Thirty-Four and a Half Predicaments

Rose Gardner Mystery #7

De: Denise Grover Swank

Narrado por: Shannon McManus

Rose Gardner hates seeing her normally flamboyant best friend Neely Kate struggle with depression. So when Rose stumbles onto a piece of evidence indicating her birth mother might have been involved in a crime, she does the one thing guaranteed to cheer Neely Kate. She convinces her friend to help her solve a mystery. Though their penchant for investigating has gotten them into plenty of pickles in the past, what can go wrong if they’re looking into a case that went cold a quarter of a century ago? But the deeper they dig, the more dirt they unearth.

While she’s busy unraveling the past, Rose must also reprise her role as the Lady in Black as part of her ongoing agreement with the king of the Fenton County underworld. In so doing, she discovers a mysterious enemy is intent on attacking her friends, and her assistant DA boyfriend might be next on the list.

As both situations reach a boiling point, Rose must face the possibility that certain secrets were meant to remain buried and not even her special talent can get her out of every predicament.

©2015 Denise Grover Swank (P)2015 Denise Grover Swank

Good Story, Dumb Girl

This series is turning sinister for the good. It is no longer a fluffy romance mixed with a murder mystery. My only beef is how dumb Rose's comments can be and how she wants an explanation at the absolute worse times!

The narration is great!

Awesome!!!!

I am in love with the Rose Gardener series!!! As usual Denise never disappoints... Now it's in to the next one in the series!!!

Best series ever. Read in order!!

Love. Love and Love. I don’t know if another series I love more! The Rose Gardner series has been so much fun to read. I just wish there were more!!

Thirty-Four and a half predicaments

Funny and keeps you wondering what is going to happen next. I had to get the next book to hear what is happening next.

what a mystery

couldn't put it down plot was great. New mystery at every turn in the turn of the page

Blown Away

This was an amazing book with an incredible ending! On to the next book NOW!

Silly, but fun characters

I like this series. It’s cute. The story is becoming more and more far fetched, but finding out what happens to the characters keeps me coming back.

More Rose, more intrigue, more secrets, and more visions

I love Rose and her quirkiness, her stumbling accidentally into crimes, her naiveté, and her good heartedness. I am starting to yell at bit a Rose while reading these books - do not do that Rose, that’s a bad idea Rose, use your brain Rose. Rose is a 24 year old woman living in a nosy closed minded small town. She experiences visions that she’s compelled to share with the person she has them of. In this story, Rose, of course, finds herself suddenly in the middle of intrigue and danger when she decides finding out more information about her birth mother will help cheer up her friend Neely Kate after her miscarriage. The usual unexpected consequences and unexpected danger follows Rose and Neely Kate while they investigate. Mason, Neely Kate, Jed, and Skeeter are once again major secondary characters in this story. The book was well written and included witty dialogue, three dimensional characters, and an engaging storyline with sweet moments, exciting action, danger, family drama, painful pasts, mystery, plot twists, imperfect characters, missteps, and all the big feels. I am looking forward to reading what happens next in Rose’s life. 4.5 stars

Shannon McManus did a great job narrating the story and characters into life with enough change of inflection, tone and cadence to voice multiple characters quite convincingly.

Awesome Series

Just finished listening to this book in the series. I have to say that I am upset at the main character, Rose, because of her naivety. I am mad at her ex-boyfriend, Joe, for what he has done. Denise Grover Swank has a true gift for her character development by bring them to life. She develops their strengths and weakness, expresses their emotions, and their motives for what they do. I just wish book, Thirty-Five and a Half Conspiracies: Rose Gardner Mystery #8, was on Audible so that I may listen to it. At the time of this review it is not. I guess I will just read it on Kindle because I not only want to know what happens next, I need to know.

Exiciting even for a second time

Decided to start listening to the Rose Gardner series since I have already read them all. Love listening to it as much as I loved reading them. The narrator is great and really puts a distinguishing tone between each character. Another great book by Denise Grover Swank! =)