the party from its cast and crew, so Faith will have to keep one eye on the menu and the other on her host to prevent his birthday bash from becoming his final curtain.

Members Reviews:

Marvellous addition to the series

Best book yet! Please keep them coming.

The narration in the audio book is wonderful.

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Title: Night Fall

Subtitle: Booktrack Edition - A John Corey Novel, Book 3

Author: Nelson DeMille

Narrator: Scott Brick

Format: Unabridged

Length: 11 hrs and 54 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-28-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 23 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

It is dusk on July 17, 1996. A man and a woman who are married - but not to each other - make love on a Long Island beach as a video camera records their pleasure...and something more. Out over the ocean, TWA Flight 800 suddenly explodes with 230 victims on board, the terrible blast illuminating the sky. The government's verdict is mechanical failure. But the videotape may tell another story - if it can be found.

Now, on the fifth anniversary of the crash, two members of the Federal Anti-Terrorist Task Force set out to reopen the case: John Corey, an ex-NYPD detective, and his wife, Kate Mayfield, a career FBI agent. Together, they hunt for the crucial video...and race toward an elusive truth even more horrifying than the crash itself.

Members Reviews:

Where's the ending?

Enjoyed the story but was disappointed in ending,unless it was setting you up for another book continuing the story line.

Ending and audio

The story just ends!ends!

The audio is distracting,not necessary.

Scott Brick is all that you need to set the tone and mood.

the book just ended

Scott Brick is so funny love his narration. I would like a better ending to the book

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Title: Bad Blood

Subtitle: A Virgil Flowers Novel

Author: John Sandford

Narrator: Eric Conger

Format: Abridged

Length: 5 hrs and 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 11-09-17

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The brilliant new Virgil Flowers thriller from the number one New York Times best-selling author.

One late fall Sunday in Southern Minnesota, a farmer brings a load of soybeans to a local grain elevator - and a young man hits him on the head with a steel bar, drops him into the grain bin, waits until he's sure he's dead, and then calls the sheriff to report the "accident". Suspicious, the sheriff calls in Virgil Flowers, who quickly breaks the kid down...and the next day the boy's found hanging in his cell.

Remorse? Virgil isn't so sure, and as he investigates he begins to uncover a multigeneration, multifamily conspiracy - a series of crimes of such monstrosity that, though he's seen an awful lot in his life, even he has difficulty in comprehending it...and in figuring out what to do next.

Members Reviews:

Tough subject matter, but well told

This series continues to be very well written and highly engaging. However, this book has a disturbing amount of sexual abuse in it. It includes abuse of children.

Love this book!

Love this book!! Has to be the best Flowers book of them all. A start forward plot, but well filled out. Wonderful characters as usual. Sanford builds both very, very nicely. I love that reconceptualized section. What a laugh. I'm still smiling.

A very intense story.

I just started reading the Virgil Flowers series and finished this book this morning. It was the most intense so far. A subject nobody wants to even think exists let alone read the details. But Sandford handled the subject extremely well, giving the reader an understanding of the dark side of humans, raising anger and disgust, then giving you a sense of justice and victory. I won't forget this book for a long long time.

Another enjoyable Sanford read

The story line is very interesting, but disturbing.

Virgil is not growing

Virgil Flowers shows little growth over the last few books. His sexual conquests just come too easily. It's light fare and you expect these series to be formulaic but I'm not going any further, at least for awhile.

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Title: A Late Frost

Subtitle: An Orchard Mystery

Author: Sheila Connolly

Narrator: Marguerite Gavin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs

Language: English

Release date: 11-07-17

Publisher: Tantor Audio

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 28 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The usually quiet town of Granford, Massachusetts is even drowsier during the colder months. But this year it's in for a jolt when Monica Whitman moves into town. She's a dynamo who wants to make friends fast in her new home, and she throws herself into community activities. Meg Corey, now Chapin after her marriage to Seth Chapin, is intrigued by the new arrival, who has already sold the town board on a new, fun way to bring in visitors during the off-season: WinterFare, which will feature local foods (such as Meg's apples) and crafts, as well as entertainment.

Tragically, Monica falls ill and dies after the event in what looks like a case of food poisoning. When all the food served at WinterFare has been tested, including Meg's apples, it becomes clear that there's a more sinister explanation to the older woman's sudden demise.

Meg's investigation uncovers a bushel of potential suspects, one of whom is rotten to the core.

Members Reviews:

Favorite Author Does It Again!

Love the Story! Love the Characters! Perfect Narrator! Can't wait for the next book in this series and in Connolly's other series!

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Title: How the Finch Stole Christmas!

Author: Donna Andrews

Narrator: Bernadette Dunne

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-25-17

Publisher: Dreamscape Media, LLC

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 67 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Meg's husband has decided to escalate his one-man show of Dickens's A Christmas Carol into a full-scale production with a large cast including their sons Jamie and Josh as Tiny Tim and young Scrooge and Meg helping as stage manager.

When a famous, although slightly over-the-hill, actor comes to town to play the starring role of Scrooge, no one expects that he's bringing a lot of baggage and enemies with him.

Like Andrews' previous Christmas books Six Geese a-Slaying, Duck the Halls, and The Nightingale Before Christmas, How the Finch Stole Christmas! is guaranteed to put the ho ho hos into the holidays of cozy lovers everywhere with its gut-bustingly funny mystery.

Members Reviews:

O Gorgeous Bird

I look forward to each new Donna Andrews' book; Meg, Mom, etc. all have become part of the family. This one left me feeling that something, that I couldn't quite put my finger on, was missing.

I would give it 7 or 8 stars if I could

I love Meg and family. Really enjoyed this visit with the whole clan. Great mystery.

Best yet

Normally a delightful series, but has been becoming predictable. However, this one is terrific. May be the best one ever. Great plot, quirky characters, and interesting conclusion. If you only read one of these titles. Then this is definitely the one. Great narrator as well.

Murder amid theater and an animal rescue

Donna Andrews comes back strong with How the Finch Stole Christmas!, the 22nd book in Andrews's Meg Langslow series. In the previous Christmas books in this series, we have seen Michael, Meg's theater professor husband, perform a dramatic recitation of A Christmas Carol to raise money for the local book bank. This year, he has expanded the performance into a complete cast production that will raise money for many of the programs run by the city of Caerphilly, VA throughout the year. To create an even bigger draw than having Michael star as Scrooge, the city has hired a former star who hasn't had a successful acting job in ages due to his alcoholism. Michael soon gets really upset at the town because they let Haver, the actor, insert language into his contract that makes it virtually impossible to fire Haver, despite the fact that he misses rehearsals, hasn't learned his lines, and shows up to what rehearsals he does deem worthy of attending quite drunk. With Caerphilly's being such a small rural community where half the population is related to the Shiffley family, when Mayor Randall Shiffley orders that no one in the town allow Haver access to alcohol, everyone complies. Or almost everyone. Even more, the manager of the Caerphilly Inn goes through Haver's things and removes any alcohol the actor has gotten his hands on. But where has Haver been getting his alcohol?

Thus, in the hopes of locating Haver's "bootlegger," Meg tails after him to an almost-hidden house in the outskirts of town, where she sees him get what looks like a case of wine and not just a bottle. After waiting for Haver to get safely away, Meg prepares to return to town when she hears a growling. Concerned that she has just heard a tiger, Meg creeps up to the house, where she is alarmed to see an emaciated tiger, along with a lot of finches and litters of golden retriever puppies with their mothers in what obviously is a puppy mill.

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Title: Odd Child Out

Author: Gilly Macmillan

Narrator: Peter Noble

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 52 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-03-17

Publisher: Hachette Audio

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 25 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The international best-selling author of What She Knew and The Perfect Girl returns with a whip-smart DI Jim Clemo crime thriller about buried secrets and how the truth will always hurt. For fans of Susie Steiner and Sarah Hilary.

Two best friends. One terrible event.

Abdi Mahal and Noah Sadler have been inseparable since they met. They've stuck together, even when their peers have excluded them. But when a horrifying incident leaves Noah in a coma and fighting for his life, Abdi is too traumatised to say anything about what happened.

DI Jim Clemo, freshly returned to work after an enforced leave of absence, is tasked to investigate. And against a backdrop of a city where racial tensions are running high, he must determine what really happened to drive two teenage boys into a situation so desperate. Everything rests on one of the boys talking. But one can't talk. And one won't.

Members Reviews:

Great story, suspenseful.

I really liked this book. I read her first book and was very entertained. I was happy to see she had written 2 others, And even happier, I've been enjoying the series of Jim Clemo, DI very much and will be looking forward to experiencing more of Ms. MacMillan's talent in the future.

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Title: The Monet Murders

Subtitle: The Art of Murder, Book 2

Author: Josh Lanyon

Narrator: Kale Williams

Format: Unabridged

Length: 8 hrs and 57 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-20-17

Publisher: JustJoshin Publishing, Inc.

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 115 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Jason West and Sam Kennedy are back!

All those late night conversations when Sam had maybe a drink too many or Jason was half falling asleep. All those playful, provocative comments about what they'd do when they finally met up again.

Well, here they were.

The last thing Jason West, an ambitious young FBI Special Agent with the Art Crimes Team, wants - or needs - is his uncertain and unacknowledged romantic relationship with irascible legendary Behavioral Analysis Unit Chief Sam Kennedy.

And it's starting to feel like Sam is not thrilled with the idea either.

But personal feelings must be put aside when Sam requests Jason's help to catch a deranged killer targeting wealthy, upscale art collectors. A killer whose calling card is a series of grotesque paintings depicting the murders.

Members Reviews:

Decent, but a missed opportunity for better

This is an okay listen that never lived up to its full potential. I appreciate male to male romance fiction that does not fit an overused pattern of being written as if it were a female romance bodice-ripper. I have three Josh Lanyon books in my library and I appreciate how this author writes stories about people who are doing things in the world and also happen to have a gay relationship to nurture or not, as the case may be.

I really enjoyed the mystery narritive of the story. What was problematic for me this time was the personal relationship between the two main characters and how that relationship was explained to us. Josh Lanyon is a female author who I think tries to provide a more realistic view of the male psyche and then many of her male to male romance female contemporaries.

Nonetheless, she can slip into using a cliched and hackneyed form of presenting male characters in a way that would be most pleasing to female readers and not actually indicative of the male emotional behavior. It can be a subtle difference but a difference there is. In the Lanyon books I have read, she certainly likes to have a "daddy" cop in the mix. As often as not, those characters are a bit stiff, and not in the more useful way.

And then there is Jason the main character, whom I really like. However, if I were an FBI agent I would want him nowhere near any important action I was involved with. Law enforcement officers, from the federal level all the way down, all have the same protocols for discharging firearms. In the climatic scene, special agent Jason violates that protocol in such a way that I would imagine an after-action review would see him benched - possibly for good. This was not done to show any inner turmoil on his part, but in order to make the scene evolve in a way that was more productive for the author. This choice took me out of the headspace of what had been a fairly well written scene.

And finally there is the narrator. The guy has got a perfectly fine voice which I would otherwise really enjoy listening to. However, he chooses to pop the last consonant of almost every word he says - even soft consonants like m or n. I never got used to it and fact found it highly distracting since it is an affectation used by Clint Eastwood, particularly in his Dirty Harry roles.

Great Book

Josh Lanyon is in fine form. Its a good mystery and he wrote with the confidence to leave loose ends.

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Title: For the Birds

Subtitle: Rose Gardner Investigations, Book Two

Author: Denise Grover Swank

Narrator: Shannon McManus

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-25-17

Publisher: Bramagioia Enterprises

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 58 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Audiobook two in the New York Times and USA Today best-selling Rose Gardner Investigations series.

Rose Gardner is trying to build a new normal. One that leaves the Fenton County crime world - including James "Skeeter" Malcolm, the current king - behind. Her best friend and roommate is a big part of that effort, but Neely Kate is busy building her own life anew. She disappeared for a few days, scaring the spit out of Rose - which is why Rose finds it impossible to deny her when she suggests they look for a missing parrot. Only this time Neely Kate isn't interested in the reward money - she's set them up to work with a cranky private investigator known as Kermit the Hermit. Rose sees it for what it is: another bid for them to become private investigators.

If nothing else, it's a good distraction - until one of James's nemeses, Buck Reynolds, comes calling for help. James' brother has gone missing, and Wagner is number one on the crime king's suspect list. Only, according to him, he's innocent.

Rose had promised herself she was through with the crime world, but she wants to see James' brother safe. Besides, can she really say no when she might be the only one who can keep order in the county?

Listening order:

Family Jewels

Trailer Trash (Neely Kate Mystery #1)

For the Birds

In High Cotton (Neely Kate Mystery #2)

Members Reviews:

The Best Yet!

I love all these characters so much, and the story keeps getting better and better! This one felt more intense than all those that have come before, and it even brought on some tears. This has been my favorite so far. Can't wait for the next one!

Fantastic

Really really good! My favorite Rose so far. Can't wait for the next book to come out.