Recently, the Mystery Book Club I've been reading with decided to add in several books that are free to listen to on Audible Plus. These two books were included in the list, with past reads being The Narrator and The Cabin on Souder Hill. Out of these two books, I ended up liking one a lot better than the other. Interestingly enough they had some similarities to each other, but one was written with characters I could understand and sort of like despite what they end up doing, and the other was not.
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Mystery, Suspense
Content: Strong Language
Jackie and Pete King have lived in Dunmore for
years, running one of the two local pubs in the sleepy little town.
Money has been tight after the bushfires, and it’s about to get tighter
if they can’t find a way to pay their suppliers to keep their business
going and keep the bank from foreclosing on their property. So when
Jackie receives a mysterious phone call offering them $100,000 to let
someone bury a body on their land, the answer isn’t as simple as they
thought it would be.
It’s a deal that could change their lives.
But when a woman in the next town over goes missing, it’s a deal that
could ruin them forever.
This was a novella length story that was pretty easy to predict, but I still enjoyed the twist in it anyway. Jackie and Pete make a bad choice, but at the same time I could understand why they did it. At some points in the story they ended up being their own worst enemies because they were in over their heads, and couldn't handle the thing they chose to do. The ending fit the story, but at the same time I kind of wished they would have made a different choice. I did feel sad for the victim's family not ever getting closure. This was an entertaining read that I recommend if you're looking for something short on Audible Plus.
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Category: Adult
Genre: Mystery, Suspense
Content: Nothing I can remember
In this pulse-pounding short thriller, Maggie
Cabot refuses to sit by idly as police re-open an investigation into the
mysterious death of a woman her husband used to know.
After two
decades in a near-perfect marriage, Maggie and James Cabot are enjoying
their first year as empty-nesters in their charming Florida suburb,
until two detectives arrive at their front door and change their lives
forever.
The remains of a young woman have been found at a
campsite in the Florida Keys. Hannah Nilsson, only 21 at the time of her
disappearance, was last seen on a camping trip with a group of
friends—including James, who dated Hannah long before he and Maggie ever
met. Shocked and heartbroken, everyone on the trip said they assumed
Hannah had wandered off toward shore, intoxicated from a long night of
partying, and drowned. But the discovery of her body 25 years later,
half a mile away from the campsite and buried six feet deep, makes it
clear that her death was not accidental.
As the police dig back
into the case, Maggie begins her own investigation, desperate to piece
together the truth and clear her husband’s name once and for all.
This was another novella and I liked it up to a point, but the main character, Maggie was not a likable person, so that kind of ruined it for me. She was jealous of her husband's ex-girlfriend who disappeared years before she knew him. I thought it was ridiculous that she was jealous that her husband loved someone before he ever met her. She then makes herself even further annoying by being jealous of the fact they are investigating the girl's murder. I was hoping for a character that I could sympathize with at least a little, but the people in this book really were despicable, with the main character being the worst of them all. Still 3 stars because it was entertaining.
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