Strega

My boyfriend and I just got back from our yearly trip to Mackinaw Island. We love to go, but the drive can be excruciating! This year I decided to bring a few audiobooks and have him listen to one for the first time. He isn’t a big reader and I was very interested in finding out if audiobooks would be something he enjoyed. Well, he ended up choosing Strega by Andrew Vachss, which is the one I was secretly hoping he would pick! (I promise, there was no persuasion!) I was excited because I had just finished listening to Flood which is the first book in the Burke series.

I really enjoyed listening to the second in the series as the characters and the plot were much easier to understand and visualize. It was almost like visiting an old friend you haven’t seen in a while. I haven’t listened or read many series, so I was curious to see if I would enjoy learning more about the characters and I did!

In this book, Burke who is a non licensed private investigator hooks a case involving child pornography (not the most enlightening topic for a road trip) and seeks to find out what scumbags are responsible for taking a grotesque picture of a little boy. He gets his mismatched crew together and hits the streets of New York City.

The books in this series are quite serious, but none the less are well worth a listen. I look forward to listening to the third book Blue Belle, and updating my boyfriend on the crazy world these characters call home. All in all listening to Strega made a long car ride with a companion that is not very talkative much much better!

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