Audiobook Review: Malice Prepense by Kate Wilhelm

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Title: Malice Prepense (Barbara Holloway #3) Author: Kate Wilhelm Reader: Anna Fields Category: Mystery/ Legal Thriller Audio published: April 1st 2004 by Blackstone Audio (First published 1995) Rating: 3 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Infinity Box | Audible Teddy Wendover is a hulking twenty-eight-year-old with the mind of a child. An accident at eight left him severely retarded. But did it turn him into a cold-blooded killer? Someone has bludgeoned Oregon congressman Harry Knecht to death. Knecht was the man who organized the ill-fated field trip that led to Teddy's injury. Two more murders convince defense attorney Barbara Holloway that there's a broader circle of guilt. Before staging a dramatic courtroom performance, she must sift through dead ends, hearsay, and veiled clues--only to discover that truth is more dangerous than speculation . . . . Malice Prepense is the third in the Barbara Holloway series I've read or listened to. I like the series overall. Barbara is an interesting woman, full of contradictions, and her father is just a solid, good, intelligent man. They are...
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Thursday’s Tale: The Death Coach

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Happy Halloween! I had to find an appropriate tale for the holiday and what says Halloween more than a coach with a deadless driver and headless passenters. I don't usually do this, but today I'm posting a poem. It's from Ireland, first published by Thomas Crofton Croker in Fairy Legends and Traditions, 1825. The Death Coach 'T is midnight! - how gloomy and dark! By Jupiter there's not a star! - 'T is fearful! - 't is awful! - and hark! What sound is that comes from afar? Still rolling and rumbling, that sound Makes nearer and nearer approach; Do I tremble, or is it the ground? - Lord save us! - what is it? - a coach! - A coach! - but that coach has no head; And the horses are headless as it: Of the driver the same may be said And the passengers inside who sit. See the wheels! how they fly o'er the stones! And whirl, as the whip it goes crack: There spokes are of dead men's thigh bones, And the pole is...
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Book Spotlight: Trudy by C. S. Ross

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  About Trudy by C. S. Ross This is a story of a washed – up detective who can’t resist trying to solve a mystery. In spite of trying to stay out of other people’s business, this character always manages to get tangled up anyway. Without trying the detective gets involved in the life of a little girl who just happens to be the sole heir to her family fortune. And, where there’s a lot of money involved, there’s always some sleazy characters trying to get their hands on it. The story takes some unexpected twists and turns as our hero tries to remain unnoticed by the press and his former associates. Follow our hero through unexpected events and unwanted danger. Sometimes you’ll laugh, sometimes you’ll cry but you won’t have time to get bored. In this story, each day’s a chapter and each chapter’s another mess our hero manages to fall into. Purchase: iUniverse About C. S. Ross: The author was born and raised...
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Guest Post: Mark J. Grant, author of Lila: The Sign of the Elven Queen.

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Isn't that cover cute? Today, I'm happy to welcome Mark J. Grant to talk a little about his book, Lila: The Sign of the Elven Queen. A Little Magic and a Lot of Growing Up The world is seen through the eyes of a six year old girl who is progressing towards being seven. Each day is a new adventure as mama and papa try to guide Lila towards becoming a young lady. Her request, granted by her parents, to own an invisible dog sets the stage for the adventures that follow. A shiny and sparkly world is created for the reader to explore the realm of some of the invisible people from Iceland that now live in the cornerstones of downtown buildings in New  York and in the boulders of Central Park. Fluffy, Lila's appropriately named invisible dog, turns out to be much more than he seems. The riddle is answered towards the end of the book as the invisible people thunderously...
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Book Blast: Run with the Wolves by T c Tombs

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About Run with the Wolves by T c Tombs: It is the fifteenth century, and three kingdoms are caught up in the dire conflicts of their time. As the possibility of a peaceful resolution provides hope that a decade-long war will finally end, no one realizes that dark forces are waiting to invoke chaos as a full moon rises. On a farm nestled beneath the Euralene Mountains along the western border of Medinia, young Willie works for the Smythes as a serf. One moonlit evening when the Smythes are gone to a neighbouring village, Willie hears the terrified cries of animals in the pastures. When he goes to investigate, he discovers that this wolf pack attack is like no other. Badly injured during the raid, he survives—but now he is afflicted by the full-moon madness that will soon transform him into one of the wolf creatures he dreads. With his life seemingly warped forever, Willie must face the prospect of a lifelong...
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Review: The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

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Title: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Author: Robert Louis Stevenson Category: Horror First published: 1885 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars Add: Goodreads Purchase: Amazon Stevenson's famous exploration of humanity's basest capacity for evil, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, has become synonymous with the idea of a split personality. More than a morality tale, this dark psychological fantasy is also a product of its time, drawing on contemporary theories of class, evolution, criminality, and secret lives. This is not so much a review as my comments about Stevenson's classic story, "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." After all, how can you really review a classic like that. It's obviously captured people's imaginations for years, impacted culture, become one of the stories we know, even if we don't actually know it. Dr. Jekyll creates a potion that he drinks and it lets loose his "evil side," Mr. Hyde, the side that lacks inhibitions, that gives into his baser instincts. Dr. Jekyll believes that...
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