Some divorced women move to New Hampshire and open bookstores. Tricia is a picky, possessive, mulish melancholic who stumbles into murder and mayhem in the most pastoral and unexciting of New England towns, re-invented as "Booktown" for its a sweetSentenced to Death by Lorna Barrett read by Cassandra Campbell

Here's the recipe: a youngish, pretty-ish, orphaned wife in or near Manhattan; a deceptive, felonious, or sleepwalking husband; a repressed or forgotten family scene, and wealth. Large, plush estates in tony suburbs, classic co-ops on exclusive avenues, perfectlyMary Higgins Clark...

Before Patricia Cornwell, before CSI, did anybody read dead bodies or examine them for traces of their killer? Yes, as it happens. Where there are bodies, there are secrets and where there are secrets, there are readers. Gaudinus theThe Mistress of the Art of the Dead by Ariana Franklin read by Roslyn Landor

An intimate look at the arrangements, organization and order of small town French village life, through the eyes of the jovial, wise and well fed chief of police, for "...not  a single pig made it to market without some partBruno, Chief of Police by Martin Walker read by Robert Ian MacKenzie

How did Muller know that the text could sound like this? How could he make words talk like this? And yet he does. Muller turns them up and over and around so that each one cries out: Me, look!Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy by John Le Carre read by FRANK MULLER. An Original.

Archives: October 2004 Thu Oct 21, 2004 Trace by Patricia Cornwell read by Kate Reading "Let's start the day with a reminder of our boundaries, Henry." Indeed. But some boundaries are more forgettable than others... Consider, for example, the boundaries between Scarpetta andArchives October 2004

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 (!)

Why isn't this a Doris Day movie? Perhaps because Rock Hudson would never have accumulated old washing machines and bowling balls in the garage; and Doris Day's anger never lasted longer than a bubble bath. Otherwise, Doris Day could haveSearching for Paradise in Parker, PA by Kris Radish read by Barbara McCullough

Sun Mar 07, 2004 Forty years ago, this would have been a Sandra Dee movie. Rock Hudson would have played the smart, rich, charming, befuddled and gorgeous groom; a french actress would have played the loopy, eternally foreign mother, and ChevalierManeater by Gigi Levangie Granger read by Uma Thurman

"Salander was not a normal person." Bandied about from one institution to another,  she has a casebook full of entries written by social workers, psychiatrists, administrators: serious Swedish officials. Because she does not speak, she is assumed to be stupid.The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson read by Simon Vance

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 house too old, with too many rooms and too many academics -- all the elements of a ghost story, without a ghost.  Summer dissolves into eating, gardening, coupling, and conjecture: who is in the house?Someone in the House by Barbara Michaels read by Barbara Rosenblat

Once upon a time, in a movie made long  ago, there was a beautiful fairy who helped a poor little girl. You do not remember the movie. You remember the voice. It is the voice of Mary Peiffer. This time theMary Peiffer reading Sue Henry

It is truly comforting to hear good old Tony Roberts playing good old Stone Barrington sitting at good old Elaine's on 88th and Second, looking at the girls again, working another case. Stone is hungry. Hungrier than usual,  forFresh Disasters by Stuart Woods read by Tony Roberts

One reads, and reads, and reads... and one forgets how good it feels to consider the world through the jolly eyes of a clever and forgiving judge. P.D. James, for example. Consider the small Anglican college of St Alselm's, faithfulDeath in Holy Orders by P.D. James Narrated by Charles Keating