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The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2022
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Sara Paretsky selects the twenty best mystery short stories of the year, including tales by Michael Connelly, Jo Nesbo, Joyce Carol Oates, Colson Whitehead, and more!
Under the auspices of New York City's legendary mystery fiction specialty bookstore, The Mysterious Bookshop, and aided by Edgar Award-winning anthologist Otto Penzler, international bestseller and MWA Grandmaster Sara Paretsky has selected the twenty most puzzling, most thrilling, and most mysterious short stories from the past year, collected now in one entertaining volume.
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At last, the enigmatic partner of Elvis Cole (The Two Minute Rule) takes center stage in this pulse-racing thriller. When Joe Pike is charged with safeguarding a wealthy heiress, he discovers protecting the sole witness to a crime is nothing compared to protecting an LA party girl from her own self-destruction.... Larkin Conner Barkley lives like the City of Angels is hers for the taking. Then suddenly she sees another car’s metal-on-metal explosion of a terrible accident and, dazed, finds herself the single witness in a secret federal investigation.
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Joe Pike is a real person: no longer a cartoon.
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By: Robert Crais
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Forty Words for Sorrow
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When the badly decomposed body of 13-year-old Katie Pine is found, John Cardinal is vindicated. It was Cardinal who'd kept the Pine case open and Cardinal had been demoted to the burglary squad for his excessive zeal. But Katie Pine isn't the only youngster to have gone missing and Cardinal is now given the go-ahead to reopen the files on three other lost kids. When another youth is reported missing, he begins to see a pattern that screams "serial killer."
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even better than the TV show
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Cold City
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If you've never read a Repairman Jack novel, this is the place to begin. It's 1990. A twenty-one-year-old named Jack has dropped out of college, leaving his old life behind to build a new one in New York City. Manhattan's rough edges are jagged enough to shred any unwary newcomer, but perhaps not one who is determined to stay off the grid, at any cost, in the busiest metropolis on earth. And to do so, he'll have to take jobs of a less than legal nature.
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Fun, as long you don't think too much
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Since We Fell follows Rachel Childs, a former journalist who, after an on-air mental breakdown, now lives as a virtual shut-in. In all other respects, however, she enjoys an ideal life with an ideal husband. Until a chance encounter on a rainy afternoon causes that ideal life to fray. As does Rachel's marriage. As does Rachel herself. Sucked into a conspiracy thick with deception, violence, and possibly madness, Rachel must find the strength within herself to conquer unimaginable fears and mind-altering truths.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Wait ....
- By Ann on 05-17-17
By: Dennis Lehane
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In the Bleak Midwinter
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- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
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Clare Fergusson, St. Alban's new priest, fits like a square peg in the conservative Episcopal parish at Miller's Kill, New York. She is not just a "lady"; she's a tough ex-Army chopper pilot, and nobody's fool. Then a newborn infant left at the church door brings her together with the town's police chief, Russ Van Alstyne, who's also ex-Army and a cynical good shepherd for the stray sheep of his hometown.
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Ice Cold Complex Small Town Police Procedural/Mystery
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- A Novel
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- Narrated by: Scott Brick
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 195
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Jamie Gabriel gets on his bike before dawn to deliver newspapers in his suburban Indianapolis neighborhood. He is 12 years old. Somewhere en route, he vanishes without a trace. Crushed by frustrating dead ends and exhausted by a police force that cannot (or will not) find their son, the Gabriels finally stumble upon a name - an elusive private investigator who may represent their last chance for answers.
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3 out of 5 stars
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By: David Levien
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The Last Place You Look
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Story4 out of 5 stars 286
Nobody knows what happened to Sarah Cook. The beautiful blonde teenager disappeared 15 years ago, the same night her parents were brutally murdered in their suburban Ohio home. Her boyfriend, Brad Stockton - black and from the wrong side of the tracks - was convicted of the murders and is now on death row. Though he's maintained his innocence all along, the clock is running out. His execution is only weeks away when his devoted sister insists she spied Sarah at an area gas station.
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Alcoholic PI
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A Nail Through The Heart
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Poke Rafferty was writing offbeat travel guides for the young and terminally bored when Bangkok stole his heart. Now the American expat is assembling a new family with Rose, the former go-go dancer he wants to marry, and Miaow, the tiny, streetwise urchin he wants to adopt. But trouble in the guise of good intentions comes calling just when everything is beginning to work out.
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Ever been to Bangkok?
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The Blues were born out of need, anger and pride. Murder comes from those same dark places. Memphis has both. One of Memphis' most seductive and notorious socialites has vanished. Either she's off on another drunken escapade or the disappearance is something much more frightening. What begins as an ordinary day's work for Detective Billy Able quickly grows into a complex spider's web of tragedy, mystery, suspicion, and sordid secrets including a few of Billy's own.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great story and excellent reader.
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The Blue Hour
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- Narrated by: Tavia Gilbert
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 225
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 187
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Story4 out of 5 stars 185
Tim Hess is a semiretired veteran cop staring at a death sentence - his own. Detective Merci Rayborn, young enough to be his daughter, is brash, impatient, and not someone from whom Hess wants to be taking orders. He certainly isn't planning on falling in love with her. Together, they must track down a psychopathic killer who's been abducting beautiful young women from the malls of Orange County.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding book, exceptional reader
- By Jan on 03-24-10
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Blindsighted
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- Narrated by: Kathleen Early
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 6,373
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 6,356
A small Georgia town erupts in panic when a young college professor is found brutally mutilated in the local diner. But it's only when town pediatrician and coroner Sara Linton does the autopsy that the full extent of the killer's twisted work becomes clear. Sara's ex-husband, Police Chief Jeffrey Tolliver, leads the investigation - a trail of terror that grows increasingly macabre when another local woman is found crucified a few days later.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Start here first...
- By Becka1310 on 02-01-18
By: Karin Slaughter
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A Drink Before the War
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 1,786
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,582
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With novels like Mystic River and Shutter Island, Dennis Lehane has dramatically altered the landscape of the crime thriller—while boldly overstepping the boundaries that have long separated mystery from literature. Now two of his sensational early novels have been combined in a single volume—two gritty and mesmerizing masterworks of suspense featuring the private eye duo of Patrick Kenzie and Angela Gennaro.
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4 out of 5 stars
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White Bread
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 06-30-12
By: Dennis Lehane
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The Cutting
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 305
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Detective Mike McCabe moved from a top homicide job with the NYPD to Portland, Maine, to leave his failed marriage and suspicions of wrongdoing behind, and to find a more peaceful life for himself and his 13-year-old daughter. But the small New England city is not nearly as safe as he thought. On a warm September night, a missing high school athlete is found dead in a scrap-metal yard, her heart removed from her body with surgical precision. As outrage over the killing spreads, a young businesswoman disappears while out on a morning jog.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Is It The Story? Or Its Telling? Hmmmm...
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By: James Hayman
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The Lost Ones
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 69
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 68
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Story4 out of 5 stars 68
It begins with a phone call that Nora Watts has dreaded for 15 years - since the day she gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. Bonnie has vanished. The police consider her a chronic runaway and aren't looking, leaving her desperate adoptive parents to reach out to her birth mother as a last hope. A biracial product of the foster system, transient, homeless, scarred by a past filled with pain and violence, Nora knows intimately what happens to vulnerable girls on the streets.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Would make a great movie!
- By Shay on 08-27-17
By: Sheena Kamal
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The Fallen
- By: T. Jefferson Parker
- Narrated by: David Colacci
- Length: 10 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 135
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4 out of 5 stars 99
My life was ordinary until three years ago when I was thrown out of a downtown hotel window. My name is Robbie Brownlaw, and I am a homicide detective for the city of San Diego. I am 29 years old. I now have synesthesia, a neurological condition where your senses get mixed up. Sometimes when people talk to me, I see their voices as colored shapes provoked by the emotions of the speakers, not by the words themselves. I have what amounts to a primitive lie detector.
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2 out of 5 stars
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OK, but...
- By Robert E. Orlando on 01-01-14
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The Man from Primrose Lane
- By: James Renner
- Narrated by: L. J. Ganser
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- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 138
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 123
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Story4 out of 5 stars 122
A mind-bending, genre-twisting debut novel. In West Akron, there lived a reclusive elderly man who always wore mittens, even in July. He had no friends and no family; all over town, he was known only as The the Man from Primrose Lane. And on a summer day in 2008, someone murdered him.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good read, despite, not because of sci fi twist
- By Lulu W. on 07-18-12
By: James Renner
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Bone Dust White
- By: Karin Salvalaggio
- Narrated by: Amy McFadden
- Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 855
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 768
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Story4 out of 5 stars 763
Someone is knocking at the door to Grace Adams' house, and he won't stop. Grace thinks she knows who it is, but when she goes to her second floor window for a look she sees a woman she doesn't recognize. The woman isn't alone for long before a man emerges from the dark of the surrounding woods, stabs her, and leaves her for dead. Trying to help, Grace goes to the woman and is shocked to find that it's her mother Leanne - a woman who abandoned her 11 years before.
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4 out of 5 stars
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at times hard to follow
- By cindy on 03-03-15
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- By: Marcia Muller, Bill Pronzini
- Narrated by: Cindy Kay, Emily Woo Zeller, Billie Fulford-Brown, and others
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 28
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 20
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Mystery Writers of America is proud to present Deadly Anniversaries, a collection of crime and mystery stories from some of the best contemporary authors, all of whom have been invited to put their own unique spin on what it means to recognize a certain day or event every year. An anniversary can take many forms, and by the time this group of best sellers and award winners is through, none of us will ever look at anniversaries the same way again. Edited by Marcia Muller and Bill Pronzini, this collection features original stories from 20 industry giants.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank you narrators for telling us these stories.
- By Jennifer Baratta She/Her on 09-13-23
By: Marcia Muller, and others
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The Big Book of Espionage
- Big Book Series
- By: Otto Penzler
- Narrated by: Piper Goodeve, Daniel Thomas May, Alex Wyndham
- Length: 47 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 16
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 12
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Edgar Award-winning editor Otto Penzler is back with a new anthology that has gathered the intel on the world's greatest secret agents, declassified here for the first time.
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5 out of 5 stars
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What a great bunch of stories.
- By Kay on 01-15-22
By: Otto Penzler
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The Penguin Book of the Modern American Short Story
- By: John Freeman - editor
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett, Scott Brick, Cassandra Campbell, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 20
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 13
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 13
In the past 50 years, the American short story has changed dramatically. New voices, forms, and mixtures of genres have brought this unique US genre a thrilling burst of energy. This rich anthology celebrates this avalanche of talent. Beginning in 1970, it culls together a half century of powerful American short stories from all genres, including - for the first time in a literary anthology - science fiction, horror, and fantasy.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too dark for my taste
- By Lazy Chicken on 10-03-22
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You Have Arrived at Your Destination
- Forward collection
- By: Amor Towles
- Narrated by: David Harbour
- Length: 1 hr and 22 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,300
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,983
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Story4 out of 5 stars 1,977
When Sam’s wife first tells him about Vitek, a twenty-first-century fertility lab, he sees it as the natural next step in trying to help their future child get a “leg up” in a competitive world. But the more Sam considers the lives that his child could lead, the more he begins to question his own relationships and the choices he has made in his life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- By RueRue on 10-19-19
By: Amor Towles
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Indemnity Only
- V. I. Warshawski, Book 1
- By: Sara Paretsky
- Narrated by: Susan Ericksen
- Length: 8 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 672
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 609
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 608
In this gripping adventure - the first V.I. Warshawski mystery - America’s top private eye is tossed into a dangerous adventure when a seemingly straightforward assignment becomes complicated and deadly. Hired by a man who calls himself John Thayer, V.I.’s assignment is to find Thayer’s son Peter’s missing girlfriend. But when V.I. finds young Peter’s dead body instead, her client disappears.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Back to the Beginning
- By Geoffrey Kragen on 11-22-11
By: Sara Paretsky
What listeners say about The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2022
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- Peggy E. Conlon
- 01-04-23
Not as good as previous anthologies
When I read Match Up I was excited to discover these collection from Mystery Writers existed. But I’m reluctant to buy more after reading The Mysterious Bookshop.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- RonaldWDavies
- 11-05-23
Just average
So so! Average! Ok! Can’t think of enough more Ho hum words to meet the minimum.
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Overall3 out of 5 stars
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- pandora922
- 06-13-23
The authors political views are unnecessary
Some of the stories were good but the political comments from the authors aren’t necessary. Whatever your political views are; remember, half of America disagrees with you. So don’t turn off half of your audience, just keep your politics to yourself. Specifically the Sleigh Bells author, his comments were ridiculous.
Other than that, the stories were okay, not as enjoyable as the previous versions I’ve listened to.
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