Genre: Thriller

🎧 The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware @ruthwarewriter.bsky.social @theimogenchurch.bsky.social @simonaudio.bsky.social @thegallerypress.bsky.social #LoveAudiobooks @RuthWareWriter @ImogenChurch @ScoutPressBooks @GalleryBooks @SimonAudio

I always enjoy a Ruth Ware mystery thriller. The Woman in Suite 11 is a follow up on the Lo Blacklock character 10 years after the time in The Woman in Cabin 10. It’s better if you have read the first book but not absolutely necessary. In the interim, Lo has married Judah and they […]

Posted July 8, 2025 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 19 Comments

🎧 Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson #BenjaminStevenson #BartonWelch #HarperAudio‬‬ #LoveAudiobooks #KindleUnlimited @4saintjude

I might be showing my age here, but I normally mistrust analytical algorithms and AI-type thingys. (I am not a tech person, obviously.) I like to choose books based on personal recommendations and reviews (thanks Books of My Heart!) rather than what the library thinks I should read next. To be fair, it isn’t like […]

Posted July 4, 2025 by KC in Book Review / 3 Comments

🎧 Dead of Winter by Rebecca Zanetti @RebeccaZanetti #AvaFlynn @tantoraudio.bsky.social‬ #LoveAudiobooks @TantorAudio

I enjoy this author, although some of the stories don’t seem very realistic. The setup for Dead of Winter is promising. There are four brothers with military and wilderness experience. Their father died about a year ago but no one has been arrested. Since Olivia’s FBI boss was an old friend of the father, Hank, […]

Posted July 3, 2025 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 12 Comments

🎧 A Happy Marriage by AR Torre @alessandratorre4 #PaigeReisenfeld #CharlotteLobdell #JonathonDavis #BrillianceAudio #JIAM #LoveAudiobooks #KindleUnlimited🎧

A Happy Marriage sounded like an interesting setup with Dinah, a detective and her husband Joe, a psychiatrist. With the title, I thought it would have aspects of how they make their careers work and still keep a close relationship. They do that and are successful in their careers but that’s not this story. We […]

Posted June 28, 2025 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review, JIAM / 12 Comments

Thrifty Thursday: Audio Freebies #KateBold #StephanieKing-myers @authorterryo ‪@kelleyhazen.bsky.social‬ #MollyBlack #NinaBerault #ThriftyThursday #LoveAudiobooks #JIAM

The purpose of Thrifty Thursday is to read a book which was free (at some point). This is a collection of freebies I have read which are all audio books. Chirp freebie on April 25, 2025 (currently $1.99 at Chirp as of writing this post) Kindle freebie October 14, 2023. The ebook is free at […]

Posted June 19, 2025 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review, Thrifty Thursday / 14 Comments

🎧 Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds by Allison Brennan @Allison_Brennan #VanessaJohansson #HarlequinAudio #LoveAudiobooks #JIAM #JIAMAudiobookChallenge

Allision Brennan has been doing more stand alone mysteries. Beach Reads and Deadly Deeds has mysteries, a love of books, and a romance. The island setting is an amazing backdrop. Mia is a CPA taking a vacation before her promotion. Her dream is to run a bookstore, but she feels she needs the safe route […]

Posted June 17, 2025 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 22 Comments

🎧 King of Ashes by SA Cosby @blacktopkid.bsky.social @alazarrewhite @macmillanaudio.bsky.social #LoveAudiobooks #JIAM @blacklionking73 @MacmillanAudio

King of Ashes is very much in the style I expect from this author. That doesn’t mean it is predictable, just that it tells a gritty story of what things are really like for some people. Bad people trapping others through fear and intimidation into horrible acts and situations. The Carruthers family includes the father […]

Posted June 12, 2025 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 18 Comments

🎧 The Unquiet Grave by Dervla McTiernan @dervlamctiernan.bsky.social #AoifeMcMahon #BolindaAudio #LoveAudiobooks @DervlaMcTiernan

I am so happy to have another book in the Cormac Reilly series. Cormac is a homicide detective in Ireland and has been for 20 years. The Unquiet Grave brings us back to Cormac after he had some success after a horrible time in Good Turn. I feel so hurt on Cormac’s behalf. He works […]

Posted May 31, 2025 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 12 Comments

🎧The Dead Years by Jeffrey B. Burton #JeffreyBBurton #WillTulin @tantoraudio.bsky.social‬ #LoveAudiobooks

I read Burton‘s unrelated Mace Reid K-9 Mystery series and liked it. The Dead Years starts off the Chicago K-9 Thriller series which I think will be a bit better. We have a brother and sister team who lost their parents in a car crash. Crystal was old enough to assume a quasi parental role […]

Posted May 29, 2025 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review / 18 Comments

Sunday Series: Joe Pickett by CJ Box @cjboxauthor #DavidChandler @recordedbooks.bsky.social #LoveAudiobooks #LibraryLove #SIAM @RecordedBooks

I needed to figure out a way to start reading series where I am not current or the series is finished but haven’t read them yet. So it’s a way to commit myself to read my backlist, particularly series. I have been wanting to read the Joe Pickett series for awhile after reading […]

Posted May 4, 2025 by Anne - Books of My Heart in Book Review, Sunday Series / 10 Comments