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.

19 Years of Reviews

Do you really want to hear a book about a woman who lies to her husband as a part of her job? About a wife who makes herself lovable by pretending not to know where Luxembourg is, and then insisting that it doesn't exist, and then bitching about its size?The ExPats by Chris Pavone read by Mozhan Marno

Nick, Miami news reporter, is a decent, semi-sad, semi-serious, guy. One day he is sent out to cover a typical Miami highway accident. Dead on the scene are his wife and one of his twin daughters. One year later Nick is a decent semi sad semi serious guy with one daughterEye of Revengeby Jonathon King

At what point can one say that a man is a cheat? When he buys a house from you, when he tells you how to avoid paying income tax, when you help him misrepresent himself, when he helps you find a woman you can marry, when he callsGood Faith by Jane Smiley read by Richard Poe

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 you want, come back anytime.The Enemy Within by Larry Bond read by Michael Russotto

The voice is everything. Instead of the typical pomposity of a haughty OBE accent, spouting that mixture of bad faith, betrayal, and malice so characteristic of the displaced British upper class, we have a whisper, a tempered, middle brow tone telling a tale about a slightly fat slightly alcoholic NottinghamROUGH TREATMENT by JOHN HARVEY::JOHN WILKINSON

An acoustical hog. There is no one as good as Griffin on the hearts and minds of the Military, and no one as bad as the histrionic, oversyncopated, overamplifed, over-the-top Dick Hill reading him. A pity. Where is the outstanding Michael Russotto? By Order of the President by W.E.B. Griffin misread by Dick Hill

An all but dead movie director, inspired by a creative CIA operative, flies to Uzbekistan to shoot a reality show about a mafioso war lord in the post soviet territories with problems. "Wife is bitch on wheel. Son wants to join fuckink Taliban. Daughter like pussy." A perfect formula forThe Manhattan Beach Project by Peter Lefcourt read by Tom Weiner

The Ninilta Native Association is run by Aunties - fierce old women who knit and protect native women and define the small life of the large territory called The Park. One of the Aunties belongs to Kate Shugak and functions, among other things, as a creditor. We give you time, Katya.A Deeper Sleep by Dana Stabenow read by Bernadette Dunne

Gruellingly slow story about a reporter who is shot in her car while picking up a prescription that her husband forgot to pick up for her. She goes to her husband's historic cottage in Virginia where she bumps into helpful neighbors, young and old, who tell her stories about herEmilie Richards, Lover's Knot read by Isabel Keating

A family is a system. For Annabelle, aka Tanya, aka Sienna aka Sophia, it is a rigorously cheerful, rigorously protective, rigorously mobile system. It packs up and moves every 18 months. Until Kansas City, when the system's mother drinks herself to death, and the rules are preserved byHide by Lisa Gardner read by Maggie-Meg Reed

Wonderful, well developed characters modeled on silly, overchewed, Oprah-certified victim-types. The victim of an alcoholic, depressive, schadenfreude-mother, the victim of a childhood kidnapping by a pedophile, the victim of an unforgiving corrections system, the victim of overwhelming emotions, overwhelming fears, overwhelming doubts, of poor parents, poor teachers, poor morals, poorThe Neighbor by Lisa Gardner

The lines are drawn quickly - boom boom boom. Here is Israel, here is Russia, here is history. Here is crime, here is terror. Here stands Gabriel Allon: here, on the side of art. And Ivan stands here on the side of death. Like a Tarot layout. There is a bird's Moscow Rules by Daniel Silva

The first murder victim is a horror list of character flaws with L.A. citizenship: 1. She could not be bothered to make the car payments on the first of each month, even though her parents took care of the down payment. 2. She lives in a dump in ShermanCompulsion by Jonathan Kellerman read by Rubenstein

"John has left me his town. Although now that his town didn't have the children in it.." The demented but funny* ex-wife of a husband who should have come with instructions on how to load the dishwasher invites our sympathy because: 1. the ex-person has custody of the children 2. she isCleaning Nabokov's House by Leslie Daniels read by Bernadette Dunne

Clever social critique wrapped up in smart, pretty fiction, with a side of acerbic wit. Beautifully thought out by a very ordered English-speaking mind.Capital by John Lanchester read by Colin Mace