Audiobook Review: Her Last Breath by Linda Castillo

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Title: Her Last Breath (Kate Burkholder #5) Author: Linda Castillo Read by: Kathleen McInerney Category: Mystery Audio published: June 18, 2013 by Macmillan Audio Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository An extraordinarily beautiful Amish woman, a dangerous femme fatale, is the central figure in a story that reveals a dark side of Painters Mill and its seemingly perfect Amish world. A rainy night, an Amish father returning home with his three children, a speeding car hurtling toward them out of nowhere. What at first seems like a tragic, but routine car accident suddenly takes on a more sinister cast as evidence emerges that nothing about the crash is accidental. But who would want to kill an Amish deacon and two of his children? He leaves behind a grieving widow and a young boy who clings to life in the intensive care wing of a hospital, unable to communicate. He may be the only one who knows what happened that night. Desperate to...
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Thursday’s Tale: Fairy Tale Fun Finds

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No story today. Instead I thought I'd share some of the fairy tale goodies I've seen. From IKEA - Your child can have fun recreating the fairytale by rescuing the grandmother from the wolf’s belly, safe and sound.   Love this cross stitch pattern available at 123Stitch.com. Aren't these shadow puppets wonderful? Available on Amazon. I'm pretty sure I have something I could wear this necklace with. Available from Forzieri. Wonderful dice to encourage story-telling. Available on Amazon.   And if you're a sewer, the projects in this book look adorable. Available on Amazon. Thursday’s Tales is a weekly event here at Carol’s Notebook. Fairy tales, folktales, tall tales, even re-tellings, I love them all....
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Audiobook Review: Ten Lords A-Leaping by C. C. Benison

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Title: Ten Lords A-Leaping (Father Christmas Mystery #3) Author: C. C. Benison Read by: Steve West and Jean Gilpin Category: Mystery Audio published: December 3, 2013 by Random House Audio Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository Although Father Tom Christmas serves his little church in enchanting Thornford Regis with a glad and faithful heart, he never expects to find himself skydiving to raise money for it. Nor, safely back on the ground, to see two of the other divers leap from the plane, then tangle in a midair punch-up and begin falling to the earth. To say that there is tension between the men in question—Oliver, the 7th Marquess of Morborne, and his brother-in-law Hector, the 10th Earl of Fairhaven—would be an understatement. But the trouble among this ancient landed family really began a generation ago, when a marquess divorced his first spouse to marry his brother’s wife, fathering in his two marriages a viper’s nest of arrogant young aristocrats....
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Audiobook Review: The Black Country by Alex Grecian

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Title: The Black Country (Murder Squad #2) Author: Alex Grecian Read by: Toby Leonard Moore Category: Mystery Audio published: May 21, 2013 by Penguin Audio Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Audible | Amazon | Book Depository The British Midlands. It's called the "Black Country" for a reason. Bad things happen there. When members of a prominent family disappear from a coal-mining village - and a human eyeball is discovered in a bird's nest - the local constable sends for help from Scotland Yard's new Murder Squad. Fresh off the grisly 1889 murders of The Yard, Inspector Walter Day and Sergeant Nevil Hammersmith respond, but they have no idea what they're about to get into. The villagers have intense, intertwined histories. Everybody bears a secret. Superstitions abound. And the village itself is slowly sinking into the mines beneath it. Not even the arrival of forensics pioneer Dr. Bernard Kingsley seems to help. In fact, the more the three of them investigate, the more they realize they may never...
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