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Jack is now working at a consumer protection website doing stories that matter. When two cops come knocking to talk to him about a one night stand he had a year prior he immediately starts a deep dive into the case of Tina’s murder. When consumer DNA analysis comes up into looking into the story, Jack has way to hook it into consumer protection and build a story around it. But some people don’t want him looking into what they are doing and it may not go well for Jack and his coworkers. A good mystery and the bonus interview at the end of the audio with Connelly and the editor of the real Fair Warning is wonderful.
Set in the Kitty Norvell universe but can be read as a stand alone story. Three average guys have been living together as vampire roommates since they were turned in the same week 15 years prior. Sam plays and reviews video games and doesn’t go out much except to the club to help his roomie meet women for meals. Rick, the Master of Denver has pretty much left the three of them on their own since they were turned. When a reporter approaches them for a story but is really using it as a way to get info on Rick, Sam and his buddies now have to deal with older vamps coming after them and hope that Rick can get to them in time.
The Waiting by Michael Connelly, Christine Lakin (Narrator), Titus Welliver (Narrator), Madison Lintz (Narrator)
This book covers three cases, two cold cases and one case that Renee can’t make an official case since it deals with her badge and gun being stolen while she was surfing. The first cold case is an old series of rapes that gets a familial hit that send then trying to solve an even older rape case. The second cold case is one that Maddie brings to the unit when she gets flagged on her personal time at her storage unit when they owner finds an abandoned unit with graphic evidence of a very old serial killer. Renee reaches out the Harry to help her with getting her badge and gun back and that leads to a trail of breadcrumbs to a bigger case that she has to decide what to do about.
Mickey made some bad bets on a friend’s game and now he is more than desperate to sign up as an Expendable on a colony ship. 200 people with specialized skills and then there is Mickey, his job is to do things that will get him killed but are necessary for the colony. When he dies he is resurrected and keeps doing jobs until he must do something lethal. When the 6th version of him is presumed dead his 7th version is decanted. Six makes it back to camp and finds Seven in his bed and neither of them want to die even though only one of them should be alive. With a colony leader having a religious hate about him he needs to keep out of trouble, but it doesn't happen. The story was interesting and the ending fixes a lot of what is going on for Mickey.
Resurrection Walk by Michael Connelly, Peter Giles (Narrator), Titus Welliver (Narrator), Christine Lakin (Narrator)
This is a Lincoln Lawyer book with Bosch also appearing since he is working for Mickey in order to keep health insurance since he is fighting cancer from radiation exposure from an old case. Harry is sorting through all the letters Mickey gets looking for a needle in the haystack of people saying they are innocent but in jail. They find a case in a woman serving time for the murder of her ex-husband, a sheriff’s deputy. Once they start looking at the details, things don’t add up and Mickey does his magic in the courtroom. A good mystery and of course there is more than just a simple murder.
Renee is heading up a newly reformed cold case unit that has the political support of a councilman who’s sister is one of the cases. Renee gets Harry to volunteer on the unit with the carrot that he can also work on one of his old cases that has always nagged him. Ballard’s case turns up to be a serial murderer and Bosch closes his in a way that could cost him his life.
The Full Moon Coffee Shop by Mai Mochizuki, Jesse Kirkwood (Translator), Sadao Ueda (Narrator), Tomoko Komura (Narrator), Yuriri Naka (Narrator)
The book has three POV people that each find a magical coffee shop run by cats during the full moon. It isn’t where you would expect a coffee shop to be and but guidance the cats provide with coffee and snacks helps each person find their way. A nice low stakes read when you need a little pick me up of a read. I really enjoyed the audio version of this book.
A cute collection of stories from Atticus’ past that he shares with Oberon and Starbuck when they have to get baths for various reasons. Some of the stories highlight a time in history that he was adjacent to and others are when he was doing things to help the Earth. A good read for fans but not the place for someone new to jump in.
Renee catches the first case of the year of a murder disguised as an accidental shooting of a gun fired as the midnight struck on the NYE. She drags her feet a bit getting info the the dayshift since they are working several horrific rape cases. When the casing from the shooting matches an old open case of Bosch’s and the file is missing, she reaches out to him and working off the books together they solve the murder. Ballard is also helping out with the rape cases task force on dayshift, and she solves that one as well. She catches flack for how she did things and it will be interesting to see how it comes up in the next book.
Ashley got a new job as the community liaison for a district in the city that has more aliens than humans and she gets tossed in the deep end quickly. Constituents come in to get their rep to take care of issues of the sewer and worries about damage from an upcoming parade. Ashley also ends up meeting with a local animal control officer that deals with more than just cats and dogs. A humorous story and I hope there will be more in this setting in the future.
Yea for more mysteries with Sub-Inspector Ferron. This time the victim knew she would die but now she is missing and the only clue in her apartment is a herd of tiny unicorns. This story gets into the details of social media in the future. The killer is clever, but Ferron wins in the end. 
A good SF mystery set in a future India follows sub-inspector Ferron as she works on a murder where the victim was turned inside out. The details of setting and how things are really elevated this murder case. The audio was thoroughly enjoyable. Can’t wait to listen to the next one. 
This is a sweet warm hug of a story about a boy and the animals he meets around his home. The audio is read by the author so I missed all the drawing in the print version but the audio was absolutely lovely.
This slice of life story of astronauts living in the ISS is a lovely low stakes read. Each astronaut thinks day to day about what is going on down on Earth while they see it all at a remove. The reader gets an overall impression of how everything is connected to one another on the planet.
Tao is a traveling tea seller who also tells small fortunes. She isn’t native to the area and sometimes people don’t trust her, so she is always on the move. Along the way she meets up with other people and helps them with their goals. By the end there are happy endings and good resolutions for everyone involved. A nice low stakes read.
Cole is the eldest son of the current Santa Claus and is viewed as a screwup by his father but not by his younger brother. Cole has come home for the Christmas season and is told he needs to marry his childhood friend Iris, the Easter Princess. To make things interesting Halloween is sending one of their princes to also court Iris as a PR move. Cole doesn’t agree with what is dad is doing to promote and push the Christmas agenda and Kris, his younger brother agrees with him. Hex, the Halloween Prince and Cole have a spark between them immediately and it turns out they did met once before but Cole didn’t know who Hex was at the time. The overall story was cute and I would like to read more about the other holidays and their royal families.
Hellboy and The BPRD: The Goddess of Manhattan [Dramatized Adaptation]
by Christopher Golden; Thomas E. Sniegoski, Full Cast Audio
Love Hellboy and this one has Liz and Abe. Set in the 1990’s with a goddess coming back to take over the surface that Lobster Johnson and his crew had defeated in the past. Good quips and great cast made me miss that we didn’t get more Del Toro Hellboy films.
Ropa Moyo is now working for England’s Royal Sorcerer and money seems to be coming her way in to be able to take care of her grandmother, but everything crashes down with Scottish magical society fighting in the Library and then her grandmother is murdered and she is blamed for it. On the run from the police, her new boss turns away from her and even one of her best friends has turned their back, she has to survive to find her Gran’s killer and learn more about her father since what she has always been told wasn’t the truth. The book ends on a cliffhanger, and I can’t wait to see how they solve what happened in the last chapter.
Digital review copy provided by the publisher through Netgalley
What Song the Sirens Sang by Simon R. Green, Christopher Walker (reader), Bradley Foster Smith (reader), Colleen Delany (reader), Scott McCormick (Goodreads Author) (reader), Shanta Parasuraman (reader), Kay Eluvian (reader), Ian Russell (reader), Jenna Sharpe (reader), Keval Shah (reader), Khaya Fraites (reader)
Gideon and Annie are now in charge of Old Harry’s Place and need to find good things to stock it. When a rock that contains the song of a siren is stolen from them, they are hot on the trail of who did it to get it back and show the world you can’t steal from Gideon. But before they can start to find it they need to find Switch it Sally, who has been kidnapped from her honeymoon with Lex. Everything ties together and with the help of a new character they solve the theft.
#70 Spare by Prince Harry
Dec. 20th, 2024 03:44 pmI did the audio for this because I wanted to hear him describe his life. There is a lot of privilege growing up and some distinct obstacles due to nothing more than being second born in a family where the first male is all important and the rest are just window dressing. It was an interesting peek into a very weird fishbowl lifestyle.
