the setup… Caroline (Caz) Ripley boards the RMS Atlantica, a luxury cruise liner, along with her boyfriend Pete Davenport, ready for the ultimate vacation. Their first night is a delightful exploration of the ship and connection to other passengers. When she wakes the next morning, Pete’s gone from their cabin. Caz walks out into the… Continue reading The Last One by Will Dean @willrdean @JennyFunnell @SimonAudio @librofm
the setup… Keera Duggan is a former Seattle prosecutor who left to join her family’s criminal defense law practice after her relationship with a high profile colleague turned toxic after she broke things off. It’s not a choice she would ordinarily have made despite her father Patrick (Patsy) having a formidable reputation. Keera has a… Continue reading Her Deadly Game by Robert Dugoni @robertdugoni @SaskiaAudio @BrilliancePub
the setup… Nadiya is a bestselling crime writer using the pseudonym D. G. Williams who was living alone and working at home in a three unit townhouse with her adorable bulldog Winston. That was until she discovered half brother Chase Garcia on a DNA website. After they connected, he moved in from Miami, broke and… Continue reading #CrimeTime by Jeneva Rose & Drew Pyne @jenevarosebooks #DrewPyne @SimonAudio @librofm
the setup… The Fairway Players are back, this time under the direction of Sarah-Jane MacDonald, replacing the Haywards. It’s a Christmas pantomime production of Jack and the Beanstalk and for those of you outside of the UK, that’s a type of musical comedy stage production designed for family entertainment which was developed in England. Rehearsals… Continue reading The Christmas Appeal by Janice Hallett @JaniceHallett #AyshaKala @racheladedeji @SidSagar @SimonAudio
the setup… Evan Smoak is recovering from the devastating attack on his penthouse six months ago and a chance encounter with a migrant worker has him considering a new Nowhere Man mission. But Aragón Urrea is no innocent, a drug kingpin in Texas who operates outside of the cartels and supports his community in the… Continue reading Dark Horse by Gregg Hurwitz @GreggHurwitz @ScottBrick @MacmillanAudio
the setup… Caroline (Caz) Sessions is a professional dog walker living in Brighton with her mother Ruth. She’s really good at it, too, and always has her own border collie rescue dog Joe with her. One morning during one of her dog outings, Joe breaks from her and leads her to a body. As horrifying… Continue reading The Perfect Date by Julia Crouch @thatjuliacrouch #SarahDurham @bookouture @NetGalley @HachetteUK
the setup… Detective Tracy Crosswhite, now head of the Cold Case Unit, returns to work following much needed time off after the trauma of her last case only to discover that the police chief is ready to wreak new havoc for her. She’s assigned the old Route 99 serial killer case, one that had a… Continue reading One Last Kill by Robert Dugoni @robertdugoni #EmilySuttonSmith @BrilliancePub
the setup… When former US Marshal Regan Merritt’s 10-year old son Chase was gunned down in her home in Northern Virginia, it not only destroyed her but also her marriage to attorney Grant Warwick. He blamed her job for what happened to Chase and evidence seemed to support that someone related to one of her… Continue reading Don’t Open the Door by Allison Brennan @Allison_Brennan @amymcnarrator @HarlequinBooks
the setup… NYPSD Lieutenant and Homicide Detective Eve Dallas and her über wealthy husband Roarke have just returned from a well-earned vacation to Greece with a brief stopover in Ireland. They thought they had a least 24 hours before she had to face the backlog of paperwork and he the demands of a massive business… Continue reading Payback in Death by J. D. Robb #JDRobb @StMartinsPress
the setup… Former Philadelphia Homicide Detective Dana Romano, who retired and moved with Bree Taggart to Grey’s Hollow, is now trying out the dating scene. When she agrees to meet Dr. Kent McFadden at his home for dinner, Dana enters a nightmare, finding him shot and the intruder still in the house who escapes but… Continue reading Catch Her Death by Melinda Leigh @MelindaLeigh1 #Christina Traister @BrilliancePub
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