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  • Twenty-Nine and a Half Reasons

  • Rose Gardner Mystery, Book 2
  • By: Denise Grover Swank
  • Narrated by: Shannon McManus
  • Length: 9 hrs and 53 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (171 ratings)

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Twenty-Nine and a Half Reasons

By: Denise Grover Swank
Narrated by: Shannon McManus
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The second book in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today best-selling Rose Gardner Mystery series.

One wrongly accused man. Twenty-nine reasons for Rose to clear his name. When Rose reports for Fenton County jury duty, she figures she’s lucky to get out of a morning working at the DMV. Instead, despite a disastrous encounter with the new assistant district attorney, Mason Deveraux, she’s picked as a juror on a murder case. As the trial progresses, she realizes an ominous vision she had in the men’s restroom proves the defendant is innocent. And there’s not a cotton picking thing she can do about it. Or is there?

As if things weren’t bad enough, Rose’s older sister Violet is going through a mid-life crisis. Violet insists that Rose stop seeing her sexy new boyfriend, Arkansas state detective Joe Simmons, and date other men. Rose is done letting people boss her around, but she can’t commit to Joe either. Still, Rose isn’t about to let the best thing in her life slip away.

©2012 Denise Grover Swank (P)2021 Denise Grover Swank
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I absolutely love this series!

The Rose Gardner series is such a wonderful read! It has humor, love but not smut, sister drama, and lots of twists and turns! The audible version is a great listen and very entertaining! On to the next one!

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Second story!

Second story did not disappoint. Excited to start the next in the series, to see what shenanigans are find there.

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Another Rose crime solving adventure

Phew. I just love Rose. All the quirky. All the naiveté. All the good heartedness. Can I give more than 5 stars? It really needs more stars. This meticulously crafted, beautifully written, and expertly delivered story packs quite an emotional punch. The story kept me captivated from the first word until the last. Along the way, I felt all of Rose’s feelings as she experienced them - laughing, crying, swooning, cringing, teeth gritting, angry stomping, hyperventilating, and cheering. Rose is a 24 year old women living in a nosy closed minded small town. Rose experiences visions that she’s compelled to share with the person she has them of. She led a small life dictated by her recently deceased mother (book 1 in the series) and her experiences of being “weird. Now she is learning to live life for the first time. In this story, Rose is selected for jury duty and because of a vision, believes the defendant is innocent. While Rose struggles with what to do, she continues to try to embrace her new freedoms despite her fear all the while dealing with danger, mystery, and shocking revelations. Her boyfriend Joe and her sister Violet again play major secondary characters roles in this book and help Rose’s character grow. The book has a little bit of everything - sweet moments, exciting action, danger, family drama, painful pasts, mystery, evil actors, plot twists, imperfect characters, and even a few chuckles. I am excited to read more of Rose’s adventures.

Shannon McManus did a good job narrating the story and characters into life with enough change of inflection, tone and cadence to voice multiple characters fairly convincingly.

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Great read or listen. Lol

I really enjoyed the first two books. The author did a great job of catching my attention and keeping it throughout the book. Can’t wait to see what Rose gets into in the next book.

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Another amazing series

Unlike any other author, I jus t cannot get enough of Denise Grover Swank’s mystery series! Suspense, gossip, rumors, twists and flirtation!

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Shannon McManus saved the day!

This is book 3 of my favorite book series of all time. However, we didn’t really have a good recording for the Audible version of the first three books because they were recorded by someone else who just really wasn’t as good and sounded old, and so unlike the twenty-four year old main character. Shannon McManus did such a great job on this fun cozy romance. Thanks to the author for recasting the audio version!

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So good

Glad this audible was redone with Shannon. She does such a great job! And the story continues…such a wonderful series!

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fun book

I enjoyed this series of humor, romance and drama. The characters are always interesting and actually pretty funny. The narration was really very well done.

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spoilers

Loved the first few but did not like the path Joe was taken will not buy or read anymore. Love triangle story bad family all been done before

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