A Chief Inspector Gamache Mystery Book 20 by Louise Penny, 2024, Audiobook narrated by Jean Brassard, MacMillan Audio Unfortunately, this series is beginning to feel old. The characters are the same but that might be the problem. We have been … Continue reading →
by Isaac Asimov, 1950, 2004 Kindle edition, Bantam Dell, a Division of Random House, Inc. The book, written way back in 1950, is amazingly prescient, although Asimov’s timeline was a bit off. We are now in 2026 on the verge … Continue reading →
by Ian Rankin, 2009, Audiobook narrated by Peter Forbes, Hashette Audio. I enjoyed this book about the fictious inspector Malcolm Fox who works in the Complaints Department of the Edenborough, Scotland, police department. The purpose of the department is to … Continue reading →
by Dorothy Sayers,1926, Kindle eBook published in 2012 by Open Road Media Mystery & Thriller I listened to the first Lord Peter Wimsey Mystery, Whose Body, and had some trouble following it. Lord Peter seems to be all over the … Continue reading →
by Alexander McCall Smith, 2010, Audiobook narrated by Divina Porter, Recorded Books This book has some interesting characters but a weak plot. Isabel is asked to check out three applicants for a headmaster position at a local school. I estimate … Continue reading →
by Louise Penny, 2024, Audiobook narrated by Jean Brassard, MacMillan Audio This book is about a plot to poison the water supply of Montreal. Inspector Gamache manages to come to the rescue at the last minute and prevents the disaster … Continue reading →
by Bernhard Schlink, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Nathalie Buscombe, Harper Via I would classify this book as a swing and a miss. It’s about a woman in Pomerania before WWII who falls in love with an aristocrat. The parents of … Continue reading →
by Ian McEwan, 2007, Audiobook narrated by the author, Random House Audio This is another of a series of audiobooks by accomplished authors that have disappointed me. I have enjoyed McEwan’ books such as Atonement and Machines Like Me, but … Continue reading →
The Lincoln Highway, by Amor Towles, 2021, Audiobook narrated by Edoardo Ballerini, Marin Ireland, and Dion Graham, Penguin Audio This book was apparently about a young man who was released from a reform school in Nebraska and his younger brother … Continue reading →
by Truman Capote, published posthumously in 2005 from a manuscript discovered years after the author’s death in 1984, Modern Library, an Imprint of Random House I was visiting Mt. Dora, Florida, a month or so ago and we went into … Continue reading →