Audio: When you wish upon a Duke by Charis Michaels

Narrated by: Morag Sims

Series: Awakened by a Kiss, Book 2

Length: 11 hrs and 43 mins

Release date: 08-24-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Historical romance

To review

Something was just not right. And I can't put my finger on it.

Jason needs someone to help him get his cousin out of trouble. The more we learn, the more I do not understand why this would be Miss Tinker. Makes no sense really.

Anyway Jason is  former military, a reluctant Duke, and quite nice.

Isobel tries to be respectable, she is an expert travel agent (this too seems weird when we learn how.) Not sure I ever learned to know her.

At one time they are running from danger and decides to do it---so weird.

Some good things, like the end when they got back. but the boring talk about going to Iceland, and going there fell short for me. I just could not connect and yup dunno why.

The narrator did do a good job, but not all things can be saved

After a childhood spent cavorting around Europe with a dangerous crowd, Miss Isobel Tinker has parlayed her experience and language skills into a safe, reliable life. Working as a clerk in Mayfair’s Everland Travel Shop, she dreams of someday owning her own travel agency and has vowed never to leave the familiar shores of England ever again. When a handsome duke arrives at her doorstep, she realizes her staid existence is about to take flight.

Jason “North” Beckett, the Duke of Northumberland, desperately needs a travel guide. He’s inherited a dukedom but has a final mission for the Foreign Office—rescuing his wayward cousin from Nordic pirates. Isobel Tinker is the ideal translator, discreet and unknown, but she’s also uncooperative, stubborn, and disarmingly beautiful.

The Night Hawks by Elly Griffiths

Series: Ruth Galloway (#13)

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Published: July 8, 2021 by Quercus Publishing

Mystery, Crime

Library

Book 13! And they are still great, and I totally binged this one. I could not put it down.

Ruth is back in town, and she has a new demanding job. Single again, and well, there is always that tension between her and Nelson. Something that will never go away, and I keep going back and forth if they should or should not. But after recent books it made it too difficult again. Not that it matters, Ruth is perfectly content with her house, cat, and daughter that is 11 now! How time flies

In this book a body is found on the beach, there are hobby archaeologists around,a creepy house anda legend of a dog of death. And oh my, at one time I thought my heart would jump out.

What more can I say, a great ride again. There is everything you need, great characters you have learned to know and love, friendship, suspense and bloody murder. She is still to date the only contemporary writer I love. I just can't seem to find anyone else like this.

But to get everything, do start with book 1. So many good people you will meet on the way

The Night Hawks, a group of metal detectorists, are searching for buried treasure when they find a body on the beach in North Norfolk. At first Nelson thinks that the dead man might be an asylum seeker but he turns out to be a local boy, Jem Taylor, recently released from prison. Ruth is more interested in the treasure, a hoard of Bronze Age weapons. Nelson at first thinks that Taylor's death is accidental drowning, but a second death suggests murder.

Nelson is called to an apparent murder-suicide of a couple at the isolated Black Dog Farm. Local legend talks of the Black Shuck, a spectral hound that appears to people before they die. Nelson ignores this, even when the owner's suicide note includes the line, 'He's buried in the garden.' Ruth excavates and finds the body of a giant dog.

All roads lead back to this farm in the middle of nowhere, but the place spells serious danger for anyone who goes near. Ruth doesn't scare easily. Not until she finds herself at Black Dog Farm ...

Audio: True love Cowboy by Jennifer Ryan

Narrated by: Coleen Marlo

Length: 8 hrs and 55 mins

Release date: 08-24-21

Publisher: HarperAudio

Romantic suspense Contemporary romance

To review

I have listened to her a few times, and I like her style. She fits well with this western romance, and does it really fell. Voices, style and drama

Jon and Trinity meet and fall fast and hard, and yes I believed it. He knew what he wanted, she knew what she wanted. But the road there has some bumps.

Jon wants a new start with his daughter, though their ex comes along (ugh she was the worst!), cos she wants a new start too. Horrible horrible woman! But he is such a good guy and just wants his daughter to have his mother near too.

Trinity suffer from ptsd, from a previous book, but she pretends it's all fine. She is busy with work.

Yes, like I said, they fall fast and hard. They are so perfect together, and she fights for him and his daughter.

But the drama is there, his stupid ex, and some other thing I will not mention. Life is not always easy.

Romance, suspense and true love. All you need

Jon Crawford has returned to Montana, determined to take over his father’s ranch and raise his daughter in Big Sky Country, leaving the big-city life behind once and for all. He doesn’t have time to fall in love, but he doesn’t count on stubborn but beautiful Trinity McGrath, who arouses his protective instincts even as she tries to push him away.

Life hasn’t always been easy for Trinity, but now she has everything she needs—her family, friends, and a safe and secure life. With a business to build, Trinity doesn’t have time for romance…until Jon comes barging into her life and all her intentions are turned upside down! 

Still, an attraction like theirs is too powerful to deny, and sometimes true love comes along when you least expect it. But when someone from Jon's past comes back with a vengeance, Trinity and Jon will have to do everything they can to save themselves and their new love...

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