The Dry by Jane Harper
I tend to be a speed reader to a fault – I know I miss stuff – but there are some audiobooks that really drive home why I am the way I am. Even at 1.25x speed, this one dragged. I did the last third or so at 1.5x which veered into chipmunk territory but it was necessary just to drag me to the finish line. It did not help matters that I google-spoiled the mystery for myself. Whoops? The book is set in drought-ridden, small-town Australia […]
Address to Die For (Maggie McDonald Mystery #1) by Mary Feliz
The first book in the Maggie McDonald Mystery series by Mary Feliz, Address to Die For, landed in my Kindle via a search for “cozy mystery” on the DC Public Library catalog. I was hoping to find a new series for my pandemic read-fest, and the Maggie McDonald books were well reviewed on both Goodreads and Amazon. The description sounded promisingly cozy, too: Maggie McDonald and her family move into a century-old house they recently inherited, where there’s an old barn out back, plenty of […]
Fool Moon: The Dresden Files, Book 2 by Jim Butcher
Back for another installment of The Dresden Files, as read to me by the impeccable James Marsters, aka, Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. If listening to him read is wrong than I don’t want to be right. He is so soothing in my airpods, just the perfect pandemic listen. He has just the right gravel in his voice to BE Harry Dresden, wizard detective, and the acting chops to make the other characters distinctive and interesting: all in all, a very solid audio performer. […]
The Last Flight by Julie Clark
In earlier reviews I warned you I am a domestic thriller junkie. So now you get to hear about The Last Flight. An abused wife fleeing her husband trades tickets with a stranger also fleeing her old life on a whim. The abused wife then watches with horror as the plane she was supposed to be on is reported crashed, with no survivors. She decides to step into the other woman’s life at the other end of the swapped flight and finds more then she […]
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Years ago, when it was first published, Gone Girl was my gate way drug into the world of domestic thrillers/noir. Now I read all of them, and have strong opinions on Gillian Flynn vs. Ruth Ware vs. Kubica, etc. But Gone Girl was my first. So recently, because I had never seen the movie and wanted to compare the two, I did a Gone Girl reread. Surprise, surprise it totally held up. There’s a reason all aspiring domestic/unreliable narrator/thrillers try to claim they are like […]
