Genre: Mystery

🎧 The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson @PeterSwanson3 #KeithSzarabaijka #KathleenEarly #HelenLaser @MickyShiloah ‏‏@HarperAudio #LoveAudiobooks‏

🎧 The Kind Worth Saving by Peter Swanson @PeterSwanson3 #KeithSzarabaijka #KathleenEarly #HelenLaser @MickyShiloah ‏‏@HarperAudio #LoveAudiobooks‏

The Kind Worth Saving is the second in the series.  I actually also got the first book The Kind Worth Killing at the library. The books are almost 8 years apart.  The characters who are carried over to this book are Henry Kimball and Lily Kintner. Henry Kimball is no longer a police detective.  He […]

Posted March 26, 2023 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 0 Comments

Thrifty Thursday : Journalist edition @MadamWillowRose ‏ #MichaelMaxwell @TarahBenner #KJKalis #ThriftyThursday

Thrifty Thursday : Journalist edition @MadamWillowRose ‏ #MichaelMaxwell  @TarahBenner #KJKalis #ThriftyThursday

The purpose of Thrifty Thursday is to read a book which was free (at some point). Kindle freebie on June 28, 2022  (currently $4.99 and in Kindle Unlimited as of writing this post) Overall rating 3.98 with 4,259 ratings and 376 reviews     Interesting premise to start to a story. A somewhat famous journalist […]

🎧 I Will Find You by Harlan Coben @HarlanCoben @GrandCentralPub #StevenWeber #BrillianceAudio #LoveAudiobooks

🎧 I Will Find You by Harlan Coben @HarlanCoben @GrandCentralPub #StevenWeber #BrillianceAudio #LoveAudiobooks

I’m a fan of Harlan Coben and his books.  I have read both series and standalones.  The character development as usual is very well done and it easily feels like these could be real people.  They have depth in their flaws, and their wants and needs, their rationalizations and dreams. The primary character is David.  […]

Posted March 14, 2023 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 24 Comments

🎧 A Tempest at Sea by Sherry Thomas @sherrythomas ‏@BerkleyPub @KateReadingVO ‏@PRHAudio ‏#LoveAudiobooks

🎧  A Tempest at Sea by Sherry Thomas @sherrythomas ‏@BerkleyPub @KateReadingVO ‏@PRHAudio ‏#LoveAudiobooks

Everything at this point is a spoiler for earlier books in the Lady Sherlock series. I would read this series in order because the complexity of the characters and relationships which are just as important as the particular cases.  In Miss Moriarty, I Presume? Charlotte ends up faking her death to throw Moriarty off her […]

Posted March 9, 2023 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 24 Comments

🎧 The Maid’s Diary by Loreth Anne White @Loreth @JaneOppenheimer #BrillianceAudio ‏#LoveAudiobooks #KindleUnlimited

🎧  The Maid’s Diary by Loreth Anne White @Loreth @JaneOppenheimer #BrillianceAudio ‏#LoveAudiobooks #KindleUnlimited

Here are your unlikeable characters where it is hard to know who to champion.  The Maid’s Diary spends more time in the character’s heads than with dialogue.  We have the points of view of Kit Darling, the maid,  the elderly woman next door,  Mal, the police detective, Daisy, the pregnant wife, and John, the husband.  […]

Posted March 7, 2023 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 28 Comments

Standing Dead by Margaret Mizushima & What Have We Done by Alex Finlay @margmizu @crookedlanebks #AlexFinlay @MinotaurBooks

Standing Dead by Margaret Mizushima &  What Have We Done by Alex Finlay @margmizu @crookedlanebks #AlexFinlay @MinotaurBooks

Mattie’s family issues come to a head in Standing Dead.  She has her sister and grandmother and knows more truth about her parentage and history.  She and her sister go to Mexico to find their mother but she and her new husband have fled.  Mattie returns home and the hits just keep happening. I love […]

Posted March 4, 2023 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 16 Comments