A Darker Place by Jack Higgins

Adventure soap opera, entertainment you quickly forget. Looking forward to the next.

Beekeeping for Beginners by Laurie R. King

Fun short story, nice to see King writing about Holmes again.

Rough Justice by Jack Higgins

Enjoyable - try Higgins again. Very hard to tell which character is talking as the narrator has an english accent and there are English and American lead characters.

Phantom Prey by John Sandford

This is the 23rd of the currently 24 books in the Lucas Davenport series that I've read and its the weakest - but still enjoyable.

The Dawn Patrol by Don Winslow

OK, a bit corny on the surf lingo.

A Plague of Secrets by John Lescroart

Very good court action. Dismas Hardy series is worth looking into.

Dogtripping by David Rosenfelt

Sweet but a little drawn out describing so many of his pets over the years. If you're an over the top dog wacko you might enjoy this. I did.

The Director by David Ignatius

Pretty good, too long. Interesting characters. PW Graham Weber has been director of the CIA for less than a week when a Swiss kid in a dirty T-shirt walks into the American consulate in Hamburg and says the agency has been hacked, and he has a list of agents' names to prove it. This is the moment a CIA director most dreads. Weber isn' t sure where to turn until he meets a charismatic (and unstable) young man named James Morris who runs the Internet Operations Center. He' s the CIA' s in-house geek. Weber launches Morris on a mole hunt unlike anything in spy fiction - one that takes the listener into the hacker underground of Europe and America and ends up in a landscape of paranoia and betrayal.

Rogue Island by Bruce DeSilva

The first book in the Liam Mulligan series (currently 3 books in the series) is enjoyable on par with the second. I look forward to hearing the 3rd. PW Liam Mulligan is as old school as a newspaper man gets. His beat is Providence, Rhode Island, and he knows every street and alley. He knows the priests and prostitutes, the cops and street thugs. He knows the mobsters and politicians--who are pretty much one and the same. Someone is systematically burning down the neighborhood Mulligan grew up in, people he knows and loves are perishing in the flames, and the public is on the verge of panic.

Full Force and Effect: A Jack Ryan Novel by Mark Greaney

Too long with disjointed segments. Poorly edited, typical Greaney style. The Jack Ryan series had great narration with Lou Diamond Phillips and was much less enjoyable with Scott Brick.