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 Audible Original Fiction by Mark Tufo

https://www.audible.com

An EMP from some kind of sun storm knocks out all technology on planet earth at the beginning of this story and the reader learns about it from three different perspectives in three different areas of the USA. It’s a serious post apocalyptic world in every place. 

This book started out exciting and I really loved the characters, but it was just so DARK. It got awful. There is a sequel, but no thanks! I can’t sit through any more of the hopelessness of evil humanity. It was well written but terribly so. 

ONE THUMB UP

I also listened to recently from Audible Originals: The Break Up Artist

Still Missing

 Fiction by Chevy Stevens

https://www.barnesandnoble.com

The missing realtor on Vancouver island was a pretty famous case to begin with. Then when she was miraculously found almost a year later after an harrowing hostage ordeal, Annie O’Sullivan’s name was even more well-known. But Annie feels like she’s still missing in a way; she can’t get over her fear that she could be abducted again and media attention is worse than unhelpful. Can Annie return to any kind of normal life?

This was an exciting and unsettling story with some surprises.

ONE AND A HALF THUMBS UP

I also read by this author: Always Watching

Burn After Reading

 Fiction by Catherine Ryan Howard

https://www.amazon.com

Emily Joyce is a writer who can’t seem to write anymore. She wrote a bestselling novel and accepted a large advance to write a follow up book. Then, somehow, six years went by without said follow up book materializing. Now she’s surviving on a dead end job and just hoping that Morningstar, the publishing house, has forgotten about her. 

But then Morningstar decides they need a ghostwriter and that Emily is going to have to repay them by being one. So Emily ends up interviewing a famous athlete who may or may not have killed his wife. 

This was an exciting thriller with several surprises. I love this author!

I also read recently by this author: Rewind

The Last Word

 Fiction by Taylor Adams 

https://www.audible.com

Emma Carpenter is house sitting for the winter in a lonely beach home on the Pacific coast. She is grieving deeply, escaping through binge-reading, and flirting with suicide. But when a murderer comes after her, she will discover that she doesn’t really want to die. Still, she might be killed anyway…

This book had twist after twist after twist. I loved it!

I also read by this author: Eyeshot

Murder in Disguise

 Fiction by Mary Miley

https://www.barnesandnoble.com

This is a mystery set in the 1920’s. Jessie Beckett is a former vaudeville child performer and is now working as an assistant script girl for a Hollywood studio. When her friend Barbara’s husband is murdered, Jessie investigates. 

This was a lighthearted story with some surprises. 

The Break Up Artist

Audible Original Fiction by Erin Clark and Laura Lovely

https://www.audible.com

Zelda is a wheelchair user and an assistant in an advertising firm. She is hoping to move up into a more creative role as soon as she can, but her boss seems uninterested in promoting her. Besides that, she’s still reeling from her mother’s death and her father’s hasty remarriage. She needs an outlet, and she finds it in the role of The Break Up Artist, anonymously writing scathing letters for people who want to quickly end their relationships.

But what happens if she actually meets a real person who has been on the receiving end of one of her angry missives? And what if it’s a good looking guy she just might fall in love with?

It’s obvious what will happen here; still this story was engaging and had some funny parts. It’s a pretty good straight romance. 

I also listened to recently by Audible Originals: The Kaiju Preservation Society 

Lady in the Lake

 Fiction by Laura Lippman

https://www.barnesandnoble.com

This was a slow-moving mystery story set in the late sixties. The characters were believable but not always sympathetic. It was okay but not great.

I also read by this author: Dream Girl