Lois Duncan is a brilliant author. In "Daughters of Eve" (audiobook format), she takes us into a school where the females tend to be passive. They were good little girls keeping their family’s secrets. Daughters of Eve was a national club for girls. Their leader/teacher,...

This is a review of the audiobook "Unsaid" by Neil Abramson, read by Angela Brazil. Like most veterinarians, Helena had euthanized animals to ease their suffering. When she felt an animal still had a quality of life and a future, she brought it home with...

It has been over a week since I listened to "Silver Girl" by Elin Hilderbrand, narrated by Janet Metzger and Marianne Fraulo. I waited on purpose so that the words would simmer within me. This is the tale of two women, friends since childhood, Connie...

In this 19th novel by Michael Connelly, Los Angeles lawyer Michael "Mickey" Haller returns to work after treatment for drug addiction. He inherits murdered trial lawyer Jerry Vincent's case loads, the most outstanding one being the double-homicide case against movie mogul Walter Elliot. Mickey finds...

Young, small town Vermont paramedic Peter Webster, or "Webster" as he's called, rescues drunken Sheila Arsenault from a car wreck and quickly falls madly in love with her. He is only 21, and she is twenty-four, a beautiful, hard-spoken girl from a tough town near...

In Still Life With Crows, we follow Pendergast’s investigation of several strange murders, all involving a cornfield in Kansas. The sheriff is none too happy to have Pendergast in town. However, the local newspaperman is thrilled, and hopes that by following Pendergast, he can get...

In The Ridge, we meet a variety of characters: Deputy Sheriff Kevin Kimble, a man in love with the woman who shot him; Audrey Clark, the keeper of sixty-seven large cats, including a rare black panther; Wyatt French, a peculiar man who keeps a light...

This review is on the unabridged audio book, Mayday by Nelson DeMille and Thomas Block. Supersonic jet, Flight 52, was on a routine flight to Japan when it was hit by a US Navy missile. The test missile hit the plane and went through the...

The Devil’s Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea is advertised as the story of 26 men who crossed the Mexican American border into the desert of Arizona to Devil’s Highway. Twenty six entered the desert, but only twelve came out alive. Urrea discussed...

Bulls Island by Dorothea Benton Frank Is the story of two people deeply in love but separated by a tragic event in their past. Twenty years ago Betts McGee left Charleston and took a secret with her; she never intended to return. That all changed...