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

It is wrong to suppose that language is about communication. James Hall does not communicate. He sniffs a piece of the invisible, picks it up with his mouth and lays it on our doorstep. What we call language is sometimesFrank Muller reads James Hall:: Red Sky at Night

Elizabeth Moon The Speed of Dark read by Grover Gardner Pattern recognition is the theme of this second millenium. Knowledge is pattern recognition. Love is pattern recognition. Beauty is pattern recognition. Those who can recognize patterns get to recognize more patterns.Elizabeth Moon The Speed of Dark read by Grover Gardner

Even little old Canadian villages have murders, and artists. Jane Neal lived and painted in a big house and kept both her canvases and her home private. Except for the kitchen. To it she invited her circleStill Life by Louise Penny read by Ralph Cosham

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

As the eighties crash down around him in images of newly divorced women and unusably long nails, Macon emerges as a peculiar species of American male bent on reorganizing the world. Author of guidebooks for businessmen who hateThe Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler::George Guidall

Mod cop saves child in a killer fire, and slowly, doggedly, sniffs out the arsonist ..... Posted By: admin ()  Date: 11/10/2004 4:02 pm 3rd Degree by James Patterson and Andrew Gross read by Carolyn McCormick

It is said that this book does not reconstruct the Diana accident. It doesn't. It reconstructs what might not have been an accident if a sensitive, guilt ridden orphan named Samuel Carver ("Call me Carver") who threatens to break pinkiesThe Accident Man by Tom Cain read by John Lee

A story of an FBI Special Agent, California mother and widow tracking a cultish killer. In between the pages of the story is a manual on how to read lies on faces, on bodies, on lips, in friends, suspects andThe Sleeping Doll by Jeffery Deaver performed by Anne Twomey

Gwenda gets off the boat at Plymouth, hires a car, looks for village to live in. And finds one: a perfectly charming cottage with aga, a kitchen garden and flowered wallpaper. Gwenda moves in with her rosewood, herSleeping Murder by Agatha Christie read by Rosemary Leach

Amusing this particular intersection of history where the living instruments of the law (cops, detectives, Special Forces, Army MPs) meet the live ones (text messaging, Live search, cell phones, Google...). What results is something Lacan called the 'missed encounter'Old Cops Meet New Technologies: Harry Bosch & Jack Reacher, 2007

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

This was supposed to be about four retired couples, cops and wives, living in Florida and solving crimes (not cases). But Spillane turned it into a study of memory. Imagine a blinded amnesiacal lover secreted away inside a community ofDead Street by Mickey Spillane read by Richard Ferrone

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

What begins as a story about a girly James Dean with two wicked sisters and a  drunk mother becomes a story about a CPW apartment building and its history, its doorman, its neighbors. Tina Finn is outrageous and outraged, at everyoneTwelve Rooms With A View by Theresa Rebeck read by Marguerite Gavin