Audiobook Review: Gone Missing by Linda Castillo

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Title: Gone Missing (Kate Burkholder #4) Author: Linda Castillo Read by: Kathleen McInerney Category: Mystery Audio published: June 19, 2012 by Macmillan Audio Rating: 2½ out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository Rumspringa is the time when Amish teens are allowed to experience life without the rules. It’s an exciting time of personal discovery and growth before committing to the church. But when a young teen disappears without a trace, the carefree fun comes to an abrupt and sinister end, and fear spreads through the community like a contagion. A missing child is a nightmare to all parents, and never more so than in the Amish community, where family ties run deep. When the search for the presumed runaway turns up a dead body, the case quickly becomes a murder investigation. And chief of Police Kate Burkholder knows that in order to solve this case she will have to call upon everything she has to give not only as a cop, but as a woman...
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Review: The Lost Girls of Rome by Donato Carrisi

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Title: The Lost Girls of Rome Author: Donato Carrisi Category: Mystery Published: November 19, 2013 by Mulholland Books (first published 2011) Rating: 2½ out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Amazon | Audible | Book Depository A grieving young widow, seeking answers to her husband's death, becomes entangled in an investigation steeped in the darkest mysteries of Rome. Sandra Vega, a forensic analyst with the Roman police department, mourns deeply for a marriage that ended too soon. A few months ago, in the dead of night, her husband, an up-and-coming journalist, plunged to his death at the top of a high-rise construction site. The police ruled it an accident. Sandra is convinced it was anything but. Launching her own inquiries, Sandra finds herself on a dangerous trail, working the same case that she is convinced led to her husband's murder. An investigation which is deeply entwined with a series of disappearances that has swept the city, and brings Sandra ever closer to a centuries-old secret society that will do anything to stay in the shadows. I...
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Audiobook Review: First Time Killer by Zak Allen

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Title: First Time Killer Author: Alan Orloff writing as Zak Allen Read by: Bob Dunsworth Category: Mystery Published: January 2, 2012 Audio published: July 9, 2013 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon In shock radio, nothing is too far over-the-top in the pursuit of ratings. Not even murder. During his twenty-six-year career, D.C. radio talk show host Rick Jennings steered clear of outrageous radio. Wasn’t his thing. So when WTLK execs tap him for the Afternoon Circus to land a lucrative satellite deal, Rick struggles to maintain his standards — and his dignity. A chilling call (“I’m a long-time listener, first time KILLER.”) leads to the discovery of an intern’s arm in a trashcan. Rick spars with the “First Time” killer over the airwaves. The police are stymied. Ratings skyrocket. And First Time continues to knock off members of the Circus, phoning in to gloat afterward. In a world of psychics and poseurs, crazy deejays and crazier callers, it’s up to Rick to bring First Time down...
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Audibook Review: Rules of Murder by Julianna Deering

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Title: Rules of Murder (Drew Farthering #1) Author: Julianna Deering Read by: Simon Vance Category: Mystery Published: August 1, 2013 by Bethany House Audio published: August 1, 2013 by Brilliance Audio Rating: 2 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository Introducing Drew Farthering. From the tip of his black homburg to the crease in his cheviot trousers, he's the epitome of a stylish 1930s English gentleman. His only problem? The body he just discovered. Drew Farthering loves a good mystery, although he generally expects to find it in the pages of a novel, not on the grounds of his country estate. With the help of beautiful and whip-smart Madeline Parker, a guest from America, Drew proposes to use the lessons he's learned reading his mysteries to solve the crime. Before long, he realizes this is no lark, and no one at Farthering Place is who he or she appears to be, not the butler nor blackmailer, the chauffeur nor embezzler. Trying hard to remain one step...
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Audiobook Review: A Cruise to Die For by Charlotte and Aaron Elkins

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Title: A Cruise to Die For (Alix London #2) Authors: Charlotte and Aaron Elkins Read by: Kate Rudd Category: Mystery Published: September 3, 2013 by Thomas & Mercer Audio published: September 3, 2013 by Brilliance Audio Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository This should be the cushiest job Alix London’s ever had. The second Alix London mystery finds the art restorer in a world brimming with idle luxury, spectacular locations, and deadly intrigue. Surrounded by art and wealth and the sun-drenched Greek isles, she’s aboard a sumptuous mega-yacht with no responsibilities save the occasional lecture to the guests of her temporary employer, Panos Papadakis, one of the world's richest men. But there’s a catch: Papadakis has long been suspected of being at the center of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme and Alix is actually there as an undercover operative of FBI special agent Ted Ellesworth, a member of the Bureau’s Art Crime Team. They hope Alix can gather the inside information they...
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Audiobook Review: Invitation to Die by Helen Smith

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Title: Invitation to Die (Emily Castles #1) Author: Helen Smith Read by: Alison Larkin Category: Mystery Published: May 14, 2013 by Thomas and Mercer Audio published: October 15, 2013 by Brilliance Audio Rating: 3½ out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository Twenty-six-year-old Emily Castles is out of work again. So when famous romance author Morgana Blakely offers her a job helping out at a conference in London, Emily accepts. Just as eagerly, American blogger Winnie Kraster accepts an invitation from Morgana to attend as a guest, not realizing she has, in effect, accepted an invitation to die. As a cast of oddball characters assembles at the conference hotel, grievances, differences, and secrets begin to emerge. When Winnie goes missing, and then is found murdered nearby, Emily begins to suspect that someone involved with the conference is responsible. Could it be one of the organizers, one of the authors, a member of the hotel staff, or even the supplier of the chocolates for the conference gift...
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