Bennie's office of girls has moved uptown, and become a good hair office. The Good Italian Catholic girl and the Giant California Blonde combine glib girly gall with smart search skills to reconstruct, redress and prosecute a 60 yearLisa Scottoline read by Kate Burton:: Mary goes to Missoula

"Dear Chatter: To answer your question, when a Southerner looks at you with a blank smile and doesn't answer you right away, it's because he doesn't trust you and he's lookin' you over and seein' how much damage you canSouthern Living by Ad Hudler read by Cynthia Darlow

No, this is not a book about a new pope. It is about a Roman Catholic arson investigator-ette. Of course, she's blonde. And she has a huge, overprotective, overloving and overlovable family who teach us right and wrong andJoyce Bean reads Nora Roberts: Blue Smoke

If you walk into a bar and hear a bunch of guys wondering about why angels have to sit on clouds "as if they don't got chairs in heaven," you're probably in a Dortmunder novel. If the guys are hunchedMetaphors as Politics: Donald Westlake: Watch Your Back!

Good defense attorneys are familiar with the figures of vulnerability: the good father of a mad, ungrateful daughter, the young grieving widow, the secretary who knows too much. And they are familiar with the figures of corruption: theThe Suspect by John Lescroart read by David Collacci

A catholic tailor used his life savings to go to the Vatican. When he returned his parish gathered to find out what he had seen. "What kind of a fellow is the Pope?" they asked him. "44 Medium,"Warren Buffet's Management Secrets by Mary Buffett & David Clark. Performed by Mary Buffett.

I know girls who listen to Frank doing the girl-punk-slut Sylvie just to see how its done. How a girl talks when shes talking with her pussy. How to tease an ear with a tongue, at a distance. There's nobodyMean High Tide by James Hall read by Frank Muller

Not since James Bond have we witnessed such a "spectacular mesomorph, built of  nothing except large quantities of bone, sinew and muscle." Indeed, his body introduces him: ...with his shirt off  most people saw only his scars. He had a dozenLee Child's Jack Reacher in Nothing to Lose read by Dick Hill

A nice little vignette of malicious 1990's life with its Coke, its Sexual Saturation & its top of the mornin' Fuck You Very Much Sadism. P.I. ex-con Harding is hired to track and video rich respected Plastic Surgeon & wife-beater in the courseThis Far No Further by John Wessel read by Richard Ferrone

A very clever book, horribly named. Holly the perky divorced real estate agent shows Bill a very very big house after Bill's partner tells him to buy Tara for their new law office. "Think what this house says about the peoplePMS Outlaws::Sharyn McCrumb read by Barbara Rosenblat

Lottie, Director of the local Historical Society, is assembling the memories and diaries of the townsfolk into a local history.  She is also stirring up the dust of very old emotions, old enmities, old wrongs. The old families get hysterical andDeadly Descent by Charlotte Hinger read by Karen White

There is a ghoulish, golemic, East European element that surfaces in the life of every dishy Jewish blonde A.D.A. in NYC. A specific perversion, a senselessness knocks at her door just before it becomes evil, or criminal, or comic. Linda Fairstein Death Dance read by Barbara Rosenblat

A book for a long inside day waiting for a hurricane or a war.... about a man wired by a dream not necessarily of being a cop but of being the good guy in the uniform, a hacker-ette, and a dog..... andRivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz read by

Well crafted words read by a dulled, depressed and depressing voice. Read it instead.Paint it Black by Janet Fitch read by Jennifer Jason Leigh

Has anyone else noticed a spectacular and embarrassing  silliness among the old guard of East Coast scribblers? As though they were trying to write comic books, and couldn't figure out how to convert text into images? Gone are the wry,Capture by Robert Tanenbaum read by Charles Leggett