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Disgraced, crazed, outlawed for his goodie goodieness, ex-prosecutor for the Justice Department is given one last project: investigate the disappearance of Martin Green, an aide on the intelligence committee. J is coupled with a Southern belle-neophyte FBI agent, and instructed to find nothing.

19 Years of Reviews

We get information in clumps, tangles, bunches. There are facts, mixed up with opinions, references, foreign words, sounds and descriptions referring to where we are talking, what is going on where we are talking, the distraction-ridden machinery of a technologically frenzied environment, analogies dragged in from confused personal archives,Fiddlers by Ed McBain read by Charles Stransky

Autumn in the Vineyard by Marina Adair There's always a girl. She's either poor, or she's lost all her money; she's either alone, or she's been disowned; she's either socially incompetent, or she's incited by her own humiliation. This time, it's Frankie Baudouin and she wants to grow grapesAutumn in the Vineyard by Marina Adair narrated by Renee Raudman

Good idea, poorly executed.Stone Cold by David Baldacci. Read by Ron McLarty

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

How is it possible to account for irrationality in a scientific way? What kind of a science, what kind of a scientist studies the the irrational side of human behavior? How, moreover, can irrational decisions be measured, explained and controlled? Arielly describes experiments which do just this. The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Arielly

It takes you by the throat and starts squeezing from line 1. The Irish voice muscles out a story about post-bank crash Ireland: an out of work family living in an Unfinished family development when the money and the economy run out. And why the economic woes of the Irish alwaysBroken Harbor by Tana French read by Stephen Hogan

Alone. Another Abridged Morality Play by Lisa Gardner Sometimes one wonders whether books get written by stringing together the top keywords in Google. Sex-cops-beautiful wife-abused child-murder-guns-rich family-domestic violence-sharpshooter-alcoholic father-politics-doctors-baseball. (Never forget baseball.) Calculate the page rank, and you get: Good cop gets bad girl. Bad girl has good excuse. Good copAlone. Another Abridged Morality Play by Lisa Gardner

"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

A distressing picture of the unhappy situation of the losing class within a classless society. Grace is a 37 year old female loser within this losing class. She lives at the edge of a self-consciously wealthy Palm Beach ghetto of sectional wealth. She has a teenage bitch-daughter with a whine.Mourning Glory by Warren Adler::

5. Be careful with puns, innuendo and double meanings. Search engines, spiders and robots have no sense of humor. Keep this in mind when trying to attract their attention. So states SEO "tip" number 5 of Berkshire Hathaway's BusinessWire.com, a neat new on-line press release engine, as clean as Google'sFor whom?

Does a low pitched male voice lend authenticity to a bodice ripper? A rich Houston real estate agent calls on her ex-lover to help protect their daughter from a violent maniac. Tough Customer by Sandra Brown read by Victor Slezak

At what point are you willing to pay for an audiobook? When you encounter a quote by Kipling that you have never heard before, and you want to memorize it ... When the reader has such a faraway voice, with a thousand ligatures, selective, discretionary accents, which gives a dDavid Ignatius, Bloodmoney, read by Firdous Bamji

Yes, this is about a French woman who is preparing to be married, about the dozens of chores, duties, invitations, financial arrangements, foods, realtors, contracts and miscommunications fringing the prolonged event called a 'wedding'. But it is more about the bureaucracy of French life, the stiff protocols, the delicateLe Mariage by Diane Johnson read by Suzanne Toren

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

If ever there was a language of L.A., a language in which each noun, common or proper, is localized, dated, and cast in a Hollywood movie, it is the language of James M. Cain. And if Cain's L.A. had a voice, she would sound like ChristineJames M. Cain and 'Sexological Advertiser'

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Law of Gravity by Stephen Horn read by Dylan Baker