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I watched the movie but hadn’t read the book until now. The audio was great and the author’s note on the 30th anniversary of the book explained the reasons on how and why the author set the story the way he did. The story introduces the reader to various people and characters of Savanah and also goes into great detail about a murder and all about the trial. 
The story was cute as long as I didn’t spend too much time looking behind the curtain at the overall worldbuilding. Evie finds an injured man in the woods being hunted and it turns out he is the famous Villian. After helping him, he offers her a job as his assistant. She needs work and takes him up on the offer and works at his castle and walks home every night. Of course, there is a spy in the Villian’s crew and trying to figure out who it is makes for a good way to get backstories on the supporting characters. The story has a cliffhanger ending to pull you right into the next book.
This is set a few years after Legends and Lattes. Fern the bookstore rattkin friend of Viv’s from her early days as a merc has sold her store and moved next door to Viv to open a bookstore next to the coffee shop. But soon after she opens the store with doubts in her head and a belly full of alcohol she wakes up the next day in a wagon far from town. Fern is in the company of a legendary Elf warrior and her bounty moving far away from where Fern should be. So the only way back seems to be the way forward and Fern has adventures and constantly writes letters back to Viv.
For extra enjoyment of this story find and read Goblins & Greatcoats, a short story set in the same universe. You don’t have to but you will enjoy it as well since that character is found in the pages of this book.
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This is a SF mystery with time travel. A super rich man has been murdered along with a clone of him murdered at a second site. A retired cop is brought back to help with the case since she has a history with the victim. There is a veteran cop familiar with her and a newbie cop and the three of them go to the murder site to work on the case. I don’t want to get details since it will give too much of the plot away.
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The third book has Alex going to America with their valet but not their horse in order to help Dr Denton. Denton’s cousin has gone missing at an abandoned coal mine in West Viginia. Of course, things are not simple and Alex learns more about mines then they ever wanted to know. Almost as eerie as the first book and leaving you with the feeling that we all need a friend like Alex in our lives even if we hope to never truly need someone of Alex’s mettle to help with those kinds of things
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Spire Albion requires warriorborn Benedict to take 3 criminal warriorborn to a colony that has gone silent to recover a bag of documents. The colony is abandoned except for a small group of cats that can communicate with the warriorborn. As they figure out what attacked the colony there is a ship from a rival spire that will do everything they can to stop them from getting word back to their spire. A good story an you honestly don’t’ need to be familiar with the first book to enjoy this one.
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.
