The skinny long legged girl with patch pockets shimmies down the fire escape to meet him, and hovers just a little bit above the ground, hanging, swinging above Castle street, in his dream, and forty years ago. After the dream,Butchers Hill by Laura Lippman ready by Deborah Hazlett

Couples. Kellerman's shrink narrator is full of meticulous, obsessive, data-driven characterizations of L.A. couples and couplings. Milos and Rick, for instance. Rick gets his hair trimmed every two weeks at a high priced West Hollywood salon. Milos drives every twoKellerman's Gone

Your average everyday Mohammedan maniac, trained by your friendly neighbourhood terrorist, puts on a baseball cap,whistles 'Freebird' and disintegrates the 14th street bridge, the Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, and suburban D.C. before his Tourist Visa even expires. Welcome to America, stay as long as youThe Enemy Within by Larry Bond read by Michael Russotto

Ever since Tracy Ullmann quipped that being in your early 50s was a wonderful time for most actresses, I've been watching for a script. Here it is. The next Meryl Streep movie: what better role for an over 50 actressFly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner read by Judith Light

Connor O'Brien, our man in Pluto, does Tanenbaum, and all of his staggeringly brilliant, souls: Butch Karp, ex pro basketball player & New York A.D.A.; Mar-LENE, his smart, sexy, Sicilian one-eyed private eye wife; ex-cop Dead Harry, who props upIRRESISTABLE IMPULSE by Robert K Tanenbaum::Connor O'Brien

We find the troublesome, 62 year old Detective Inspector in bed after a back operation, popping Percocets and abusing the hospitality of her ex-husband's new wife. Within a week she is thigh deep in a case ofThe Taken by Inger Ash Wolf, read by Bernadette Dunne

Another Wall Street soap opera about bourgeois boomie pretty boys in big trouble. Yes, we've got a situation here, as the Denver cops would say. Time to grab a big blonde with an MBA, rent a car, empty your bank account, and run.The Takeover by Stephen Frey read by Paul Hecht

Sit down at the kitchen table, have a cup of tea, and listen to the gossip, the rumours, the superstitions, the confabulations and conjurations of the people living in the village near Saint Anne's well, in the magic woodsMaeve Binchy Whitethorn Woods read by Jenny Sterlin

Not all old women from the South are funny. Only the ones who know what they don't want, and what they want: All I want in this life is a reasonable man who's self supporting, who's nice to me, funny, youThe Land of Mango Sunsets by Dorothea Benton Frank read by Nanette Savard

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

Slow, cloddish, cumbersome and overcooked dialogue stretches across this morality play about an ugly presidential election. Add the 'aching sadness' and 'fatal failures' and 'eyes shining with tears' of flat white characters, but read on. Hear the slimy campaign adviseThe Race by Richard North Patterson Narrated by Michael Boatman

"Don't you know I'm going to live happily ever after anyway?" After painting, waxing, polishing, wallpapering, and flowering up her old Nantucket house, Nan tells Sara about a man she met and loved. Sarah replies: but wouldn't it be nice ifThe Beach House by Jane Green read by Cassandra Campbell

Daughter of an Italian beauty who somehow wandered into the wrong mountains, Ave Maria is still considered a 'forner', despite spending 35 years in Big Stone Gap, driving the volunteer Rescue Squad truck, and directing the annual townBig Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani read by Adriana Trigiani

Within the first minute and 34 seconds you know you are going to understand this book because Denning quotes James Dyson: "Of the world's ten largest corporations by revenue, 9 make big, heavy things, like cars." This is easy to follow,The Bull Hunter by Dan Denning

Ed McBain's DOLL  (Pouty D, drag the O, tongue heavy on the L.)  is bedtime reading. The warped, lusty, utterly female voice of this slut-goddess kicks you in the groin, cuffs you to the radiator, and feeds you sex and ham sandwiches. You,DOLL by Ed McBain read by