A Soft Place to Fall by Barbara Bretton read by Wendy Tremont King

Jealous, child-bearing women live and love.

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19 Years of Reviews

Venice is an old small town of old small sins. The Venice, that is, of Commissario Guido Brunetti, who may want no more of life than to read Xenophon and wait for his wife to come home from the Rialto with soft shell crabs. It is a Venice ofFriends in High Places by Donna Leon::Anna Fields

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(!) and see how the girl on roof saves the Pope with aWhite Smoke by Andrew Greeley read by Jonathan Marosz

Very rye, very laid-back, low-brow, funny in a way only a Goombah from NJ reading words with more than one syllable can do funny. Ferrone does dumb Goombah so well you laugh twice at each joke: once at the reading, once at the punchline. Burglar Bernie Roudhenbarr is trying to quit burgling. Now heThe Burglar Who Liked To Quote Kipling by Lawrence Block read by Richard Ferrone

What begins as a semi-magical stay at a semi-magical cottage ends as another story about pregnant women at an English Women's Shelter.The House at the End of Hope Street by Menna Van Praag

Wry, infinitely bored, softhearted ex-cop holes up in the Upper Peninsula, runs his snow plow up and down the block, and hangs out in a Scottish pub, drinking Canadian beer. Then trouble comes knocking at his door.... "You spend your whole life up here sitting in The Hunting Wind by Steve Hamilton read by Nick Sullivan

How is it that Anna Jacobs always swaddles you into a world that feels cozy and safe and hopeful? Here is another story about a working woman who wants to retire but puts it off until she is at the edge of the world and has to fight her way backChanging Lara by Anna Jacobs

And it occurred to him that the most important thing about Rode was that he had no friends. Smiley was reminded of Buchner's fairy tale about the child left alone on the Earth, who finding no one to talk to went to the moon because it smiled atA Murder of Quality by John Le Carre read by Keith Lloyd

Witty, enchanting and enchanted spectacle of Catholic familydom. Utterly charming characters; slightly wooden plots.Younger Than Springtime by Andrew Greeley read by Jonathan Marosz

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, sensible stuff - and just the kind of obviousness thatThe Bull Hunter by Dan Denning

Jake is the kind of guy that tells his girlfriend to stop using some pheromonal perfume by Clinique because it "messes with his head". But apart from perfume, he is singularly unfussed. He is streetwise, he is attentive, and he belongs inside his own body. But he belongs nowherePower Play by Joseph Finder read by Dennis Boutsikaris

There is no question that there is a story here, about an otherwise nice city and an otherwise nice cop who is married to a rather understanding Englishwoman. But it is not a story about the city and the cop and the Englishwoman in the 1960s. It is not enough toToo Many Murders by Colleen McCullough read by Charles Leggett

No you really don't want to hear the bad dialogue of a 12 year old who doesn't care for her brother's new girlfriend. Until the 12 year old is called upon to help the girlfriend solve a murder at an old English house party...Death in a Stately Home by Sara Rosett read by Sarah Mollo-Christensen

Meg, a rude, prickly, well dressed matchmaker goes to a celebrity resort with a famous actor, hiding his homosexuality. The resort promises privacy, secrecy, security. She spars and eventually falls in love with the owner. But instead of privacy and secrecy, the resort harbors someone who takes pictures of the actor and hisSeduced by Sunday by Catherine Bybee read by Tanya Eby

Despite a perfect narrator, with a perfect Italian pronunciation of pithy Italian sayings, the mystery lacks a singularly compelling plot, indeed any plot. Disappointing because the author has a lot to say. .... Murder in Tranquility Park by J.D. Griffo

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: the oversexed politician, the narrow-minded small town sheriff, the power hungryThe Suspect by John Lescroart read by David Collacci