Remain by Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shamyalan

 Title: Remain

Author: Nicholas Sparks and M. Night Shamyalan
Did I listen or read?: library book
When did I finish?: 12/5/2025
When was the book published: 2025
Main Characters: The architect missing his dead wife.  The dead woman in the house.  The two caretakers.  The architect's best friend from college
What happens? Dude moves into a house, renting it while working on the project for his best friend's house.  The woman comes to hang out with him.  Is the a ghose?  They fall in love.
How long was this? 
Did I like this? A really good story with great characters and some twists and turns.  Easy to see where it was going, but well done, a pleasure to read.
Overall grade: B+

Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell

 Title: Don't Let Him In

Author: Lisa Jewell
Did I listen or read?: library book
When did I finish?: 12/12/2025
When was the book published: 2025
Main Characters: Nina, Ash, Martha, Nick or Alistair or whatever
What happens? Dude is a major con artist, swindler, with a skill for seducing woman and an evil side.
How long was this? 330 pages
Did I like this? Not much.  Predictable, hard to root for the characters.  Ash was the main character on to him and tracking him down.  Everyone else in his path is miserable, generally because of him.
Overall grade: C+

The Hallmarked Man by Robert Galbraith

 Title: The Hallmarked Man

Author: Robert Galbraith
Did I listen or read?: library book
When did I finish?: 12/1/2025
When was the book published: 2025
Main Characters: Strike, Robin Ellacott, Decima Mullins, Johny Rokeby, a ton of others from the Charlotte story
What happens? Strike and Robin are hired because a man is mutilated in a silver store vault (to make him unidentifiable) by Decima, who wants them to prove that it is her husband, Rupert Fleetwood, because otherwise he just abandoned her and their baby.  There are 5 different possible people who are the actual victim who posed as William White to work in the silver store.  
How long was this? 897 pages
Did I like this? It was nearly impossible to follow the different stories being investigated, combined with the other cases, the investigators and their problems.  JK Rowling is a good writer, so it's fun to read, but no way I understood what happened.
Overall grade: B

The Case for Christ by Lee Strobel

 Title: The Case for Christ

Author: Lee Strobel
Did I listen or read?: gift on my 70th from Jenny, paperback
When did I finish?: 11/25/2205
When was the book published: 2016
Main Characters: He interviews about 12 experts (all true believers) about different elements that have been pointed out as doubtful or contradictory in the story of Jesus.
What happens? Each expert expertly contradicts the arguments presented
How long was this? 306 pages
Did I like this? I learned a lot about Jesus's life that I did not know.  I did not appreciate the bias of every person who is interviewed.
Overall grade: B

Muzzled by David Rosenfelt

 Title: Muzzled

Author: David Rosenfelt
Did I listen or read?: libby audiobook
When did I finish?: 11/15/2025
When was the book published: 2020 
Main Characters: Usual crew, one new guy from a book that I missed
What happens? Dude who was supposedly killed in a boat accident comes back to get his dog.  Andy of course takes him on as a client when he is accussed of murder of the two dudes in the boat.  Pharma company bad guys
How long was this? 304 pages
Did I like this? Usual.  Always pleasant.  Read out of order.  Missed two books
Bark of Night 2018

Dachsund through the Snow 2019
Overall grade: B

Spook Street by Mick Herron

 Title: Spook Street

Author: Mick Herron
Did I listen or read?: kindle libby
When did I finish?: 11/8/2025
When was the book published: 2017
Main Characters: River, Slow Horses, Lamb, Marcus gets killed, Louisa
What happens? This is the 4th season where River's grandfather uses his shotgun to kill someone pretending to be River.  
How long was this? 317 pages
Did I like this? Even though I rememer a lot of the TV show, his writing style is very good, worth reading.
Overall grade: B+

Summit Lake by Charlie Donlea

 Title: Summit Lake

Author: Charlie Donlea 
Did I listen or read?: libby kindle
When did I finish?: 11/4/2025
When was the book published: 2016 
Main Characters: Becca Eckersley, Jack+Gail+Brad, Kelsey Castle, Rea, the coffee shop gal
What happens? Becca goes through school w J+G+B and then, 14 months later, is killed.  Kelsey is a writer for Events magazine and goes to investigate, trying to get back to work after her own problem happened.
How long was this? 339 pages
Did I like this? It was decent.  I liked the main characters.  The author tried some tricks and they were OK.
Overall grade: B