Bye Bye Baby by Ace Atkins

 Title: Bye Bye Baby

Author: Ace Atkins (Robert Parker)
Did I listen or read?: library 
When did I finish?: Auguts 23, 2022
When was the book published: 2022
Main Characters: Spenser, Hawk, Susan, usual cops.  
What happens? Spenser helps a black congresswoman who is being threatened.  Deals with a bunch of white supremacist nut jobs.
How long was this? 320 pages?
Did I like this? Very good Spenser, yes.
Overall grade: A-

Night Music by JoJo Moyes

 Title: Night Music

Author: JoJo Moyes
Did I listen or read?: kindle
When did I finish?: August 16, 2022
When was the book published: ?
Main Characters: Matt McDonald and wife Laura, Isabelle and kids Kitty and Thierry
What happens? Isabelle's husband dies, and they move into the house inherited by her great uncle.  Laura and evil husband Matt have been waiting for him to die so they could get the house.
How long was this? 363 pages
Did I like this? It was OK, not her best work.  Every section starts with "she ...." and you have to read along to find out who we are with.
Overall grade: B

The IT Girl by Ruth Ware

Title: The IT Girl
Author: Ruth Ware
Did I listen or read?: kindle
When did I finish?: August 10, 2022
When was the book published: 2022
Main Characters: Hannah Jones, April, Hugh, Will, John Neville
What happens? Before and after.  Before, Hannah goes to Oxford, rooms with April. After, John Neville dies in prison and Hannah isn't sure he did it.
How long was this? 423 pages
Did I like this? Very good thriller, yes, yes, yes
Overall grade: A

The Low Desert by Tod Goldberg

 Title: The Low Desert

Author: Tod Goldberg
Did I listen or read?: free book from Hannah
When did I finish?: July 26, 2022 I think
When was the book published: 2021
Main Characters: multiple short stories with repeating characters, like a cocktail waitress searching for her mystery adopted daughter from Russia.
What happens?  Lots of hit men, gangsters, in Palm Beach and the low desert in SoCal
How long was this? 290 pages
Did I like this?  really good writing, great stories, will have to find Gangsterland and Gangster Nation
Overall grade: A- cuz it's short stories

The Long Weekend by Gilly Macmillan

 Title: The Long Weekend

Author: Gilly Macmillan
Did I listen or read?: audible
When did I finish?: August 1, 2022
When was the book published:  2022
Main Characters: 4 couples, first name listed was in the college gang.  Edy and Rob (died recently), Mark and Jayne from the army, Toby and Ruth with a baby, Paul and Emily.  Three couples go away for the weekend (without Edy) and get a message (letter and champagne) from Edy saying "have fun, by the end of the weekend, one of you will be dead.  They stay at the house of John and ???.  John has dementia, Ruth is a blackout drunk, and Jayne has PTSD and blacks out.  Who can remember what?
What happens? Very exciting story of the different characters, and the first person of the killer.
How long was this? 336 pages
Did I like this?  It was a thriller, yes.
Overall grade: B+ because of the multiple blackouts.

We Begin at the End by Chris Whitaker

 Title: We Begin at the End

Author: Chris Whitaker
Did I listen or read?: free book from Hannah
When did I finish?: July 25
When was the book published: 2021
Main Characters: 
What happens? Sad story of a small town, the sheriff, his best friend who killed a girl and just came out of prison, the drunk mom with two kids, the little girl who is an outlaw, and her brother
How long was this? 324 pages
Did I like this? really well written and deeply sad, then sadder
Overall grade: A-