Fractured by Karen Slaughter read by Phil Gigante

A collection of lost boys with dyslexia, poor little rich girls, orphans with personality disorders, meet in Atlanta, on different sides of the law.

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Everything good comes together in this slow moving L.A. smoothie with the wizened, reflective, and much humbled Harry Bosch. Gone is the bull in the china shop attitude, the stubborn in your face overconfidence. In its place is the humility that comes from being too old or at least olderThe Overlook by Michael Connelly read by Len Cariou

Well crafted words read by a dulled, depressed and depressing voice. Read it instead.Paint it Black by Janet Fitch read by Jennifer Jason Leigh

Incongruous, unlovable, post-Vietnam: a weatherman and a reporter make the Minnesota TV newsroom hummm. Dixie Quinn locks into the weather and doesn't let go. Rick Beanblossom, burn-victim, works behind the scenes, behind his mask. Their curious, uneven characterizations are ambushed midway by a grim, hopeless plot. Quotes: "Y'all take care now" (The weatherman's lastThe Weatherman by Stephen Thayer read by George Guidall

There is something annoying, something unsettling, something demoralizing about a story in which all the women are either murder victims, embittered but useless mothers, faithful, ineffectual wives, or sexually charged students with dancers' bodies. Annoying, too, is witnessing an entire small town turn against an innocent man and his brainyThe Bone House by Brian Freeman read by Joe Barrett

A happy surgeon falls over face down into an open gall bladder and is exiled from his caste of four: the AMA, the Hospital, the HMO, the elite medical partnership operating out of Boston. The sad misadventures of a circus of medical accountants, gatekeepers, technocrats, and insurance agents sets theThe Society by Michael Palmer read by J. Charles

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 the African, for example, who remembers people only by diseases, andThe Mistress of the Art of the Dead by Ariana Franklin read by Roslyn Landor

A sweet perfectly staged gem of a romance, with no excessive sexual details and no drawn out “chapter 4” breakup before coming back together. An uncle’s unusual bequest puts a hold on Molly’s hotel management career: she is compelled to help out an old friend by agreeing to marry andPamela Kelley Six Months in Montana

Fri Jul 30, 2004 The Last Juror. Written by John Grisham 2004/04/13 @ 00:23:44 [ no comment - Edit - Delete ] The Last Juror by John Grisham by audio qua audio (audio qua audio), in Now hearing Miss Callie is Clinton's first black juror, the mother of 7 PhDs, a huge, prodigiousArchives: July 2004

Yes, we know that it is very important for there to be a gun on the table and a timer, clicking down, on the first page of the story. Someone is murdered, and by the end of the story someone else is found culpable. Someone is training, and by theFirewatch by Nelson DeMille read by Scott Brick

Welcome to Temptation by J. Crusie read by Aasne Vigesaa(!) Sophie and Amy Dempsy are listening to Dusty Springfield on the car radio, Amy filming the "Welcome to Tempatation" road sign from behind her pink rhinestone sunglasses and Sophie not paying attention. When they crash, how does Sophie get them outWelcome to Temptation by J. Crusie read by Aasne Vigesaa(!)

Four narrators read back to back the recollections of five 'Angry Housewives' in Minnesota. Each voice adds to the prism of personalities which reflects how different five women sound from one another, even when they are reading the same books. Unlike the women in Mary McCarthy's The Group, which was perhapsAngry Housewives Eating Bon Bons by Lorna Landvik Performed by Ruth Ann Phimister, Christine Mcmurdo Wallis, Christina Moore, Kate Forbes and James Jenner

Imagine a Cobbled Court Quilt Shop. A Blue Bean Bakery. A For the Love of Lavender Herbal Boutique. Farms, handiwork, handicraft, prudent, helpful, hardware-toting neighbors, dainty small town gossip, happy volunteers, lavender soap: the fantasmatic drift of post-Madoff sub-urban female regret. What does a pretty pacified community look like whenThreading the Needle by Marie Bostwick read by Hilary Huber, Bernadette Dunne

It is not unusual to hear unflattering descriptions of Americans in the press, but when did Americans get so ugly in fiction? Consider a white haired couple who seem to be wearing each other's clothes in Donna Leon's Blood from a Stone: The woman wore a flannelBlood from a Stone by Donna Leon::David Colacci

It is not obvious that there are soldiers missing in action from the war in Iraq. It is said that the Arabs do not take prisoners, do not leave Americans alive. So the horror of a category of men archived by the subjunctive, neither real nor unreal, neither past norThe Confirmation :: Thomas Powers read by George Guidall

What happens to a hard cop in a hard city in an era below good and evil.Hollywood Station by Joseph Wambaugh