by Tayari Jones, Audiobook narrated by Sean Crisden and Elsa Davis, 2018, Highbridge, a division of Recorded Books This is a novel about a black couple and their marriage which fell apart after the man was incarcerated for a rape … Continue reading →
by Della Owens, 2018, Kindle Edition, G.P. Putnam’s Sons This is a well-written book about a girl who grows up in a coastal area in North Carolina isolated from the rest of the nearby community. She eventually learns how to … Continue reading →
by Peter May, 2015, Kindle Edition This is a good book that follows up on the first book of the trilogy, but seems quite different from the first. It starts when a discovery is made of a partially mummified body … Continue reading →
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 →