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A Good Day for Chardonnay
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 12 hrs and 8 mins
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Del Sol, New Mexico is known for three things: its fry-an-egg-on-the-cement summers, its strong cups of coffee - and, now, a nationwide manhunt? Del Sol native Sunshine Vicram has returned to town as the elected sheriff - thanks to her adorably meddlesome parents who nominated her - and she expects her biggest crime wave to involve an elderly flasher named Doug. But a teenage girl is missing, a kidnapper is on the loose, and all of this is reminding Sunshine why she left Del Sol in the first place.
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darynda does it again
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Love love love!
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I like this series.
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Not to shabby
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Wait what?
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best installment so far!!
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Some people greet the day with open arms. Sheriff Sunshine Vicram would rather give it a hearty shove and get back into bed, because there’s just too much going on right now. There’s a series of women going missing, and Sunny feels powerless to stop it. There’s her persistent and awesomely-rebellious daughter Auri, who’s out to singlehandedly become Del Sol’s youngest and fiercest investigator. And then there’s drama with Levi Ravinder—the guy she’s loved and lusted after for years. The guy who comes from a family of vipers looking to oust him—and Sunshine—for good.
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Love love love!
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Forty-something Defiance Dayne only recently discovered she comes from a long line of powerful witches. Added to that was the teensy, infinitesimal fact that she is what's called a charmling. One of three on the entire planet. And there are other witches who will stop at nothing to steal her immense power, which would basically involve her unfortunate and untimely death.
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I like this series.
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Not to shabby
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Wait what?
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Fourth Grave Beneath My Feet
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best installment so far!!
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Second Grave on the Left
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When Charley is rudely awakened in the middle of the night by her best friend who tells her to get dressed quickly and tosses clothes out of the closet at her, she can’t help but wonder what Cookie’s up to. Leather scrunch boots with a floral miniskirt? Together? Seriously? Cookie explains that a friend of hers named Mimi disappeared five days earlier and that she just got a text from her setting up a meet at a coffee shop downtown....
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Soo enthralling!
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Divorced, desperate, and destitute, former restaurateur Defiance Dayne finds out she has been bequeathed a house by a complete stranger. She is surprised, to say the least, and her curiosity gets the better of her. She leaves her beloved Phoenix and heads to one of the most infamous towns in America: Salem, Massachusetts. She's only there to find out why a woman she's never met would leave her a house, a veritable castle that has seen better days.
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Looking Forward to Next Book
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A smashing, award-winning debut novel that introduces Charley Davidson: part-time private investigator and full-time Grim Reaper. Charley sees dead people. That’s right, she sees dead people. And it’s her job to convince them to “go into the light”. But when these very dead people have died under less than ideal circumstances (i.e. murder), sometimes they want Charley to bring the bad guys to justice. Complicating matters are the intensely hot dreams she’s been having about an Entity who has been following her all her life...and it turns out he might not be dead after all.
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Love this series
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Charley has more on her plate than a mob of testy hellhounds. For one thing, her father has disappeared, and the more she retraces his last steps, the more she learns he was conducting an investigation of his own, one that has Charley questioning everything she's ever known about him.
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I liked the book but Im taking a break
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Written by: Darynda Jones
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Fifth Grave Past the Light
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Charley Davidson isn’t your everyday, run-of-the-mill grim reaper. She’s more of a paranormal private eye/grim reaper extraordinaire. However, she gets sidetracked when the sexy, sultry son of Satan, Reyes Farrow, moves in next door. To further complicate matters, Reyes is her main suspect in an arson case. Charley has vowed to stay away from him until she can find out the truth... but then dead women start appearing in her apartment, one after another, each lost, confused, and terrified beyond reason.
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great installment!
- By Kristin on 2022-11-15
Written by: Darynda Jones
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The Graveyard Shift
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Garrett Swopes was the ultimate skeptic until he met a certain hellion and her husband. They vanished after stopping a catastrophic event and left him, a mere mortal, in charge of protecting their gift to mankind. But when she disappears as well, he needs the help of another breed of hellion. One who can see past the veil of space and time. One who betrayed him.
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The Gravedigger's Son
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The job should have been easy. Get in. Assess the situation. Get out. But for veteran tracker Quentin Rutherford, things get sticky when the girl he’s loved since puberty shows up, conducting her own investigation into the strange occurrences of the small, New Mexico town. He knew it would be a risk coming back to the area, but he had no idea Amber Kowalski had become a bona fide PI, investigating things that go bump in the night.
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Amber and Quentin
- By Frances on 2021-05-25
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The Curse of Tenth Grave
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- Written by: Darynda Jones
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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As a part-time PI and full-time grim reaper, Charley Davidson has asked a lot of questions throughout her life: Why can I see dead people? Who is the hot supernatural entity following me? How do I get gum out of my sister's hair before she wakes up? But "how do I trap not one malevolent god but three?" was never among them. Until now. And since those gods are on earth to kill her daughter, she has little choice but to track them down, trap them, and cast them from this dimension. There's just one problem. One of the three stole her heart a very long time ago.
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The Dirt on Ninth Grave
- Written by: Darynda Jones
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins
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In a small village in New York, Charley Davidson is living as Jane Doe, a girl with no memory of who she is or where she came from. So when she is working at a diner and slowly begins to realize she can see dead people, she's more than a little taken aback. Stranger still are the people entering her life. They seem to know things about her. Things they hide with lies and half truths. Soon she senses something far darker. A force that wants to cause her harm, she is sure of it.
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THE BEST INSTALLMENT YET
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Written by: Darynda Jones
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Sixth Grave on the Edge
- Charley Davidson, Book 6
- Written by: Darynda Jones
- Narrated by: Lorelei King
- Length: 9 hrs and 46 mins
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Most girls might think twice before getting engaged to someone like Reyes Farrow - but Charley Davidson is not most girls. She’s a paranormal private eye and grim-reaper-in-training who’s known to be a bit of a hell-raiser, especially after a few shots of caffeine. Her beloved Reyes may be the only begotten son of evil, but he’s dark and sultry and deeply sexy and everything Charley could hope for. Really. But when the FBI file on Reyes’ childhood happens to land into her lap, she can’t help herself: She opens it...and then the real fun begins.
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Another great installment
- By Macy Fralick on 2022-01-05
Written by: Darynda Jones
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Midlife Magic Hunter
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- Length: 7 hrs and 52 mins
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You know, dating in your 40s should be easier. Should be. But it really isn’t. My first date in I don’t-know-how-long is broken up by my ex-husband. I mean, he’s dead, but still. Then a cryptic note from a voodoo queen. A siren who can’t keep it in his pants. And a hot fae who seems to be everything I’ve ever wanted. Except that he’s not a certain blacksmith. I can deal, right?
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Oh my goodness!
- By Macy Fralick on 2023-01-02
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Moonlight and Magic
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Fortysomething Annette Osmund always knew she was psychic. She's not, but that didn't stop her from giving those nonexistent abilities her all. What she is, however, is a very powerful witch who has just inherited magics she never dreamed possible. Starting over in a new town with her BFF has been an adventure. Defiance's status as a powerful type of witch called a charmling has kept Annette busy. But while Deph, a seeker, is still learning to use her magics, to control the power at her fingertips, Annette is overcome with powers of her own.
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Why isn’t it longer?!
- By Sarah Dika on 2022-12-28
Written by: Darynda Jones
Publisher's Summary
From the New York Times best-selling author Darynda Jones comes the second novel in her laugh-out-loud Sunshine Vicram mystery series, A Good Day for Chardonnay.
Running a small-town police force in the mountains of New Mexico should be a smooth, carefree kind of job. Sadly, full-time Sheriff - and even fuller-time coffee guzzler - Sunshine Vicram didn't get that memo.
All Sunshine really wants is one easygoing day. You know, the kind that starts with coffee and a donut (or three) and ends with takeout pizza and a glass of chardonnay (or seven). Turns out, that’s about as easy as switching to decaf. (What kind of people do that? And who hurt them?)
Before she can say iced mocha latte, Sunny's got a bar fight gone bad, a teenage daughter hunting a serial killer and, oh yes, the still unresolved mystery of her own abduction years prior. All evidence points to a local distiller, a dangerous bad boy named Levi Ravinder, but Sun knows he's not the villain of her story. Still, perhaps beneath it all, he possesses the keys to her disappearance. At the very least, beneath it all, he possesses a serious set of abs. She's seen it. Once. Accidentally.
Between policing a town her hunky chief deputy calls four cents short of a nickel, that pesky crush she has on Levi that seems to grow exponentially every day, and an irascible raccoon that just doesn't know when to quit, Sunny's life is about to rocket to a whole new level of crazy.
Yep, definitely a good day for chardonnay.
A Macmillan Audio production from St. Martin's Press
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-10-10
Absolutely fantastic
I am loving this series and cannot wit for book 3! Sunshine is a great lead character and I cannot wait to hear where this story takes us as readers.
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- GS
- 2021-10-02
A fun read!
Darynda doing what she does best! I've already listened to it twice. Lorelei is the best narrator around.
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- Frances
- 2021-08-07
A good day to read A Good Day for Chardonnay
The good day to read A Good Day for Chardonnay is as soon as you can after A Bad Day for Sunshine. I think it is pretty important to read A Bad Day first to understand some of the plot in this second in the series. What I found is I was often surprised. I wasn’t able to figure out the outcomes before they happened. Maybe I was just dense. The end of the book mans a third book is planned or underway. I can’t wait.
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- Rapp
- 2021-08-07
Loved!
A bar fight gone bad. A hunt for a killer. A pesky crush that Sunshinep just can't shake. A sneaky raccoon and tenacious teens. Dangerous Daughters. Darynda Jones has a way of luring you in and making you never want to leave. I can't wait to see what comes next
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- Linda
- 2021-08-15
Pornography is offensive!
I loved it, UNTIL a very graphic, descriptive sex scene was introduced towards the end of the book. I look for books to enjoy. I don't want to be given a visual of someone else's sexual encounters! I won't be ordering from this author again.
4 people found this helpful
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- Michelle
- 2021-09-23
Wow, this was bad
The first book in this series was light and entertaining, but the characters seemed to have lost their brains between the first and second books. Every man can't be this perfect and every woman can't be this weak-kneed. The main character is a sheriff and seems to be falling apart every time a chiseled man comes in the room. And her 15-year old daughter is the same.
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- Karen-Lee
- 2021-08-10
Awesome
I love Darynda Jones books. I have all her first series in hard cover. This one has captured all the hilarity and joy of the first. Thx.
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- Christina
- 2021-08-12
Then the sex ruined the family setting why?
Then the sex ruined the family setting why?
It was already such a good story and then the description of so graphic.
Warning would of been good
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- Skywriter
- 2021-08-04
Spoiler Alert
love these characters. love the humor and the seriousness. but a cliffhanger, give me a completed book!!!!! VERY VERY disappointed in the ending!!!!!!!! Unless you've got the next book in the series at the publishers, complete the one that's printed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-07-30
Feel let down
Loved the book but feel empty by the ending. Ribbed from the very thing I was waiting for Levi’s reaction. Two books many months and I’m let down
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- Carrie cummings
- 2021-07-30
Sunshine is awesome!
omg i love Sunshine, and the whole wacky group! The ending just conformed what I thought!
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- chris
- 2021-12-04
disappointing!
the first book in the series was fun and entertaining. this was vulgar sex and implausible plotlines.
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- Cristi
- 2021-11-17
Doesn’t Deliver
I really liked the first book and was looking forward to the second. Unfortunately this book does not deliver on the first book’s promise. The story continues with a new story and some of the mysteries of the first book but the whole thing becomes overblown. The new storyline gets resolved but the book continues for several more chapters. It starts to feel like 2 separate books.
SPOILER ALERT: First of all, one of the best characters who played a huge part in book number one is almost never mentioned in book number two. What happened to the deputy sniper? Secondly what was with the explicit sex scene? While there was fun sexual tension throughout the both books, having a graphic sex scene at the end of the book 2 really came out of nowhere. I like hot romance but it needs to fit the style of the book. This did not fit book 1 or book 2. Third there were to many convenient endings to several storylines. Characters who are built up as villains in both books suddenly had hearts of gold and were working to the good of the community behind the scenes. It was all a misunderstanding? What?
Bottom line, the story just became too long with too many extraneous characters and too many plot lines. Usually I don’t want books to end but this book felt like it would never end. Very disappointing.
(I also agree with several of the reviews regarding the daughter.)
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