My Afflation

I love free things, including short stories. I just finished listening to Plan B: A Nick Heller Story, narrated by Holter Graham. You can also get it for free in the Kindle, Borders/Kobo and Nook stores. I use short stories to introduce me to new authors. One reason why I love Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine . But I digress. I like mystery and crime stories and Audible suggested Finder to me. An original short story by Joseph Finder, New York Times best-selling author of Buried Secrets and Vanished . "Plan B" finds private spy Nick Heller in Barcelona, Spain, on a rescue mission. The target: a walled compound with state-of-the art-security. The object: a teenage girl, held against her will. The plan: get in and rescue the girl and then get out - without tripping an alarm or alerting the army of guards. But even the best designed plans can go wrong, which is why Nick Heller always has a Plan B.  Nick is no Shane Scully, at least from my brief introduction, but he...

I just finished listening to the Audible presentation of Grave Secrets and as much as I love Bones  and Tempe Brennan, I think I would have enjoyed this presentation more reading it or having a different narrator. This review applies to the audible version. A harrowing excavation unearths a chilling tragedy never laid to rest. They are “the disappeared,” twenty-three massacre victims buried in a well in the Guatemalan village of Chupan Ya two decades ago. Leading a team of experts on a meticulous, heartbreaking dig, Tempe Brennan pieces together the violence of the past. But a fresh wave of terror begins when the horrific sounds of a fatal attack on two colleagues come in on a blood-chilling satellite call. Teaming up with Special Crimes Investigator Bartolomé Galiano and Montreal detective Andrew Ryan, Tempe quickly becomes enmeshed in the cases of four privileged young women who have vanished from Guatemala City — and finds herself caught in deadly territory where power, m...