I Remember You

 Amazon Prime Kindle Fiction by Brian Freeman

https://www.barnesandnoble.com

Hallie, a writer who lives in Las Vegas, is having a very bad day. Then her day gets worse, and she dies.

Good news though! She comes back, thanks to a quick-acting doctor with a defibrillator. But there's one problem: now she has a whole bunch of memories that aren't her own, even though they feel as if they are....

This was a really good thriller. I will look for more by this author.

I also read recently (for free!) by Amazon Prime Kindle: The Child Between Us

Missing Parts

 Fiction by Lucinda Berry

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Celeste has worked hard to construct the perfect family for herself after the lost-dad trauma of her upbringing: she pays the bills with her corporate job and her husband David stays home with their four-year-old daughter Rori. But she has only been able to do it by suppressing that trauma and denying the existence of anything negative. Then a series of events causes her carefully built barriers to break and it looks like she may lose it all.

The plot of this book was good with some surprise twists (and some predictable twists too) but it was hard to believe in the characters as real people. I felt like the author just moved them around the way they were supposed to go in the story but they had no realistic internal motivations for the drastic shifts that caused each plot change.

I also read recently by this author: A Welcome Reunion

Little Monsters

 Fiction by Adrienne Brodeur.

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As Dr. Adam Gardner, PhD, approaches his seventieth birthday, he doesn’t want to think about retirement.  In fact, he’s confident he has at least one more brilliant idea in him. The idea is out there, somewhere just out of reach; he can feel it. All he has to do is go off his bipolar medication and induce a manic episode. Wait, what?

Well, obviously this is a terrible idea, as either of his adult children could have told him if he’d let them in on his plan, but Adam has never considered anyone’s opinion besides his own. And now, just as his daughter Abby is gaining recognition for her art and his son Ken is gearing up for a congressional campaign, their father’s craziness is the last thing they need. Plus there’s a secret he’s never told them that is about to come to light…

This was a really good story with interesting characters. 

I also read by this author: Wild Game

The Case of the Felonious Faire

 Audible Original Fiction by Drew Hayes

https://www.audible.com

This is the third novel in the "Five-Minute Detective" Series (see below).

In this story, Sherman Holmes and his assistant Watson check out a mystery at a pretend medieval fair. Someone is cooking the books, but who? This one was fun but not quite as good as the first and second book.

I also read by this author: The Case of the Damaged Detective and The Case of the Haunted Haunted House

I also listened to recently by Audible Originals: Wild Game

Everything’s Fine

 Fiction by Cecilia Rabess

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Jess and Josh were (sort-of) enemies in college, but when they both start work at a New York investment firm they become (sort-of) friends. Then they become something more... But Jess is black and politically liberal, and Josh is white and politically conservative. Can they meet in the middle?

This is a straight romance with interesting characters. I enjoyed it.

The Berry Pickers

 Fiction by Amanda Peters

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Every year this Mi'kmaq native family goes down from Nova Scotia to Maine to pick berries: Ben, Charlie, Joe, Ruthie, and their mom and dad. The whole family works, kids and parents, same as always. But in 1962, five-year-old Ruthie disappears and nothing is the same ever again.

The reader knows that Ruthie has been "adopted" by a white couple and had her name changed to Norma, but the family just hopes she is still alive, knowing nothing of her whereabouts. They take it hard, especially Joe, her sibling who was closest to her in age and last to see her. Will they ever be reunited?

This book was picked by Barnes and Noble as their Discover Prize winner for 2023. I thought it was good but not great.

A Killer's Mind

 Fiction by Mike Omer

https://www.barnesandnoble.com

A serial killer is stalking Chicago, leaving his slain victims preserved in embalming fluid and posed in public. Ewwwwwww; am I right?

Now it's up to forensic psychologist Zoe Bentley and FBI agent Tatum Gray to find out who the killer is before there are any more victims! This is the beginning of series with those detectives; I think I'll look for the next one.

This was an exciting story with several surprises. It was pretty gory, though, so watch out. 

I also read by this author: Please Tell Me