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

Delightful, improbable, curious thriller peppered by just the right amount of domesticity. Imagine a woman baffled by the sudden death her husband. Slowly, spontaneously, she discovers one thing after another that her husband had done or planted that make no sense. Her son is sure that his father is in aSiri Mitchell, State of Lies

In some possible Doris Day movie about a perky blonde secretary and a rich executive bachelor there is a perpetual secretarial pool typing out Nora Roberts novels in time to Sinatra or Liszt. There is no Nora Roberts. There is a pool of Nora Roberts, a herd of Nora Roberts,The Nora Roberts Pool

It is the story of a happy Captain of a sinking ship. It is the story of Chernobyl, afterwards. It is the story of provisional investigators, provisional policemen, provisional scientists who are provisionally accepted as the mad inhabitants of a zone officially uninhabited, in which no crime officially occurs. TheWolves Eat Dogs by Martin Cruz Smith

Ex-police chief and widow returns to her home town to help her daughter recover from a divorce and gets messily involved in a murder. Mildly uninteresting.The Fine Art of Murder by Emily Barnes read by Carrington MacDuffie

Aristotle says that there are three sexes: men, women, and short women. This book is about that third sex: short, married, murderous women with happy helpful husbands and perky breasts. The kind who play tennis in the morning and spend the afternoon decorating the guest bathroom. The kind who think that wife #3 meansLong Time No See by Susan Isaacs read by Cristine Mcmurdo-Wallis

Women are divisive. Among themselves and between their generations. Go to any academic women's conference and see for yourself. Or listen to Blair Brown's crisp, young, feminine voice reading The Senator's Wife. And listen for this divisiveness. In the pasteurized neighborly conversations of Miller's two women: the 37 year oldThe Senator's Wife by Sue Miller read by Blair Brown

The perfect voice for a down and out in London and Iraq crime novel, with an entry quote by Orwell. Always a good sign, Orwell. Imagine a classic sting by a pretty girl and her boyfriend: girl alone at bar gets hit by her bruiser boyfriend. Retired police detective comesThe Wreckage by Michael Robotham read by Sean Barrett

A daughter who inherits her father's glass studio, as well as his friends, his neighbors and his dog, stays on in St. Petersburg, Florida. She has trouble trying to be like her father. The second murder mystery consists of some technical details about glassmaking, some comforting facts about StShards of Murder by Cheryl Hollon

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

If you walk into a bar and hear a bunch of guys wondering about why angels have to sit on clouds "as if they don't got chairs in heaven," you're probably in a Dortmunder novel. If the guys are hunched over their drinks with that 1000-yard stare that suggests thatMetaphors as Politics: Donald Westlake: Watch Your Back!

"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

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

Imagine a little fishing village with a general store somewhere in Texas where it rains. There is lots of kindness, and lots of very quirky individuals who don't mesh, but aggregate. Mostly around a lake. Old maids, young maids, poor beaten women, big burly men, volunteer firefighters, sheriffs, and brutes.Twisted Creek (& the Harmony series) by Jodi Thomas read by Scott Sowers & Julia Gibson

Frank Muller reading William Caunitz Just a paragraph. Listen to Frank Muller saying: "All in a day. It's almost like there's a puppet master pulling all our chains." Somehow, he lets the sense roll in and then rides it with his voice so that the words are gathered up in a hugeFrank Muller reading Chains of Command by William Caunitz

Maeve Binchy is the grand-mistress of the domestic imaginary: that hearty, busy, pretty space where women make themselves primal. It is late Capitalism and the lumpen proletariat of Dublin are caterers, not cooks. Katy is prole and caterer and the figure of a Dublin that caters to others, toScarlet Feather by Maeve Binchy read by Barbara Caruso