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Good story

Revisado: 01-15-25

Lexi Graves is a temp employee at Green Hand Insurance.
At the end of the day's work, she goes to put some reports on her boss' desk only to find his body in the office.
While trying to hide from who she believes are the killers, she winds up in a closet with her supervisor who is also hiding from them.
It turns out that her supervisor in undercover with the police on a sting of the company.

Pro's:
Semi developed characters, some humor, and a decent bit of intrigue.

Con's:
I said semi-developed characters because I found several of them to be one-diminsional.
While I'm not a fan of romantic triangles in the books I read.
Lexy is hung up between her two amore's who from what I can tell, while both are cops, the only thing they really have going for them is they are hot.
At the end of the book, Lexi ha s supposedly chosen one of them (as in she says they are dating) when the other show up to offer her a job in his new company (instant daydreams of possibilities)

I listened to the audio book version of this story, and honestly the narrator was the best part of the story.

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Nice stories

Revisado: 03-24-24

While I did enjoy books 1-5, Books 6 & 7 were just a little weird.
They jumped from Zara's storyline to Zinnia's.
It was weird hearing about things happening that have already happened in the previous books and hearing about people who had died still being alive.
Book 8 was also enjoyable, but, this one was the first story in a new direction with the changing of one of the characters.
I appears that the storyline will now be focusing on vampires and I quit reading about vampires when they started 'Glistening'

I did enjoy the narrator in this series.
She did a really good job of bringing the characters to life.

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Excellent

Revisado: 03-13-24 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Tatiana is the last of her lineage when her father passed the kingdom over to her at the young age of 15 after discovering and defeating a foreign force who was trying to invade her realm.
These were the same beings who had killed all three of her brothers three years prior.

She is immediately challenged by another family who has served the king for decades.

With the upcoming trials, and another potential attack.
Tatiana has little to no time to make the decisions needed.

This was a really fun story that has developed characters, some humor, and a good bit of action.
It is one of the best fantasy books I've read in a while now.

I listened to the audio version of this book and the narrator, Julian Yetter did an excellent job of bringing the characters to life.

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Nice story

Revisado: 03-09-24

Agatha Raisin retires to the English countryside after selling her PR firm.
With her high opinion of herself she enters a baking contest despite the fact that the only thing she has ever cooked came out of the microwave.
The quiche she entered winds up killing one of the men in town setting Agatha out to investigate and find out what happened to clear her name.

I listened to the audio version of this book.
While it was entertaining with defined characters and a nicely thought out plotline.
The narrator did an admirable job. But, I really don't see what all the hype is I've been hearing about this character and storyline?

I did enjoy the story well enough that I'll listen to or read another one from this author.

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Okay

Revisado: 02-15-24

I listened to this book as I did others while doing dishes or just general things.
The AI narrator was better than I thought it would be.
It had different voice inflections for different characters.
My problem with the story is you have to give 100% concentration to the story of it's not worth listening to.
When the author told me it was starting Ch. 7) I was confused.
I knew two people liked to rabbit hunt, and someone has been kidnapped from her beauty salon.
That was literally all I remembered of the story.
I don't know if it was the story itself, or if it was the AI narrator that threw me off.
I don't think I've ever read or listened to a story that far in and not been able to tell you anything about what was happening.

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Good stories as always

Revisado: 08-17-23 El oyente recibió este título gratis

Book 1 – Death at the Café

Annabel is to meet her childhood friend that she hasn’t seen since she became a minister and Mary became a Nun.

When she gets to the rendezvous place, Mary is almost in a panic as a woman who Mary was supposed to meet about possible financing for a hospital in Africa where Mary was stationed. fell over dead as soon as they met.

Actually, the young woman was NOT who Mary was expecting to meet, because she was expecting a much older woman.

Shortly afterwards, Mary and Annable meet the elderly lady at her home only to have her also die suddenly. Making both Mary and Annable the prime suspects.

Book 2 - Murder at the Manor

It’s now three years later and we find Annabel at a Vicar in the village of Upton St. Mary.

With rumors abounding about a new resident who moved into a manor just outside the village.

Annabel goes to visit only to find a body instead of having a nice visit.

Phillipa accuses Annabel of kleptomania as some of the cupcakes she makes on a daily basis keep disappearing.

Pro’s:

Developed characters, and a solid story along with some humor to keep things light.

Con’s:

While it is an enjoyable story as all of Alisons are to read.

One of my pet peeves are when the murderer is introduced so late in the story.

I spent 19+ chapters trying to figure out who the murderer is only to find that I’ve wasted all of that time as none of the current characters were guilty.



Book 3 – Body in the Woods



A young boy finds what appears to be a human bone in a shallow grave.
This starts off a cold case of approximately 20 years.
It involves two sisters and their friends just before one of the sisters disappears.


Meanwhile, both Inspector Nicholls and Phillipa are behaving oddly.



Book 4 - Body in the Garage

Annabel has a problem with her vehicle, she parks on the side of the road and walks to the local garage.

When nobody greets her or answers her calling out to them, she checks the garage and finds the owner's body under a vehicle.

There’s lots going on in this story, with the normal charitable donations lacking, and many of the men keep disappearing for hours at a time.

Book 5 – Horror in the Highlands

Annabelle goes to visit her brother and niece in Scotland. She meets an elderly couple who had purchased titles and three-square feet of pasture of a castle on the isle from the internet.
With the theft of some valuables from the church safe, and a murder that Might be connected to it. And no way for the police to get to the island because of a storm. Annabelle is up to her cassock in another investigation.
Alison's stories are great reads with descriptions of scenery that make you want to go and visit the places mentioned. This was a wonderful story that contained a little violence and some laugh out loud moments. I hope to see more of her brother and his family in future books.



Book 6 - Killer at the Cult


Annabelle is invited to observe a celebration with a group that many in the town consider a cult. When the celebration starts to get out of hand, Annabelle cuts through the woods to go to her car, in the process stumbles across the body of one of the members. When the visiting inspector arrests the father of one of the girls, Annabelle is not so certain they have the right person, and starts to investigate on her own at the request of the local constable.



Book 7 - Fireworks in France
Annabelle receives a surprise visit from her childhood best friend, Mary, who became a nurse and a nun while Annabelle when to Seminary to become a minister.

Mary is in distress as the Priest over her parish died suddenly while in the process of giving the Easter sermon. It appears his death was not an accident. And is hoping Annabelle will be able to offer her help and save the reputation of a young priest who is Mary’s friend.

To make matters worse. While they are investigating the Priest murder, the Mother Superior is found to have died also, Only Annabel believes her death to be suspicious.

Meanwhile, Mike has his own plans for the trip, and it didn’t matter where they went for him to set his plans in motion.

And while all of this is going on. Mary (who has been a nun for several years now) is being tested about her calling to the ministry. The only question is will she remain true to her calling, or will she look to begin a new path for her future?

While it took a bit for the story to develop, once it did start it was the type of story I’ve come to expect from this author, a solid mystery with developed characters and a good plotline. There is also a romantic jaunt in this one that’s a little more pronounced than usual. But it’s a bit funny and definitely laughable watching the threads come together.



Book 8 – Witches at the Wedding



This series has memorable characters that feel like family that I always look forward to getting to meet again.

Annabelle and Mike's wedding is closing in fast.

And poor Phillipa doesn’t know what’s going on with the Bride to Be.

She’s more interested in another murder than finalizing her wedding in less than a week's time.

Apparently, this book will close out the Reverend Anabelle Dixon Mystery series.

I’m really sad to see this series end as book one Death at the Café was my first mystery by author Alison Golden.

All of the books in this series can be read as standalone books.

Including the last two which cover the engagement and wedding.


As this was the Audible option I listened to this time.

While I give the series an overall 4 stars.

I did not really enjoy this particular narrator.

I can only give the narrator 3 stars. She did an acceptable job for most of the characters.

My problem was when she did the voice for Mary, Annabel, or when a character was excited or overly worried. The narrator's voice would shoot to an extremely high pitch that was uncomfortable and sometimes even painful to listen to. With her accent I found myself backing up the recording in several places to understand what was said.

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Disappointed

Revisado: 06-24-23

I really enjoyed these stories when I read them.
While the performance and story was excellent.
They were lacking!!!
What made me the maddest, is that the stories only cover 20% or less of each story.
There was no hint or clue given that the stories were annotated or shortened by so much.
If there had been, I would never have purchased these set in the first place.

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Great story

Revisado: 06-07-23 El oyente recibió este título gratis

The Ghosts Campers Tall Tales is the third book in the Destiny Falls series.
There are developed characters, a bit of intrigue, and a bit of humor.
I have read this book previously and the narrator did a fantastic job in the audio version.

Hayden and Olivia are on a short hike and discover the body of a man, who, was supposedly already dead from a fiery car crash a month earlier.

Hayden is now everyone's favorite person to be around as much as possible. Of course the reason for her popularity is everyone is doing their best to make sure Hayden stays safe as it appears someone is out to get her.

On top of this, a ghostly older man who likes to camp and has to power to freeze time keeps appearing in order to tell her stories from the long ago past. Hayden has to wonder if these stories have any relevance to what she's involved in. And when she learns the mans true identity, everyone is impressed that she has a most notable new friend.

Meanwhile, the former ferry boat captain's daughter has more information on the woman who disappeared when Hayden was just a couple of days old. It appears she now has a conduit to be a pen pal with her long lost mother who apparently did not know her husband and son were still alive

This is a great story with a few unexpected twist that will keep you on your toes as you try to figure out what's going to happen next.

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Fun series

Revisado: 04-13-23 El oyente recibió este título gratis

This is a fun story and narrator did an excellent rendition for the listener.
I will be looking for more stories by this narrator.

Hayden Caldwell is a business partner with her best friend since college, Luna Caputo, whose large family took her in as one of their own.

Hayden is targeted by an unknown man and finally pushed into a construction hole, that was actually a portal into another world that closely parallels and is connected to hers. It's actually a country that few know about and even fewer can move between one area to the other.
Hayden gets to meet her brother and father who were forcibly taken by her grandparents so her father could take his place in the family business. This occurred on the day that Hayden was born, and her mother also left her shortly thereafter to let her grandmother and great grandmother raise her.

When Hayden's family members start getting attacked, Hayden is determined to find who is after them, and why they are being targeted.

Destiny Falls is a magical land that changes as needed to protect its inhabitants.
That may be a building moving from one spot to another, or even an entire park moving to a different location.

This was a well written story with developed characters, a bit of humor, and several surprises.

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