Paint it Black by Janet Fitch read by Jennifer Jason Leigh

Well crafted words read by a dulled, depressed and depressing voice. Read it instead.

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Clean, streamlined writing by STEPHEN COONTS; as always, wonderful technical-mechanical details of navy pilots planes and carriers; wry, politically prickly story about NAVY officer-dom, post-war bureaucracy, and the flow of military power-money.The Minotaur by Stephen Coonts read by Michael Prichard

As Marcus Aurelius would say, there are good mixtures and bad mixtures. Consider: A man, a dog, a Ford Explorer. An American, a surfboard, a wave. Or: an experiment, a scientist, the DOD. Good or bad? Koontz doesn't say. But incredible the speed with which we move to position ourselves behind the good, or theSeize the Night by Dean Koontz read by Keith Szarabajka

Only if you want to listen to a spoiled wife's marriage problems while her husband, the surgeon, has chemotherapy for his brain cancer. A long array of the usual complaints, followed by forgiveness and a touch of rural religion.Pirate Queen by Patricia Hickman read by Flora Plumb

There should be and will be a measure of a good writer, which is the number of words it takes for the reader to be INSIDE the story. Up, up and away. Peter Robinson: 10. Kristin Hannah/Hannah Kristin: 25. Ernest Hemingway: 4.The Measure

What a wonderful Upper West Side between Broadway and Central Park West in the 70s voice to listen to .... when you're on a boat to Kabul or Talibaq. Close your eyes and you can see the doormen, the yellow taxis, the short, balding, murderous psychoanalysts, walking their dogs betweenHope to Die by Lawrence Block

The book offers us not one but a series of possible enemies, possible stories, possible plugs for the black hole in intelligence that lies beyond September 11, 2001. Put on ten pounds, dirty sneakers, and a baseball cap, bomb the 14th street bridge, the Dallas-Ft Worth Airport, anyTHE ENEMY WITHIN by LARRY BOND and PATRICK read by MICHAEL RUSSOTTO

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"Your cigar fell down. You told me how good it was and how all the women liked your big cigar. We hardly started smoking and your cigar fell down." It is Havana radio. The whores are called hinateras, jockeys, to describe the way a girl might ride a pig.Havana Bay by Martin Cruz Smith read by Frank Muller

In a small town in bourgeois Massachusetts, the wife of an NSA agent is killed by a car bomb as she starts up her husband's car. It seems obvious that the bomb was directed at the husband, but Jennifer, the twin of the dead wife, is not so sure. SheDeadly Codes by JP O'Donnell

Nan localizes Nantucket. Charmed, beautiful, slightly eccentric, she is at that age where she can get away with mostly anything: trespassing or swimming naked or wearing scarlet lipstick everywhere. Nan lives in a huge old house where she has decided to run a bed and breakfast for summer guests. ItJane Green, The Beach House read by Cassandra Campbell

The Louboutin-loving print reporter makes us want to read her. She writes well because she knows how to talk well to......everyone in Richmond, Virginia. And seems to fit in everywhere, despite the heels. Lyndee Walker tells us that "she has always wanted to be Lois Lane..." and gives us aFront Page Fatality by Lyndee Walker