reviews

Hiaasen Takes on Trump Author: Carl Hiaasen On the night of a swank gala in honor of the President, near Casa Bellicosa (the Winter White House), wealthy and influential supporter Kiki Pew Fitzsimmons goes missing. The POTUS, codename Mastodon, is sure that rampaging illegals are trying to bring down his country by targeting his most ardent supporters, the POTUSSIES, a group of wealthy, older ladies who support their Commander and Chief above all else. When Diego Beltran (an illegal Honduran immigrant) turns up and has the misfortune of finding one of Kiki’s fancy pearls, the entire crime gets blamed on him, [...]

What If An Innocent Man . . . Oh, Nevermind Author: Mark Whittaker Philip Mather spent over a decade in prison for the brutal murder of his best friend, Jimmy O'Connell.  He says he didn’t do it, and Jimmy’s parents believe him. But can we ever really know what happened on that sultry day in the Northern Territory (Australia) when Jimmy went missing, ostensibly after an escalating argument with Philip? The argument started over a missing cooler, but it grew into homicidal threats and personal attacks on the integrity of Philip’s bi-racial mom. And what about the strange state of the [...]

A Clinical What-Dunnit Author: Alexandra M. Levitt, PhD Plagues, pandemics, simple diseases that have mutated into never-before-seen forms, all seemed the fairy-tale horror stories of the past, terrifying but thankfully distant; 2020 quickly disabused me of that naïve notion, and as I settled into the day-to-day fear of living in a world with COVID-19, I saw Deadly Outbreaks pop-up on Audible as a free offering. So, with my innate curiosity and the intensity of this moment in history, I thought that Deadly Outbreaks would be a good way to seek the truth behind the fiction and get at the heart of [...]