Category Archives: Audio Book Challenge 2010

Review: Midnight Fugue by Reginald Hill

Posted on May 28, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

Midnight Fugue is the 20th and final book to count towards the obsessed level for the 2010 Audio Book Challenge (that’s one challenge done, three to go for twenty ten). It is several months since he was nearly killed in an … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Book Challenge 2010, book review, England, Reginald Hill | 9 Comments

Review: The Crossing Places by Elly Griffiths

Posted on May 20, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

The 19th book to count towards my 2010 Audio book challenge is the first crime novel by this author and I was tempted to read it by this review at Petrona (where Maxine posts what amounts to my personal reading … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Book Challenge 2010, book review, Elly Griffiths, England | 15 Comments

Review: The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean

Posted on May 15, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

This excellent review at Crime Scraps (the blog which has single-handedly rekindled my interest in historical fiction over the past year or so) prompted me to add this book to my TBR pile (or, if we’re being pedantic, to my … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Book Challenge 2010, book review, Scotland, Shona MacLean | 14 Comments

Review: The Mysterious Affair at Styles by Agatha Christie

Posted on May 6, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

A few months ago Kerrie who is hosting the Agatha Christie Reading Challenge & Blog Carnival prompted me to look for a way to re-visit Agatha Christie’s work, something I hadn’t done for more than 20 years. I picked up … Continue reading →

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Review: Slay Ride by Chris Grabenstein

Posted on April 29, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

Thanks to Ms Bookish last year I discovered the joy that is Chris Grabenstein’s John Ceepak series as read by Jeff Woodman and the series has become my ‘go to’ recommendation for people new to audio books. In an effort … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Book Challenge 2010, book review, Chris Grabenstein, USA | 4 Comments

Review: Still Midnight by Denise Mina

Posted on April 23, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

Denise Mina’s Garnethill was one of my ten best reads of last year so, even though I haven’t finished that series yet, I was keen to read her latest adult fiction. In suburban Glasgow one Sunday evening two men break into the … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Book Challenge 2010, book review, Denise Mina, Scotland | 9 Comments

A Review of a kind: If the Dead Rise Not by Philip Kerr

Posted on April 18, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

The first two-thirds of If the Dead Rise Not is set in Berlin in 1934. Hitler’s National Socialist Party has been in power for 18 months which made Bernie Gunther’s life as a homicide detective untenable because he is a … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Book Challenge 2010, book review, Cuba, Germany, Philip Kerr | 6 Comments

Review: Dead at Daybreak by Deon Meyer

Posted on April 6, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

In South Africa Zatopek (Zet to his friends) van Heerden is an ex cop now working, reluctantly, as a private detective. Lawyer Hope Beneke hires him to find the will of an antiques dealer called Johannes Jacobus Smit who was … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Book Challenge 2010, book review, Deon Meyer, South Africa | 12 Comments

Review: Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie

Posted on March 31, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

I have set myself a mini challenge to ‘read’ all the Agatha Christie books that I can find in audio format narrated by David Suchet and the latest to find its way onto my iPod is Sad Cypress, a novel … Continue reading →

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Review: Death in a Far Country by Patricia Hall

Posted on March 28, 2010 by bernadetteinoz

Police in Bradfield struggle to identify the body of a young woman found in a canal. While DCI Michael Thackeray, newly returned to work after leave to recover from an injury, is busy getting the investigation underway his girlfriend Laura … Continue reading →

Posted in Audio Book Challenge 2010, book review, England, Patricia Hall | 2 Comments