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The crisp precise language of the story irons out an implicit California-Palo Alto class structure, in addition to a real plot! A hairy doctor found dead in a $400 hotel room… a husband.

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Well crafted character flaws in this 21st century noir detective story with a cheating wife and an ex-circus dick. Reading: Bad Things Happen by Harry Dolan read by Paul Hecht

It is so civilized to recognize that one is old, so English. Mary Sharp is a spritely, frank, practical English lady, retired, and almost 60. She has lively, vivid opinions and wobbly upper arms and lives in a not very nice part of West London with a sweet young lodger.No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club by Virginia Ironside Read by Sian Phillips

Like listening to a brand new Stones album (if you're old enough to know what an album is...) If a video of you coveting your neighbor's wife captured the downing of TWA Flight 800 in 1996 would you rally to the Flag and turn it in? Night Fall is full ofNIGHT FALL by Nelson Demille Narrated by Scott Brick

A well upholstered, crisply intelligent middle aged police inspector newly widowed from her faithless, politically agile husband, is called back to work after many years. She colors her hair, tries to eat less, and reconnoitres her domestic life across and through the investigation of a murder, the enmity of theA Small Indiscretion by Denise Rudberg translated by Laura Wideberg read by Joyce Bean

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

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!

For years the facile, monarch-note like introductory blurbs of audiobooks have been aimed at delayed airline passengers looking forward to a two or three hour seat in a jet on hot tarmac. As nonlocalizably uninformative as the pilot, but more or less referential. The introduction to Robin Cook's CriticalCritical by Robin Cook read by George Guidall

The House of UnAmerican Activities Committee (on which sits Dick Nixon) is looking for Communists, and finds a few poor schmucks in Hollywood. Some Jews are inquisitioned, black-listed, and disappeared from the credits. Their words are found in screenplays by unknowns from Wyoming and Maine. Other JewsBeverly Hills Dead by Stuart Woods read by Tony Roberts

"Poker was second only to pool in Michael Dempsey's skills his children should have." How can you not lose your shirt to the writer of such a genealogy? This is Crusie as good as she was inTemptation read by the unrememberable, unpronouncable name who does Marilyn Monroe better than MM, and twirlsJennifer Crusie read by Aasne Vigesaa: Faking It

Journalists must either eat or be eaten by more and more information. How to eat? Well, there's Excel. And if Excel can't make sense of "the new types of data" that Wikileaks was producing, then maybe a "data visualization expert" could make a pretty picture out of bomb explosion statistics.WikiLeaks by David Leigh, Luke Harding, Ed Pilkington, Robert Booth, Charles Arthur, narrated by Paul Michael Garcia

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 Cape October during the rainy season, but May is not the rainy season, you can expect a thunder storm along about 3 or 4 every afternoon... The rain when it comes mercilessly assaults the sidewalk and the streets. . . But the heat and the humidity follow asAlice in Jeopardy by Ed McBain read by Bernadette Dunne

Lots of interesting characters on Blossom Street: a widow with an adopted daughter, a tough ex-punk happily married and unhappily smoking, a good son and chocolate factory owner with a growing heart problem, a charmed and charming owner of a knitting store, a gorgeous single girl getting over an ex-fianceeSummer on Blossom Street by Debbie Macomber read by Miss Delilah

Timothy Van Bender's beautiful, disappointed wife signed a pre-nuptial agreement which protected Timothy's inherited wealth from the contingency of her (slightly embarrassing) lower class. When she commits suicide, Timothy is left with a failing hedge fund, a not-yet redecorated house in Silicon Valley, his membership at the Menlo Circus Club,Switchback by Mathew Klein read by Chris Patton

In his thuggy Italian voice, Ferrone rasps the staggeringly funny stretched-out Goombah logic of an ex con from Mulberry Street as he helps an ex-cop burgle a ritzy old-world Hotel and save Democracy. The two Italians stumble into the sub counter plot of a fanatic Cuban terrorist-doctor with a bad liver,Re-hearing: Vincent Patrick read by Richard Ferrone: Smokescreen

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