DWD's Reviews

Published by Penguin Audio in 2022. Read by Stephen Mendel. Duration: 11 hours, 35 minutes. Unabridged. The Runaway is the seventh book in the Peter Ash series. Ash is a retired Marine with PTSD issues and an intense desire to help people in need. Sometimes he settles down, sometimes he wanders. In this book, Ash is crossing the country and is near the border of South Dakota and Nebraska. He comes across a broken down car and a very pregnant young lady. She is desperate to get going down the road so he takes her.  They get a few miles down the road when they come across a truck blocking the road. They turn around and find another truck blocking the road and leaving them nowhere to go. The hitchhiker tells Ash that he is in very grave danger and he should flee... My review: For a book full of action, thrills, and mayhem, this book was often tedious.  ********Spoilers******** The pregnant young lady is a victim of gaslighting and, eventually, kidnapping. The process was long an...

  Published by Penguin Audio in 2007. Read by Eric Conger. Duration: 6 hours, 5 minutes. Abridged. Synopsis: Virgil Flowers works for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) and has been brought in to the small town of Bluestem, Minnesota to investigate a double murder. Flowers was picked for this job because he is a great investigator and he grew up in Bluestem. On his way into town, he comes across a gigantic house fire. He recognizes it as the mansion of the richest man in town. The next morning, they discover that it is also the scene of a homicide. As Flowers starts his investigation there is yet another murder and the list of suspects keeps getting longer and longer... My Review: This series was highly recommended to me. It's a spinoff from the much larger (30+ books) "Prey" series featuring Lucas Davenport. Davenport appears in this series as Flowers' supervisor.  The author, John Sandford This book is abridged and I do believe that the abridgment h...