What a wonderful Upper West Side between Broadway and Central Park West in the 70s voice to listen to .... when you're on a boat to Kabul or Talibaq. Close your eyes and you can see the doormen, the yellowHope to Die by Lawrence Block

A sweet, adorable, clever story about a beautiful and beautifully mannered ex Miss Alabama who has decided to jump in the river. Maggie has made a list of pros and cons and the pros have won out. For months, MaggieI Still Dream About You by Fannie Flagg read by Fannie Flagg

The relentless decomposition of the Oznard family has left Andrew in the position of so many young Englishmen, who had, for the first time in centuries, to feed themselves. Young Andrew had thus determined from an early age that heThe Tailor of Panama read by John Le Carre read by Le Carre

How fun to be a stubborn, sensible English widow who takes up decorating or hotelkeeping or moves to Brighton. The kind of fun that takes time: not like those television garden shows that demonstrate "how to transform an entire gardenElvi Rhodes A House By the Sea read by Anne Dover

What starts up as an Insider's Guide to storage in L.A. develops into a diary by Holden Caulfield's bitch-sister, grown up into another alienated and out of joint L.A. wife. Judith was a thoroughly unpleasant daughter with a borderlineTo Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal narrated by Susan Boyce

There is a kind of being found among artists, a being-with peculiar to art school graduates, children of artists, girlfriends of artists, gallery owners and oglers and agents and wives, proximate to art, attached to it but uncertainThe Forgery of Venus by Michael Gruber read by Eric Conger

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

Do you believe the people who write the back page summaries of bestselling audio CDs actually listen to the CDs? I don't. The girl left alive after the cult murder of her family has very little to do withThe Sleeping Doll by Jeffrey Deaver read by Anne Twomey

Read by Stephen Lang who is good doing liddle giwls and the monotones of the personal(it)y disordered but not wonderful doing Barty who is (we guess) the hero. Unless the real hero is: the theory of quantum mechanics as interpreted by FeynmanFrom the Corner of His Eye by Dean Koontz read by Stephen Lang

It is not  obvious that what happens to English in L.A. is natural, because what is natural in California is not natural anywhere else. But if nature is not local, what is?  What localizes language? Why does Hollywood Nate understandHollywood Moon by Joseph Wambaugh

I am reading, no hearing, a beautiful book where a photograph is described: This is us when we are happy is not the message that Alice Roosevelt's wedding delivers...and unlike Alice Roosevelt who continued to be an unrepentant thornThe Shadow Catcher by Marianne Wiggins read by Bernadette Dunne (!)

An insider's view of the pentagon: Three of the four military services have their headquarters within these walls... The underlying idea is that proximity will force the services to work together in neighborly harmony.Man in the Middle by Brian Haig read by L.J. Ganser

Who is this the  multi tempered red-headed irish blooded vixen who drives mild-mannered priests and gentle men toward madness and reproduction... appearing over and again in Greeley's work-- ( Sister? Aunt? Teacher? Mother?) GET the nabridged narration by JONATHAN MAROSZ(!) andWhite Smoke by Andrew Greeley read by Jonathan Marosz

Forget Harley Street. The latest design in shrinks is a six foot 250 pound lesbian weight lifter who runs a pub with her bosomy girlfriend, and offers bed, morning after breakfast, and laundry service. This is what the 21stThe Chameleon's Shadow by Minette Walters read by Simon Vance

Matt Payne is back, attracting bullets and bad guys and the failed sons and daughters of old Philadelphian society, and WEB Griffin is in fine form in the digital age, as romantic and jolly as always. But instead ofThe Traffickers by W.E.B. Griffin read by Scott Brick