#AudiobookReview – Apple Cider Slaying by Julie Anne Lindsey #AppleCiderSlaying

  From Goodreads: "Apples are at the core of the family business run by Winona Mae Montgomery and her Granny Smythe. But this year's crop is unseasonably ripe with murder . . . ONE ROTTEN APPLE Blossom Valley, West Virginia, is home to Smythe Orchards, Winnie and her Granny's beloved twenty-five-acre farm and family business....

#20booksofsummer Book 15 #BookReview – Finding Dorothy by Elizabeth Letts #FindingDorothy 🏠🌪️🌈 👠👠 #TheWizardOfOz #LibraryLoveChallenge

From Goodreads: "Maud Gage Baum, widow of the author of the book The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, met Judy Garland, the young actress playing the role of Dorothy on the set of The Wizard of Oz in 1939. At the time, Maud was seventy-eight and Judy was sixteen. In spite of their age difference, Maud...

#20booksofsummer Book 11 #AudiobookReview – Shelter by Sarah Franklin – Narrated by Imogen Church

From Goodreads: "Connie Granger has escaped the devastation of her bombed out city home. She has found work in the Women's Timber Corps, and for her, this remote community must now serve a secret purpose. Seppe, an Italian prisoner of war, is haunted by his memories. But in the forest camp, he finds a strange...

#AudiobookReview – Grave Expectations by Heather Redmond #GraveExpectations

From Goodreads: "London, June 1835: In the interest of being a good neighbour, Charles checks in on Miss Haverstock, the elderly spinster who resides in the flat above his. But as the young journalist and his fiance Kate ascend the stairs, they are assaulted by the unmistakable smell of death. Upon entering the woman's quarters,...

#20booksofsummer Book 9 #AudiobookReview – The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend #TheGrowingPainsofAdrianMole #LoveAudio #LibraryLoveChallenge

From Goodreads: "Sunday July 18th My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy. I pushed my sausages away untouched. In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries, the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both...

#20booksofsummer Book 2 #BookReview – Blackberry & Wild Rose by Sonia Velton #Blackberry&WildRose #LibraryLoveChallenge

From Goodreads: "When Esther Thorel, the wife of a Huguenot silk-weaver, rescues Sara Kemp from a brothel she thinks she is doing God’s will. Sara is not convinced being a maid is better than being a whore, but the chance to escape her grasping ‘madam’ is too good to refuse. Inside the Thorels’ tall house...

#AudiobookReview – Great Expectations by Charles Dickens narrated by Martin Jarvis #GreatExpectations #LoveAudio

From Goodreads: "In what may be Dickens's best novel, humble, orphaned Pip is apprenticed to the dirty work of the forge but dares to dream of becoming a gentleman — and one day, under sudden and enigmatic circumstances, he finds himself in possession of "great expectations." In this gripping tale of crime and guilt, revenge...

#AudiobookReview – A Clerical Error by J. New #AClericalError #TantorMedia

From Goodreads: "When the crime scene is pure coincidence and there’s no evidence, how do you prove it was murder? Ella Bridges faces her most challenging investigation so far when the vicar dies suddenly at the May Day Fete. But with evidence scarce and her personal life unravelling in ways she could never have imagined,...

#BookReview – The Jazz Files by Fiona Veitch Smith #TheJazzFiles #LibraryLoveChallenge

From Goodreads: "Introducing Poppy Denby, a young journalist in London during the Roaring Twenties, investigating crime in the highest social circles! In 1920, twenty-two year old Poppy Denby moves from Northumberland to live with her paraplegic aunt in London. Aunt Dot, a suffragette who was injured in battles with the police in 1910, is a...