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Title: Murder Below Montparnasse (Aimee Leduc Investigations #13) Author: Cara Black Read by: Madeleine Lambert Category: Mystery Audio published: March 19, 2013 by AudioG0 (First published March 15, 2013) Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository A long-lost Modigliani portrait, a grieving brother's blood vendetta, a Soviet secret that's been buried for 80 years--Parisian private investigator Aimee Leduc's current case is her most exciting one yet. The cobbled streets of Montparnasse might have been boho-chic in the 1920s, when artists, writers, and their muses drank absinthe and danced on cafe tables. But to Parisian private investigator Aimee Leduc, these streets hold darker secrets. When an old Russian man named Yuri hires Aimee to protect a priceless painting that just might be a Modigliani, she learns how deadly art theft can be. Yuri is found tortured to death in his atelier, and the painting is missing. Every time Aimee thinks she's found a new witness, the body count rises. What exactly is...

Title: Muppet Sherlock Holmes Author: Patrick Stork Illustrator: Amy Mebberson Category: Comic, Comedy Published: March 1, 2011 by BOOM Kids Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Amazon When you remove the impossible, whatever remains is still not guaranteed to make much sense. The Great Gonzo puts on Holmes' famous deerstalker to solve four seemingly unrelated cases with the help of his friends Dr. Watson (Fozzie) and Inspector LeStrade (Kermit). Who is the mysterious fello following them? Why does Miss Piggy keep switching roles? Where do socks come from? These questions and many more will be answered in Muppet Sherlock Holmes! I'm not actually participating in #comicsfebruary, but Muppet Sherlock Holmes has been sitting on my shelf for a couple of weeks and I finally got time to sit down and read it. People who know me, know that this book combines two of my favorite things - Holmes and the Muppets. It's a spoof of four of Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories: The Adventure of the Speckled Band, A...

Title: Fog City Strangler Author: Greg Messel Category: Mystery Published: December 16, 2013 by Sunbreaks Publishing Rating: DNF Add: Goodreads Purchase: Amazon | Book Depository As 1958 nears an end San Francisco is being terrorized by a man who calls himself the “Fog City Strangler,” who preys on pretty young blonde women. The strangler announces each murder by sending a note and piece of the victim’s clothing to the local newspapers. Angst mounts as the strangler continues to claim more victims. Private eye Sam Slater is worried that the Fog City Strangler may be eyeing his beautiful blonde wife, TWA stewardess Amelia Ryan. His anxiety is further fueled when TWA launches an advertising campaign with Amelia’s picture on a series of billboards plastered all over the city. Sam fears the billboards may attract too much attention--the wrong kind of attention. Meanwhile, Sam and Amelia are hired to try to find the missing daughter of a wealthy dowager who fears she has lost her only child. The missing woman went for a...

Title: Bad Wolf (Bodenstein & Kirchhoff #6) Author: Nele Neuhaus Translator: Steven T. Murray Read by: Robert Faas Category: Mystery Audio published: January 21, 2014 by Blackstone Audio Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository On a hot June day the body of a sixteen-year-old girl washes up on a river bank outside of Frankfurt. She has been brutally murdered, but no one comes forward with any information as to her identity. Even weeks later, the local police have not been able to find out who she is. Then a new case comes in: A popular TV reporter is attacked, raped, and locked in the trunk of her own car. She survives, barely, and is able to supply certain hints to the police, having to do with her recent investigations into a child welfare organization and the potential uncovering of a child pornography ring with members from the highest echelon of society. As the two cases collide, Inspectors Pia Kirchhoff and...

Title: The Black Song Inside Author: Carlyle Clark Category: Thriller Published: September 10, 2013 by Thomas & Mercer Rating: 3½ out of 5 Stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Amazon | Audible | Book Depository Atticus Wynn and Rosemary Sanchez, newly engaged private investigators, have seen the dark and violent side of life, but nothing has prepared them for an explosive murder investigation that threatens to tear their relationship apart. They struggle to solve a case that as a best result could leave them in prison or dead. Atticus's manipulative ex-girlfriend bursts back into their lives wielding a secret about Rosemary's family. She exploits the fact to force the couple into investigating the execution-style slaying of her lover. The case thrusts Atticus and Rosemary headlong into the world of human trafficking and drug smuggling, while rendering them pawns in Tijuana Cartel captain Armando Villanueva's bloody bid to take over the Cartel. The Black Song Inside is a vivid crime thriller rife with murder and madness, melded with gallows humor and...

Title: The Line (Witching Savannah #1) Author: J. D. Horn Category: Fantasy Published: February 1, 2014 by 47North Rating: 5 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Amazon | Audible | Book Depository Savannah is considered a Southern treasure, a city of beauty with a rich, colorful past. Some might even call it magical…To the uninitiated, Savannah shows only her bright face and genteel manner. Those who know her well, though, can see beyond her colonial trappings and small-city charm to a world where witchcraft is respected, Hoodoo is feared, and spirits linger. Mercy Taylor is all too familiar with the supernatural side of Savannah, being a member of the most powerful family of witches in the South.Despite being powerless herself, of course.Having grown up without magic of her own, in the shadow of her talented and charismatic twin sister, Mercy has always thought herself content. But when a series of mishaps—culminating in the death of the Taylor matriarch—leaves a vacuum in the mystical underpinnings of Savannah, she...