Welcome to the May 2018 Audio Book of the Month Winners!
The top two will go through to the Audio of the Year Poll!
FIRST PLACE:
The Art of Murder (Books 1-2) by Josh Lanyon (Author) & Kale Williams (Narrator)
Reviewed by Annika
This is a Series Review of The Art of Murder Series (Books 1 – 2 )
AUTHOR: Josh Lanyon
PUBLISHER: JustJoshin Publishing Inc.
NARRATOR: Kale Williams
TITLE: The Murmaid Murders 
LENGTH: 7 hours, 31 minutes
RELEASE DATE: October 7, 2016
BLURB:
Special Agent Jason West is seconded from the FBI Art Crime Team to temporarily partner with disgraced, legendary “manhunter” Sam Kennedy when it appears that Kennedy’s most famous case, the capture and conviction of a serial killer known as The Huntsman, may actually have been a disastrous failure.
For The Huntsman is still out there… and the killing has begun again.
TITLE: The Monet Murders
LENGTH: 8 hours, 57 minutes
RELEASE DATE: September 20, 2017
BLURB:
Jason West and Sam Kennedy are back!
All those late night conversations when Sam had maybe a drink too many or Jason was half falling asleep. All those playful, provocative comments about what they’d do when they finally met up again.
Well, here they were.
The last thing Jason West, an ambitious young FBI Special Agent with the Art Crimes Team, wants – or needs – is his uncertain and unacknowledged romantic relationship with irascible legendary Behavioral Analysis Unit Chief Sam Kennedy.
And it’s starting to feel like Sam is not thrilled with the idea either.
But personal feelings must be put aside when Sam requests Jason’s help to catch a deranged killer targeting wealthy, upscale art collectors. A killer whose calling card is a series of grotesque paintings depicting the murders.
SECOND PLACE:
Sanctuary Found (Pelican Bay #2) by Sloane Kennedy (Author) & Michael Pauley (Narrator)
Reviewed by Annika
TITLE: Sanctuary Found 
SERIES: Pelican Bay #2
AUTHOR: Sloane Kennedy
NARRATOR: Michael Pauley
PUBLISHER: Self Published
RELEASE DATE: April 20, 2018
LENGTH: 9 hours, 13 minutes
BLURB:
Coming home should be the easiest thing in the world, but I’ve never felt more lost….
When his stellar military career comes to an abrupt and terrible end, 32-year-old Maddox Kent returns to the town he never planned to step foot into again, hoping to mend the rift he himself caused with the brother he left behind. But coming home means facing some hard truths about himself and his actions. When he has the chance to start making amends by helping his brother with the wildlife sanctuary he runs, Maddox is thrown another curveball when a stranger appears….
As long as we keep moving, everything will be okay. That’s what I keep telling myself, anyway….
For 21-year-old Isaac, Pelican Bay is only supposed to be a stopping point on the trek from San Francisco to New York. With his little brother, Newt, in tow, Isaac is just looking to make things right by returning something of value to a person he wronged. But “getting lost” in the next big city proves to be a problem when the brutal Minnesota winter claims Isaac’s car and strands him and Newt at the animal sanctuary. When the owners of the place offer him a job, a desperate Isaac agrees, despite the presence of a man Isaac instinctively knows could be his downfall….
It should be so easy to let him go, but I can’t. And not just because I want to protect him….
Nothing about Isaac makes sense to Maddox. Not his piercings or makeup or flashy clothes. And most certainly not the snarky mouth that doesn’t match the vulnerability Maddox sees in the younger man’s eyes. But one thing does make sense to the hardened former soldier. Isaac is running from something, and Maddox’s gut is telling him not to let Isaac and little Newt go until he can ferret out the truth.
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE WINNERS!
Here is the final vote total: