Monday, May 12, 2025

No Fixed Line by Dana Stabenow

 Title: No Fixed Line

Author: Dana Stabenow
Did I listen or read?: Libby audiobook
When did I finish?: 5/9/2025
When was the book published: 2020
Main Characters: Kate Shugak, PI, Jim Chopin, a whole lotta other people
What happens? Kate is named executor for a guy who tried to kill her, and Jim investigates the airplane crash that leaves a couple of sex-abused kids alive while the bad man is killed
How long was this? 400 pages
Did I like this? not too much, have to try something earlier in the series
Overall grade: B-

Wednesday, May 7, 2025

Mary Called Magdalene by Margaret George

 Title: Mary Called Magdalene

Author: Margaret George
Did I listen or read?: library book
When did I finish?: 5/7/2025
When was the book published: 2002
Main Characters: Mary, Joel (husband), Elisheba (daughter), Jesus, Mother Mary, John, Paul, Peter, Simon, Joanna, Judas, Pontius Pilate, Jesus
What happens? Mary is born a middle class Jew.  Has demons.  Marries Joel.  Demons take over.  Jesus cures her.  Jesus starts preaching, taking over for John the Baptist. etc.
How long was this? 632 pages
Did I like this? Really boring and painfully detailed about the whole demon thing.  But what a story
Overall grade: B

A Place to Bury Strangers by Mark Dawson

 Title: A Place to Bury Strangers

Author: Mark Dawson
Did I listen or read?: libby audiobook
When did I finish?: 5/2/2025
When was the book published:  2021
Main Characters: Atticus Finch - on the spectrum PI, Mackenzie Jones still a copy
What happens? Atticus is now a PI after being tossed off the force.  Mac is his former partner who he had an affair with and is getting a divorce because of it.  He has a private client who wants to find his runaway daughter, and she works a case where a human bone is found from a cemetery that hasn't been active since the 1940s.
How long was this? 432 pages
Did I like this? Decent, worth trying an earlier one.
Overall grade: B