Kate’s 2¢: “The Midnight Feast” A Novel” by Lucy Foley

“The Midnight Feast” A Novel” by Lucy Foley

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   The multiple readers did a great job of narrating this very interesting, yet disturbing novel. Foley’s technique of slices of time interspersed with each other moved the narrative along and kept me reading. I like the fast pace at the ending of the story and the conclusion.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Lucy Foley (born 16 August 1986 in Sussex, England) is a British author of contemporary, historical fiction and mystery novels. Her novels The Paris Apartment and The Guest List are New York Times best sellers.[1]

Education[edit]

Foley studied English literature at University College London and Durham University.[2]

Career[edit]

Foley worked as an editor at Headline Publishing Group and Hodder & Stoughton before writing full-time.

The Guest List (2020)[edit]

The Guest List is a thriller novel published on 2 June 2020 by William Morrow. The book is a New York Times[1] and Washington Post best-seller.[3]

The Guest List received a starred review from Library Journal,[4] as well as positive reviews from Booklist,[5] The New York Times Book Review,[1] Good Housekeeping,[6] Marie Claire,[7] The Washington Post,[8] Buzzfeed,[9] Harper’s Bazaar,[10] Shelf Awareness,[10] and PopSugar.[11] Publishers Weekly[12] provided a mixed review.

The book also received the following accolades:

• New York Times Best Thrillers of 2020[13]

• Goodreads Choice Award for Mystery & Thriller (2020)[14]

• CWA Gold Dagger Award Longlist (2020)[15]

The Paris Apartment (2022)[edit]

The Paris Apartment was published on 22 February 2022. It is a mystery/thriller novel. The book was named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Goodreads[16] and Good Housekeeping.[17]

Bibliography[edit]

• The Book of Lost and Found (2015)

• The Invitation (2016)

• Last Letter from Istanbul (2018)

• The Hunting Party (2019)[18]

• The Guest List (2020)[19]

• The Paris Apartment (2022)

• The Midnight Feast (2024)[20]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The midnight feast: a novel DB122574

Foley, Lucy, (Novelist) Reading time: 10 hours, 24 minutes.

Tuppence Middleton; Laurence Dobiesz; Roly Botha; Sarah Slimani; Joe Eyre

Suspense Fiction

Mystery and Detective Stories

Psychological Fiction

Bestsellers

“It’s the opening night of The Manor, and no expense, small or large, has been spared. The infinity pool sparkles; crystal pouches for guests’ healing have been placed in the Seaside Cottages and Woodland Hutches; the “Manor Mule” cocktail (grapefruit, ginger, vodka, and a dash of CBD oil) is being poured with a heavy hand. Everyone is wearing linen. And yet, outside The Manor’s immaculately kept grounds, and ancient forest bristles with secrets. The local community resents what they see as the Manor’s intrusion into the local woods and attempts to privatize the beach, and small skirmishes have erupted on the edges of the property between locals and the staff. And the whispers keep coming, about an old piece of pagan folklore–it must be folklore–the Night Birds, an avenging force that can be called upon to make right wrongs that elude the law. Though surely everything at the Manor has been done aboveboard. On the Sunday morning of opening weekend, the local police are called. There’s been a fire. A body’s been discovered. Something’s not right with the guests. What happened on the grounds of the Manor the past 36 hours? And who–or what–is the cause? Everyone has an agenda. Everyone has a past. But not everyone will survive…The Midnight Feast.”– From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook. Bestseller.

Kate’s 2¢: “Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen

“Hatchet” by Gary Paulsen

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   I down-loaded this book from Bookshare® and Benetech.

 The digital recording had several word and phrase repetitions I thought odd, but maybe it was just the way of the recording and not what the author actually wrote.

I will be down-loading the NLS/BARD.LOC version of this story, read by Gary Tipton  to compare the presentations.

   Overall, I enjoyed the story. There are other books related to Brian’s adventure.

AI Overview

Gary Paulsen (1939-2021) was a prolific and award-winning American author known for his children’s and young adult fiction, particularly his wilderness survival stories. He wrote over 200 books and was recognized for his contribution to young adult literature with the Margaret Edwards Award in 1997. 

Gary James Paulsen (May 17, 1939 – October 13, 2021) was an American writer of children’s and young adult fiction, best known for coming-of-age stories about the wilderness. He was the author of more than 200 books and wrote more than 200 magazine articles and short stories, and several plays, all primarily for teenagers. He won the Margaret Edwards Award from the American Library Association in 1997 for his lifetime contribution in writing for teens.[1]

Early life[edit]

Gary Paulsen was born on May 17, 1939, in Minneapolis to Oscar Paulsen and Eunice Paulsen, née Moen.[2] His father was a career army officer who departed soon after Gary’s birth to join General Patton’s staff. Gary next saw his father at age 7 when he and his mother sailed to the Philippines to join him at his army base. He and his mother lived in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.[3] When Gary was 4, his mother took him to live in Chicago. Before World War II ended, she sent him to live with relatives on a farm for a year.[4]

He wrote some fragmented autobiographical works describing his early life, such as Eastern Sun, Winter Moon: An Autobiographical Odyssey. The book, which is written in the first person, begins when he was seven, living in Chicago with his mother. Paulsen described several traumatic occurrences that transpired during the three years that are chronicled by the book. For example, one day while his mother was napping, Gary sneaked outside to play. There a vagrant snatched him and attempted to molest him, but his mother suddenly appeared on the scene and beat the man.[5] Paulsen reported an affair his mother had in Eastern Sun. He also wrote about his mother’s alcoholism.[6]

When World War II ended, Gary’s father sent for him and his mother to come to join him in the Philippines, where he was stationed. A great part of the book Eastern Sun, Winter Moon is dedicated to the voyage by naval vessels (liberty ships) to the Philippines. During the trip, Gary witnessed a plane crash. He, his mother, and the people who were also being transported on this liberty ship looked on as many of the airplane’s passengers were killed or maimed by the sharks that would follow the ship consuming waste. His mother, the only woman aboard, helped the ship’s corpsman care for the surviving victims. After arriving in Hawaii, according to Paulsen, his mother began an affair with the corpsman.[7]

In elementary school, he was quite deficient at literacy class and struggled with it. The accounts in Eastern Sun ended when Gary and his mother left Manila.

Bits and pieces of Gary’s adolescence can be cobbled together in Guts: The True Stories Behind Hatchet and the Brian Books. In that book, Paulsen discusses how he survived between the ages of twelve and fourteen back in Minnesota. He barely mentions his parents except to say that they were too busy being drunk to stock the refrigerator. He worked several jobs during this time, including setting pins at a bowling alley, delivering newspapers, and working as a farmhand. He bought his own school supplies and a .22 single-shot rifle, which he used to hunt for sustenance. Eventually, he gave up the rifle and manufactured his own bow and arrows, which he used to hunt deer.[8]

Paulsen graduated from Lincoln High School in Thief River Falls, Minnesota.[9] He attended Bemidji State University, but dropped out. He served in the U.S. Army between 1959 and 1962, attaining the rank of sergeant while working with missiles. His army service brought him to New Mexico for a while, a place in which he later chose to settle.[2]

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When a 13 year old city boy crash lands in the Canadian wilderness all he is left with is a hatchet – and the need to survive. From then on he learns everything the hard way…

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From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Hatchet DB30535

Paulsen, Gary Reading time: 4 hours, 17 minutes.

Gary Tipton A production of the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, Library of Congress.

Adventure

Brian, thirteen and troubled by his parent’s divorce, is flying in a single-engine plane to visit his father. As Brian is the only passenger, the pilot casually shows him how to fly the plane. When the pilot has a heart attack and dies, Brian must take control. After the plane crashes in the Canadian wilderness, Brian has only the hatchet attached to his belt to help him survive. For grades 6-9 and older readers.

Kate’s 2¢: “State of paradise: a novel” by Laura Van den Berg

“State of paradise: a novel” by Laura Van den Berg

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    Megan Tusing Did a good job of narrating this weird, but interesting tale of reality and a parallel universe. NLS sent this to me on a cartridge of seven books.

AI Overview

Laura van den Berg is a fiction author, short story writer, and professor known for her works exploring themes of memory, identity, and place. She is the author of five works of fiction, including the novel The Third Hotel and the short story collection I Hold a Wolf by the Ears. Van den Berg lives in the Hudson Valley with her husband, Paul Yoon, and their dog, Oscar, and is a Senior Lecturer on Fiction at Harvard University. 

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Laura van den Berg (born May 31, 1983) is an American fiction writer.[1] She is the author of five works of fiction. Her first two collections of short stories were each shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award, in 2010 and 2014. In 2021, she was awarded the Strauss Livings Award from the American Academy of Arts & Letters and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Biography[edit]

Laura van den Berg was born and raised in Florida. She has a BA from Rollins College (2005) and an M.F.A. from Emerson College. Her stories have been published in The Paris Review, McSweeney’s, BOMB, Virginia Quarterly Review, Conjunctions, American Short Fiction, Ploughshares, Glimmer Train and One Story.

Her first collection of short stories, What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us, was published in 2009, and her second collection, The Isle of Youth, was published in 2013.[2][3] A third short story collection, I Hold a Wolf by the Ears, was published in 2020.[4]

Her other books include two novels, Find Me (2015) and The Third Hotel (2018),[5] which was a finalist for the Young Lions Fiction Award. Van den Berg has also published a chapbook of flash fiction, There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights (2012).[6]

Van den Berg lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband, Paul Yoon.[7][8]

She is currently a senior lecturer at Harvard University in the English Department.[9]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

State of paradise: a novel DB122955

Van den Berg, Laura Reading time: 5 hours, 37 minutes.

Megan Tusing

Suspense Fiction

General

“It’s another summer in a small Florida town. After an illness that vanishes as mysteriously as it arrived, everything appears to be getting back to normal: soul-crushing heat, torrential downpours, sinkholes swallowing the earth, ominous cats, a world-bending virtual reality device being handed out by a company called ELECTRA, and an increasing number of posters dotting the streets with the faces of missing citizens. Living in her mother’s home, a ghostwriter for a famous thriller author tracks the eerie changes. On top of everything else, she’s contending with family secrets, spotty memories of her troubled youth, a burgeoning cult in the living room, and the alarming expansion of her own belly button. Then, during a violent rainstorm, her sister goes missing. She returns a few days later, sprawled on their mother’s lawn and speaking of another dimension. Now the ghostwriter must investigate not only what happened to her sister and the other missing people but also the uncanny connections between ELECTRA, the famous author she works for, and reality itself. A sticky, rain-soaked reckoning with the elusive nature of selfhood and storytelling, Laura van den Berg’s State of Paradise is an intricate and page-turning whirlwind. With inimitable control and thrilling style, van den Berg reaches deep into the void and returns with a story far stranger than either reality or fiction.”– Amazon.com. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

Kate’s 2¢: “Silk: a world history” BY Aarathi Prasad

“Silk: a world history” BY Aarathi Prasad

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   Hannah Curtis  did a great job of narrating this book. NLS sent this to me on a cartridge of seven books. I read the title and thought: ho hum. Another boring history text.

   I found the style of writing engaging and the subjects of domestic silkworms, Wild Butterfly silk, sea silk, spider threads, and usage of other animal fibers kept my interest. I enjoyed meeting the extraordinary people and where their life-time passions took them. Fascinating!

   This was not another boring history text…If only a new silk blouse didn’t cost so much.

From the web:

Aarathi Prasad is a writer, broadcaster, and researcher. Born in London to an Indian mother who wore only silk saris and a Caribbean father who loved the natural world, Aarathi was educated in the West Indies and the UK.

from www.bookpage.com

Biologist Aarathi Prasad spins a fascinating history of a familiar fabric. Driven by obsession, Prasad records what silk can teach us about medicine, culture  and so much more.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Silk: a world history DB122831

Prasad, Aarathi Reading time: 11 hours, 47 minutes.

Hannah Curtis

Science and Technology

Animals and Wildlife

World History and Affairs

“In a gorgeous history that spans continents and millennia, Aarathi Prasad weaves together the complex story of the queen of fabrics. Through the scientists who have studied silk, and the biology of the animals from which it has been drawn, Prasad explores the global, natural, and cultural history (and future) of a unique material that has fascinated the world for thousands of years”– Provided by publisher Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

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Kate’s 2¢: “The Crash” by Freida McFadden

“The Crash” by Freida McFadden

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   Leslie Howard did a good job of narrating this gripping story. The author wanted if to be a warning about one night stands with a stranger, which it does, but the message gets convoluted. It’s quite a surprise to find out who is actually out to get her and why.

   I liked the ending, although, I’m not so sure the adopted child is getting the best mother in town.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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www.freidamcfadden.com

Freida McFadden (born May 1) is an American author and practicing physician specializing in brain injury from New York City.

Biography[edit]

McFadden self-published her first book through Amazon KDP in 2013. Her 2022 book The Housemaid was an international bestseller. A movie adaptation of the book is set to be adapted for Lionsgate with Rebecca Sonnenshine to pen the screenplay, and Hidden Pictures’ Todd Lieberman and Alex Young to produce.[1]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The crash DB127213

McFadden, Freida. Reading time: 9 hours, 17 minutes.

Read by Howard, Leslie.

Suspense Fiction

“Tegan is eight months pregnant and her world is crashing down around her. The father of her baby wants nothing to do with her and has promised to make her life hell. She’s lost her job at the convenience store. And she has no idea what she’s going to do to take care of little one. In a last ditch effort to find help and get away from the threats of her ex, Tegan heads out in a storm to drive to her brother’s. But she never arrives. Tegan wakes in a ditch, having skidded off the road. Stranded and terrified, she’s taken in by a couple living in a remote farmhouse. But they may have ulterior motives and Tegan soon realizes she’s stuck in the middle of nowhere at the mercy of strangers. The nightmare she’s running from is nothing compared to where she’s headed.”– Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

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Kate’s 2¢: “One Of Our Own: A Thriller” by Lucinda Berry

“One Of Our Own: A Thriller” by Lucinda Berry

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   Tessa Albertson and A.J. Cook did a good job of narrating this book

   The first part of this story is very interesting, but the last part is very disturbing. Parents do the best they can as they raise their children. Sometimes DNA over-powers a nurturing environment despite our best efforts.

From the web:

USA Today bestselling author, Dr. Lucinda Berry, is a former psychologist and leading researcher in childhood trauma. With millions of books worldwide, she’s written multiple bestsellers including The Perfect Child, Saving Noah, and Keep Your Friends Close.

Now, she spends her days writing full-time where she uses her clinical experience to blur the line between fiction and nonfiction.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

One of our own: a thriller DB125523

Berry, Lucinda. Reading time: 3 hours, 57 minutes.

Read by Tessa Albertson; A.J. Cook.

Suspense Fiction

Psychological Fiction

“A suicide prevention hotline volunteer answers a call that turns her world upside down in this edge-of-your-seat audio original thriller by the bestselling author of The Perfect Child and The Best of Friends, performed by A.J. Cook (Criminal Minds) and Tessa Albertson (Younger). Felicia, a single mother and lawyer by day, volunteers at a local crisis center to give back to her tightknit community in a small Wisconsin town. One night, she answers a horrifying call: through tears, a frantic teenage girl tells her that she was a victim of sexual assault at a local house party. Felicia is shocked, and breaking protocol, she begins communicating with the girl on her own, determined to keep her safe and hold her assailants accountable. But as she gets closer and closer to the truth, she can’t shake the feeling that she and the girl are connected by more than the phone call. As the girl shares more details, Felicia begins to think the unthinkable–someone close to her may be involved in this heinous crime. As Felicia earns the girl’s trust and more facts emerge about the incident, she faces a gut-wrenching battle between her protective instincts and the moral responsibility to do what’s right. This taut thriller is the perfect listen for fans of The Push, Wrong Place Wrong Time, and We Need to Talk About Kevin.”– From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Whispers” by Lisa Jackson  

“Whispers” by Lisa Jackson  

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   Alyssa Bresnahan did a good job of narrating this book. This goes to show you that if you ask three people, who witnessed the same accident, you’ll get three different accounts.

   The author did a great job of weaving perceptions in and out of the story to come up with the final picture. I enjoyed this narrative arc.

A few take-aways:

–This   exposee of the Holland family was to be his revenge and cathartic.-

From the web:

Lisa Jackson is a bestselling author, known for her romantic suspense, thrillers, and contemporary/historical romances. She is a Harlequin.com author, having written over 85 books and her books have appeared on the New York Times, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. She was born in Oregon and lives in the Pacific Northwest. 

From Wikipedia:

(• This article includes a list of references, related reading, or external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks inline citations.)

www.lisajackson.com

Susan Lisa Jackson (known as Lisa Jackson; born 1952) is an American author of over 75 romance novels and romantic suspense novels.

 (December 2018)

Jackson was a struggling mother who wrote novels with the hope that someone would pay her for them. Her books have appeared on The New York Times, the USA Today, and the Publishers Weekly national bestseller lists.[citation needed] Jackson is the author of more than 85 novels, including Afraid to Die, Tell Me, You Don’t Want to Know, Running Scared, Without Mercy, Malice, and Shiver. She is also the co-author of the Colony Series, co-written with her sister, Nancy Bush. She also writes under the pen name, “Susan Lynn Crose”.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Whispers DB126174

Jackson, Lisa. Reading time: 16 hours, 14 minutes.

Read by Alyssa Bresnahan.

Suspense Fiction

Mystery and Detective Stories

“In the chill of an Oregon night, a man plunges to his death. Another vanishes without a trace. A third drowns in the murky waters of a quiet lake. Alone in the dark, a ruthless killer is certain that every loose end has been cut, every enemy silenced except one… Be Afraid… It’s been sixteen years since Claire St. John fled in terror from her family’s home on Lake Arrowhead. Sixteen years since her fiancé’s tragic death and the shocking secret she promised never to reveal to anyone. But that was before journalist Kane Moran began probing the mystery of that horrible night, turning a light on the darkest corners of Claire’s life, exposing her once again to a cold-blooded murderer’s vicious fury… Be Very Afraid… Now, as Claire returns home to face a past she’s tried to forget, another body is unearthed, revealing the twisted nature of a killer who is ready at last to make Claire pay the ultimate price…”– Goodreads. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

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Kate’s 2¢: “Deep water: the world in the ocean” by James Bradley

“Deep water: the world in the ocean” by James Bradley

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   Stephen James King Did a good job of narrating this book. It was one of seven books sent to me by NLS on one cartridge.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

James Bradley (born May 4, 1954) is an American author from Antigo, Wisconsin,[1] specializing in historical nonfiction chronicling the Pacific theatre of World War II. His father, John Bradley, was involved in the first raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945.[2]

Biography[edit]

James Bradley was raised in Wisconsin and earned a degree in East Asian History from the University of Wisconsin.[3]

In 2000, Bradley published Flags of Our Fathers, written with the author Ron Powers, which tells the story of five US Marines and a US Navy corpsman attached to the Marines Corps (his father, John Bradley, who did not raise the second, larger flag), raising the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Seventh War Loan Drive after the battle. In that book, which spent 46 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was made into a film directed by Clint Eastwood, Bradley took great care to locate and speak with family and friends who actually knew the men depicted. In doing so, he received praise for his realistic portrayals and bringing the men involved to life.

The book and the film are in-depth looks at those involved and their war-time service. Of the six men who raised the second and larger replacement flag on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945, PhM2c. John Bradley, although he had been involved in only the first raising of a smaller flag hours before, was not involved in the second flag raising,[2] Pfc. Ira Hayes, and Pfc. Rene Gagnon were the only survivors of the battle. Sgt. Michael Strank, Cpl. Harlon Block, and Pfc. Franklin Sousley were killed in action later on in the battle. The book and film tell the story in a before, during, and after format, and both were well received upon their release. An impromptu speech Bradley, who did not raise the flag, gave at the Marine Corps War Memorial (sometimes called the Iwo Jima memorial) was transcribed by Michael T. Powers in October 2000, and widely circulated on the Internet.[4] On June 23, 2016, the United States Marine Corps identified Cpl. Harold Schultz as the sixth flag raiser for the second flag.[2]

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Deep water: the world in the ocean DB122858

Bradley, James Reading time: 14 hours, 13 minutes.

Stephen James King

Animals and Wildlife

Nature and the Environment

“In this thrilling work–a blend of history, science, nature writing, and environmentalism–acclaimed writer James Bradley plunges into the unknown to explore the deepest recesses of the natural world.Seventy-one percent of the earth’s surface is ocean. These waters created, shaped, and continue to sustain not just human life, but all life on Planet Earth, and perhaps beyond it. They serve as the stage for our cultural history–driving human development from evolution through exploration, colonialism, and the modern era of global leisure and trade. They are also the harbingers of the future–much of life on Earth cannot survive if sea levels are too low or too high, temperatures too cold or too warm. Our oceans are vast spaces of immense wonder and beauty, and our relationship to them is innate and awe inspired.Deep Water is both a lyrically written personal meditation and an intriguing wide-ranging reported epic that reckons with our complex connection to the seas. It is a story shaped by tidal movements and deep currents, lit by the insights of philosophers, scientists, artists and other great minds. Bradley takes readers from the atomic creation of the oceans, to the wonders within, such as fish migrations guided by electromagnetic sensing. He describes the impacts of human population shifts by boat and speaks directly and uncompromisingly to the environmental catastrophe that is already impacting our lives. It is also a celebration of the ocean’s glories and the extraordinary efforts of the scientists and researchers who are unlocking its secrets. These myriad strands are woven together into a tapestry of life that captures not only our relationship with the planet, but our past, and perhaps most importantly, what lies ahead for us.”– From publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

Kate’s 2¢: “Junk science and the American criminal justice system” by M. Chris Fabricant

“Junk science and the American criminal justice system” by M. Chris Fabricant

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   Chris Henry Coffey Did a good job of reading this book. It was one of seven books sent to me by NLS on one cartridge.

   We’re only human and use the most modern tools at our disposal at the time. Yet, it is amazing and frightening to look back at our history of errors.

From the WEB:

Chris Fabricant is a criminal defense attorney in New York City. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, Tonya, and their two children, Oscar and Francesca.

Chris is one of the United States’s leading experts on forensic sciences and scientific litigation. Prior to joining the Innocence Project, he was a longtime …

A former public defender and clinical law professor, Fabricant brings to his writing over two decades of experience.

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Junk science and the American criminal justice system DB122870

Fabricant, M. Chris Reading time: 10 hours, 53 minutes.

Chris Henry Coffey

Science and Technology

True Crime

Social Sciences

“From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab, forensic scientists have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers. Juries put their faith in “expert witnesses” and innocent people have been executed as a result. Innocent people are still on death row today, condemned by junk science. In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching for prisoners convicted by junk science, and three men, each convicted of capital murder, became M. Chris Fabricant’s clients. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System chronicles the fights to overturn their wrongful convictions and to end the use of the “science” that destroyed their lives. Weaving together courtroom battles from Mississippi to Texas to New York City and beyond, Fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken, racist system of justice and the role forensic science plays in maintaining the status quo. At turns gripping, enraging, illuminating, and moving, Junk Science is a meticulously researched insider’s perspective of the American criminal justice system. Previously untold stories of wrongful executions, corrupt prosecutors, and quackery masquerading as science animate Fabricant’s true crime narrative.” — Provided by publisher. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.

Kate’s 2¢: “The man in the corduroy suit” by   James Wolff

“The man in the corduroy suit” by   James Wolff

 NOTE: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as, describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ shares her thoughts about what she’s read. In her opinion…

   Guy Mott Did a good job narrating this book. It was one of seven books sent to me by NLS on one cartridge.

   I enjoyed the intrigue of it all…and I liked the ending.

From the WEB:

James Wolff is a former British intelligence officer. His first novel, Beside the Syrian Sea, was a Times Crime Book of the Month and an Evening Standard Book …

Wolff grew up in the Middle East and now lives in London. After working as a British intelligence officer for over ten years, he left government .

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

The man in the corduroy suit DB122872

Wolff, James Reading time: 8 hours, 6 minutes.

Guy Mott

Suspense Fiction

Spy Stories

“British intelligence is in a state of panic. Cracks are appearing, or so a run of disciplinary cases would suggest. To cap it all, a retired MI5 officer collapses, the victim of what looks like a Russian poisoning. Leonard Flood is ordered to investigate–and quickly. Notorious for his sharp elbows and blunt manner, Leonard’s only objective is to get the job done, whatever the cost. But when the trail leads him from the suburbs of London to a remote country hotel, he makes a startling discovery that will change his life forever.”–Back cover. Unrated. Commercial audiobook.