Cross Your Heart and Hope He Dies by Jenny Elder Moke (Jan 20, 2025) Thank you, @macmillan.audio for the #gifted advanced listening copy! #macaudio2025
Publishing exec Juliette Winters doesn’t have time for love or friendships. She’s too busy trying to keep the publishing company afloat and if she can finally get her hands on the tell-all memoir of wealthy businessmen Warren Ellingham, she’ll have a bestseller. But then Warren drops dead on his super yacht and and memoir disappears. Juliette suspects foul play and enlists the begrudging help of Dr. Charlie Hawkins to investigate the underbelly of Pacific Pines Country Club, where it seems like all the rich people are behaving badly and almost everyone has a motive.
The first book in this connected series, She Doesn’t Have a Clue, was one of my favorite books of January 2025 – I was so excited to jump back in with these quirky characters and Jenny’s uniquely charming sense of humor. It is a swoon-worthy opposites attract romance, a story about friendship, and a murder mystery all wrapped in the country club world of rich people behaving very badly. It was a ton of fun!
🎧 Audiobook Thoughts: Sarah Mollo-Christensen is back narrating this second book in the series and I’ll say exactly what I did with the last book – I could swear this is a duet narration, that’s how good she is at creating voices, which is saying something because although set in Seattle, both Charlie and his brother Jake (Jake is the MMC in book one) come with heavy Australian accents. A perfect mystery-romance audio romp! (10 hrs and 24 mins)
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