Cut and Run

Fiction by Ben Acker and Ben Blacker

An Audible Original

https://www.audible.com/

This was hysterically funny. And narrated by MEG RYAN!!

It's scripted, so it's more like a radio show than a story, and it's about a pair of friends who steal kidneys from strangers in Mexico.

Yeah. It's a little dark, but I just loved it!

I also listened to recently from Audible Originals: Blood Territory

Gather the Daughters

Fiction by Jennie Melamed

https://www.barnesandnoble.com

This story is set in a dystopian society worthy of The Handmaid's Tale, (by which I mean, it contains  a very misogynistic group of people.) It was fascinating to read, although very dark.

Blood Territory

An Audible Original
Nonfiction by Mark Whittaker.

https://www.audible.com

In this audio documentary, an investigative journalist in Australia tries to uncover the truth about a murder. Was the wrong man convicted?

This was interesting enough, but not as exciting as I would have liked. I did love the Aussie accents.

I also listened to recently by Audible Originals:  Camp Red Moon

Exposed

Fiction by Lisa Scottoline

https://www.barnesandnoble.com

In this story, attorney Mary DiNuzio takes a discrimination case for a family friend, promising to waive her fee because she wants to help. She doesn't realize how much trouble this case will make for her and her law partner Bennie Rosato.

This book took me quite a while to get into, but it was eventually pretty good.

I also read recently by this author: Don't Go

Saving Charlotte

Nonfiction by Pia de Jong

https://www.barnesandnoble.com
A young couple receive a terrible diagnosis for their new baby daughter; she has a fatal form of leukemia and the only possible treatment (chemotherapy--not recommended for newborns) might be worse than the disease. So, they decide not to treat her. They do.... nothing.

This was an interesting memoir in a way, because of the writing style; I liked the narrator and her family, and the weird people in their neighborhood. But, the main story --the saving of Charlotte-- didn't work for me. Because they didn't do anything to save her! Literally!

Still, I'll give it a thumbs -up just for the beautiful writing.

Water from my Heart

Fiction by Charles Martin

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/

In this story, the main character is a hardened drug-runner with a hidden heart of gold who needs the love of a good woman to save him. (Maybe a bit of a cliche?)

It was pretty good, but not great. 

I also read recently by this author: Unwritten

Magpie Murders

Fiction by Anthony Horowitz

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/

This is a mystery story about a mystery story.

As in, the book begins with a publishing editor settling down to read a new manuscript, the latest installment in a successful detective novel series. And then you get so interested in the detective story (set in 1955) that you forget you started with a manuscript, until the story suddenly jumps back into the present.

This was a very interesting mystery --times two!!