• Thirty-One and a Half Regrets

  • Rose Gardner Mystery, Book 4
  • By: Denise Grover Swank
  • Narrated by: Shannon McManus
  • Length: 9 hrs and 32 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (429 ratings)

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Thirty-One and a Half Regrets

By: Denise Grover Swank
Narrated by: Shannon McManus
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Publisher's summary

While Rose recovers from a broken heart, she finds herself at odds with her sister and business partner, Violet. Rose buries herself in her landscaping work but becomes worried when her employee and friend, Bruce Wayne Decker, goes missing. In the meantime Fenton County Assistant DA Mason Deveraux has been patiently waiting to begin a relationship with Rose, but she realizes she needs to confront the demons of her past before she can embrace a new future. She needs to find out the truth about her birth mother.

But her past isn't her only demon. An undercurrent of tension has been spreading through Henryetta, Arkansas, since drug lord Daniel Crocker's arrest six months ago. Still, she's not prepared for a nightmare come true: Crocker's escape from prison. Crocker carries a grudge, and he's determined to make Rose pay. But he plays a game of cat and mouse, forcing Mason and the Fenton County Sheriff's department to hide Rose on her birth mother's farm. But will it be enough to save her?

©2014 Denise Swank (P)2015 Denise Swank

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Much better than the 3rd book

Things start to heat up, Rose is acting more like a woman than a girl, and I just wish she didn't ramble on so much in her head...but you know what you're getting into after the first book. Glad not to have the smoker voice reading anymore! Rose sounds like a 24-year-old, rather than the 54-year-old, whom was narrating the last three books!

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I'm not a fan of the new narrator. The old narrator really brought Rose's character to life.

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Wonderful series!

Love this series and the new narrator is awesome!!! I’m listening to the whole series.

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Great series, made better with new narrator

I've really been enjoying this series, even though the first few books were difficult to get through with the strange accent and mispronounced words. This narrator really puts the emotion in the stories and pulls you in! can't wait to move on to the next one

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I liked the original narrator better

I just got used to the narration by Francis Fuller when it changed to Shannon McManus. She did an ok job but I liked Fuller's querks and she got so much better from the first book. The story was great, very exciting.

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Why the new narrator?!

Changing a narrator four books into a series wasn't a good move. Not to mention that this new narrator's "performance" falls flat. The voice doesn't seem to differentiate enough between characters and the tone of the narrator really has an impact on how we perceive the main character. Rose changes as a result of how this narrator reads compared to the first tgree books. Such a disappointment.

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I love Rose and her danger magnet

Once again Rose’s latest adventure kept me enthralled from the very beginning. I just love Rose - the quirkiness, the naiveté, and the good heartedness. Like the other books in this series, this story is meticulously crafted, beautifully written, and expertly delivered. I felt all of the things along with Rose - 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. She experiences visions that she’s compelled to share with the person she has them of. In this story, Rose s continuing to learn about who she is and how to live her life with friends, a new boyfriend, and a new business. In this story, Rose, of course, finds herself suddenly in the middle of the intrigue and the danger when Daniel Crocker (book 1) has escaped prison and wants to punish Rose. While Rose is being hidden away she continues to deal with unresolved issues related to her painful past. Her new boyfriend Mason, Joe, Violet, Jonah, and Bruce Wayne again play important secondary roles and help the story progress and by extension, 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 cannot wait to read what happens next in Rose’s life.

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

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This was a really good book.

I have listen to all of the books do far and I think this was the best. The characters are so easy to get to know, and care about. The story got me from the first chapter and never disappointed me. The narration was really very well done.

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So glad to have Shannon back! I struggled with the last narrator, the voice just didn’t fit.

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not as good as the last 2. Moved pretty slow

pretty slow moving, somewhat predictable. Disappointed in the overall story. This narrator is better, Arkansans don't have the accent of the previous narrator. Will try another volume or 2, hopefully it will pick up the pace

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