OCTOBER 2022 - AudioFile
Jim Frangione voices the latest installment in the much-loved Chet and Bernie mystery series. Listeners familiar with the series know that it is narrated by Chet, canine partner of private investigator Bernie Little. Frangione wisely chooses not to try to sound dog-like, while still capturing Chet’s openness and humor. Chet often fails to understand a turn of phrase and is easily distracted by tempting smells but always gets the feelings and motives of the people around him exactly right. To solve this mystery, Bernie needs to revisit his days playing high school baseball. It’s a fun, occasionally gritty plot, but it’s really Chet’s affectionate view of humans that makes this such an enjoyable listen. J.H. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
Library Journal
03/01/2022
From the multi-award-winning Andrews, past master of laugh-out-loud avian titling, Round Up the Usual Peacocks puts Meg Langslow on the trail of three separate cold cases when a member of her techie nephew's true-crime podcast team has an unfortunate accident that could have been attempted murder (40,000-copy first printing). In the New York Times best-selling Childs's A Dark and Stormy Tea, tea maven Theodosia Browning is approaching St. Philips Graveyard one rain-wrought night when she witnesses the murder of a friend's daughter and immediately starts investigating—never mind the serial killer loose in Charleston. In the Edgar Award-winning Krueger's Fox Creek, Ojibwe healer Henry Meloux protects a stranger named Dolores Morriseau who had sought his guidance but now finds herself pursued by hunters, with Cork O'Connor hot on their trail; his wife, Meloux's great-niece, is with the endangered Dolores (150,000-copy first printing). Author of the "Hugo Marston" mystery series, English journalist-turned-Texas prosecutor Pryor launches a new series with Die Around Sundown, set in World War II Paris, where Det. Henri Lefort has just a few days to solve the murder of a German major at the Louvre Museum (40,000-copy first printing). In Bark to the Future, latest in Quinn's doggedly funny New York Times best-selling series, PI Bernie Little and his devoted canine, Chet, try to figure out what happened to the woman who reigned as prom queen of Bernie's high school class and now seems to have vanished (75,000-copy first printing). With Quarter to Midnight, the New York Times best-selling Rose takes us to New Orleans, where police officer-turned-private eye Molly Sutton is tasked with helping a steamy-hot young chef prove that his NOPD dad's death was not suicide. Former director of the Wollongong Writers Festival, Scrivenor delivers the booming-big debut Dirt Creek, in which D.S. Sarah Michaels investigates the disappearance of 12-year-old Esther as she walked home from her rural Australian school even as Esther's classmates offer their own insights (150,000-copy first printing). In Schaffhausen's Long Gone, Det. Annalisa Vega recoups from having turned in her ex-cop father for murder by investigating a detective's suspicious death, which leads her to a slick car salesman trying to charm her best friend (40,000-copy first printing). Walker's popular hero, Bruno, chief of police in the Dordogne village of St. Denis, faces Spanish nationalists with plans To Kill a Troubadour after release of "Song for Catalonia" by a local folk music group.
OCTOBER 2022 - AudioFile
Jim Frangione voices the latest installment in the much-loved Chet and Bernie mystery series. Listeners familiar with the series know that it is narrated by Chet, canine partner of private investigator Bernie Little. Frangione wisely chooses not to try to sound dog-like, while still capturing Chet’s openness and humor. Chet often fails to understand a turn of phrase and is easily distracted by tempting smells but always gets the feelings and motives of the people around him exactly right. To solve this mystery, Bernie needs to revisit his days playing high school baseball. It’s a fun, occasionally gritty plot, but it’s really Chet’s affectionate view of humans that makes this such an enjoyable listen. J.H. © AudioFile 2022, Portland, Maine
