by Daniel Silva, 2007, Audiobook narrated by Phil Gigante, Brilliance Audio I was very disappointed in this book. I was expecting a suspenseful thriller that would have some unexpected twists and turns. What I got was a terrorist kidnapping of … Continue reading →
by Liane Moriarty, 2013, Audiobook narrated by Caroline Lee, Penguin Audio This book is about three women who live in Australia and how they are affected by the murder of a young girl many years ago. The book is well-written … Continue reading →
by Terry Hayes, Atria/Emily Bestler Books, Kindle version, Simon and Shuster Digital Sales, Inc. This book is a thriller but it is long. The author provides quite a bit of detailed background about every move the main character and his nemesis … Continue reading →
by Colson Whitehead, 2016, Kindle Version, Published by Anchor, sold by Random House, LLC This book is about a young slave girl who escapes from a plantation in Georgia via the “underground railway.” The book, although it is clearly fiction, … Continue reading →
by Lee Child, 2004, Audiobook narrated by Dick Hill, Billiance Audio I liked this book as it depicted the main character, Jack Reacher, as a deep, multi-layered individual. He is involved, not only with a conspiracy on the part of some … Continue reading →
by Hillary Jordan, 2009, Algonquin Books This is a story of a white family in the Mississippi Delta area and their lives as they move onto some property they purchased shortly after WWII. It centers on race relations with their … Continue reading →
by Patrick Taylor, Audiobook narrated by John Keating, 2008, Macmillan Audio This is the second of a series by Patrick Taylor focusing on the life of two doctors in a small town in Northern Ireland. One of the doctors is … Continue reading →
by Kate Atkinson, Audiobook narrated by Fennela Woolgar, 2013, Hachette Audio This book is based on an interesting idea: What if a person died but came back to life to live another life based on different choices made? It’s as … Continue reading →
by Ken Follett, Audiobook narrated by John Lee, 2014, Penguin Audio This is the last book in the trilogy. Thank goodness! While the book walked me back through a time in history that I lived through, I never really liked … Continue reading →
by Amor Towles, 2016, Viking This is a lovely book, slow paced and articulate. It is a story of a nobleman in Russia who is declared a non-person by the Communist Party after the revolution and is sentence to live … Continue reading →