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A big man, a private eye, ex-military, school of Afghanistan, minus one leg and one girlfriend, hires a relentlessly normal secretary for a week. She stays on. He gets a case. She helps.

19 Years of Reviews

What starts up as an Insider's Guide to storage in L.A. develops into a diary by Holden Caulfield's bitch-sister, grown up into another alienated and out of joint L.A. wife. Judith was a thoroughly unpleasant daughter with a borderline personality disorder of a father who grew tomatoes in NebraskaTo Be Sung Underwater by Tom McNeal narrated by Susan Boyce

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

Within the first minute and 34 seconds you know you are going to understand this book because Denning quotes James Dyson: "Of the world's ten largest corporations by revenue, 9 make big, heavy things, like cars." This is easy to follow, sensible stuff - and just the kind of obviousness thatThe Bull Hunter by Dan Denning

A book for a long inside day waiting for a hurricane or a war.... about a man wired by a dream not necessarily of being a cop but of being the good guy in the uniform, a hacker-ette, and a dog..... and about dainty compassionate dinner hour executions by Roy, your average, everyday,Rivers of the Heart by Dean Koontz read by

Charlie has been a guest and a prisoner of the dictator of Batanga for 12 years when he has an affair with the dictator's favorite wife. After the wife is tortured, Charlie extradites himself to America, and stands trial for an old murder. The crime is investigated, reconstructedPhillip Margolin, Fugitive, read by Jonathan Davis

It could be any small college town and any next door neighbor. But the town is Promise Falls and the neighbors next door are The Langleys. The story begins when they are murdered. Bert the policeman investigates the neighborhood, starting with Jim Cutter's house. Jim has beenToo Close To Home by Linwood Barclay read by Christopher Lane

If you're Jewish and you have a brother and he's still married, this is NOT how he will sound after he divorces his goyishe wife who you've never liked anyway. Because the person reading this acid-funny tale doesn't have the nasal force or the resentful irregularity or that specific JewishThis is where I leave you by Jonathan Tropper performed by Ramon de Ocampo

For those who do not like the Judge Knott series, Maron has penned this sweet perfectly turned out book about an heiress, an illustrator, granddaughter of a legendary children’s book publisher. Meek, sensitive, submissive as both wife and publishing executive, Amy Steadman finds herself alone, driving to theLast Days of Summer by Margaret Maron read by Kate Forbes

Holly is a youngish, prettyish, slightly loopy, Dublinite whose happy husband tells her what to do. Everybody jokes that if Gerry ever died, he would have to leave her a list ... and when he dies, he does. Leave a list. Sort of. Holly is given 10 envelopes, with instructions,P.S. I Love You by Cecilia Ahern Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

Whatever else Ruth Rendell does or does not do, she demonstrates what might, could, would or should be said while helping the police in their inquiry. The mystery lies not so much in who did it but in who lies about doing it: who said that he didn'tBabes in the Woods by Ruth Rendell narrated by Nigel Anthony

Millie is a happy widow who is a member of the Red Hat Club. She has just dyed her hair cinnamon. She wants to travel and step down from her job as 'domestic goddess', but she has two sons who are slobs. One has moved into her basement apartmentThe Red Hat Society's Domestic Goddess by Regina Hale Sutherland read by Cynthia Darlow

A catholic tailor used his life savings to go to the Vatican. When he returned his parish gathered to find out what he had seen. "What kind of a fellow is the Pope?" they asked him. "44 Medium," he said. This is the kind of obsession Buffet is lookingWarren Buffet's Management Secrets by Mary Buffett & David Clark. Performed by Mary Buffett.

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

What starts off as a sweetly original, Jobs-like desire-mined story about a woman's relationship with the net: before and after marriage, turns into a stupid, GOOFY-Lucy-type plot about a wife and mother who tries to hide her need to be free from her straight laced and slightly idiotic husband. TooHacker Mom by Austin Rachlis

More than a little over the top, Clara Hutt is dropping her 2 boys off this morning wearing her pajama bottoms (again) and wondering (again) why all the other mothers can arrive at school with perfectly starched blouses and expertly applied makiage. Not now, Darling, I'm Paaaarking," andIndia Knight's My Life on a Plate read by Jill Tanner

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Cuckoo’s Calling by Robert Galbraith