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Despite the silly title that announces the 'coziness' of this mystery and tags it as irreal, uncruel and bloodless, there is some 'spur' to this tale. Not enough to kick into a plot, but some. First, there are characters: a dead cryptographer father, a glassblower-daughter, a local kid with Aspergers, aPane and Suffering by Cheryl Hollon read by C.S.E. Cooney

Ever since Tracy Ullmann quipped that being in your early 50s was a wonderful time for most actresses, I've been watching for a script. Here it is. The next Meryl Streep movie: what better role for an over 50 actress than that of a politician's wife? That's right, one ofFly Away Home by Jennifer Weiner read by Judith Light

It is not inconceivable that the prime minister should don a cheap blonde wig, heels and a little a after his first name , in order to ride on broken trains, wait on soda-machine queues, lie untreated in a public emergency rooms, drink and flirt in roadside pubs, and re-connectNumber 10 by Sue Townsend read by Barbara Rosenblat

Hitachi's beautifully directed High Definition video series called True Stories features a segment on "Coal's Comeback". A bunch of old em·phy·se·mic grandpas are fishing, muttering into the wind, when the voice of Bruce No of Hitachi America announces that Supercritical Technology is the new generation of Coal, the cleanSister Mine by Tawni O'Dell read by Renee Raudman

A nympho wine reviewer with a boyfriend who doesn't like to fuck on boats looks for a killer in San Francisco. But there are no localized mappings, detailing the city or its' neighborhoods, except for traffic on the Golden Gate Bridge. Likewise, don't expect any happy wine tasting menuDeath in a Wine-Dark Sea by Lisa King

A collection of lost boys with dyslexia, poor little rich girls, orphans with personality disorders, meet in Atlanta, on different sides of the law.Fractured by Karen Slaughter read by Phil Gigante

Although less terrible than usual, Brick can't do funny. And this book can be funny. The ram rod straight CIA trainer; the queer, ruthless, demented Director of Operations; the stubborn, nerdish, accidentally lucky pseudo-operative determined to avenge his murdered girlfriend..... Then of course he bumps into a woman who The Amateur: A Novel of Revenge by Robert Littell read by Scott Brick

Despite all the buzzy, instagram-thick keywords about making a living as a media blogger, cook and home renovator, the main character's Mrs Marple is just a bit too stupid, a bit too simplistic to care about or believe in. The Hidden Corpse by Debra Sennefelder

Robin Cook Marker read by George Guidall Most bestselling writers, like Hollywood waiters, are really something else. Shrinks, lawyers, opthamologists. Divorced ex-cops. Sometimes a reporter. A confused priest or two. We excuse such slippery behavior when it gives us access to technical knowledge: why kill? how do cops catch criminals? whatRobin Cook Marker read by George Guidall

"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

Think about a perfect sandwich. A happy assemblage of fresh food: bacon, lettuce, tomato. Good and familiar characters, pretty or restful setting, easy, recognizable relationships. Funny dialogue. Simple white or brown bread. A little bit of mayo. There's a singular and single female divorce lawyer with a very hungry sexBetween Sisters by Kristin Hannah read by Laural Merlington

For those with a curiosity about the kind of woman who is employed by Christie's and the New York auction scene: the girls, the clothes, their mothers, their mothers' wardrobe, the accents, the topknots, the hyper-academic cat-calls, the jealousies, the gallerinas: The gallery girls of New York are like starving attack dogs in really nice clothes. AllThe Price of Inheritance by Karin Tanabe read by Emily Durante

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

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

It could be any neighborhood in the 1970s or 1980s or any conventional middle class development with young childless couples on the verge of divorce or adultery. The neighborhood librarian becomes a felonious sleepwalker before becoming the librarian at a Women's Correctional Institute, teaching other felons to read, doing sitNeighborhood Watch by Cammie McGovern read by Coleen Marlo

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Savages by Don Winslow read by Michael Kramer