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A bouquet of accidents pop up at the beginning of the story: a cab crash in Manhattan, a car crash in Darien, Connecticut, an overdose in Mitford...For the rest of this story, the notion of accident is under erasure. What after all is an accident? Is the housing crisis anThe Accident by Linwood Barclay read by Peter Berkrot

A wagonful of new Agatha Christie audiobooks ("lesser" works?) shows us an Agatha knee-deep in Freud, perhaps, indeed, an "English Freud". Here she experiments with the entire merde ridden hagiography of psychoanalytic terms: pathologies, neuroses, perversions, deviances, persecutions. Sarah has just finished her M.B. andAgatha Christie, differently

A serious Swede, heir of a prestigious Accounting firm, talks to his tour bus driver who must, like him, return to an unwanted fate, a little farm waiting for him to take it over: "I'm no good at going out looking for sheep that have got stuck on their backA Week in Winter by Maeve Binchy read by Rosalyn Landor

Do you really want to spend a half an hour of your time listening to a blow by blow account of how Diane, an Elm Creek Quilter, who never remembers to charge her cell phone, gets stuck in a snow storm with only 8% of her battery left to make...A Quilter's Holiday by Jennifer Chiaverini read by Christina Moore

Another alcoholic ex-cop running a bar? Yes! This time in Fort Myers, living every cop's retirement dream: living on a houseboat, dating a Cuban woman and solving murders on the side. It's good. From the very first paragraph Jack feels like a detective, sounds like a detective, and makes it clear thatThe Dollar-A-Year Detective by William Wells

As the eighties crash down around him in images of newly divorced women and unusably long nails, Macon emerges as a peculiar species of American male bent on reorganizing the world. Author of guidebooks for businessmen who hate to travel, Macon Leary writes about the latest KFC openingThe Accidental Tourist Anne Tyler::George Guidall

There is something beautiful and more than beautiful about these women who enjoy their kitchens, who love all the rooms of domesticity. Jane gives us wives, book club ladies and hostesses, in Manhattan or Westchester, well groomed and well mannered and well off, obedient to husbands or mothers in lawPromises To Keep by Jane Green read by Cassandra Campbell

From the very first paragraph, when she almost breaks her tooth on something hard that her mouth found in her peanut butter cupcake, Emily is interesting. Yes, she says yes to an engagement ring. But this is not another goofy romance in which the female not only saves the universeThe Coroner by Jennifer Graeser Dornbush read by Sophie Amoss

Who is this the multi tempered red-headed irish blooded vixen who drives mild-mannered priests and gentle men toward madness and reproduction... appearing over and again in Greeley's work-- ( Sister? Aunt? Teacher? Mother?) GET the nabridged narration by JONATHAN MAROSZ(!) and see how the girl on roof saves the Pope with aWhite Smoke by Andrew Greeley read by Jonathan Marosz

One reads, and reads, and reads... and one forgets how good it feels to consider the world through the jolly eyes of a clever and forgiving judge. P.D. James, for example. Consider the small Anglican college of St Alselm's, faithful not only to God and Church but to the immemorialDeath in Holy Orders by P.D. James Narrated by Charles Keating

1948 is a strange time to be a Jew. For Lonzman, the hero of this tale, it is the year the Jews in Israel are driven into the sea, and get a small beachside strip of Alaska as compensation. It is the year Lonzman's father arrives in downtown Sitka whereThe Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon performed by Peter Riegert

There is always a boy and a dog (....and a psychopath) After all, you're inside the mind of Dean Koontz , and its the loneliest night in the world, and you've just seen the saddest thing on earth, and there are monsters in the backyard, and youONE DOOR AWAY FROM HEAVEN by DEAN KOONTZ read by ANNE TWOMEY

Charlotte, a romance writer who has recently broken her engagement to an unfaithful beau, moves to a small town and makes friends with her neighbors and the local pastor. Very pleasantly narrated by Crystal Sershen. Story well written but a little slow. Crispens Point by JoHannah Reardon narrated by Crystal Sershen

Dick Francis died in his home on the Cayman Islands. He was 89. A successful steeplechase jockey, Francis turned to writing after he retired from racing in 1957. He penned 42 novels, many of which featured racing as a theme. His books were translated into more than 20 languages, and inDick Francis 1921-2010

A gentle voice with exacting intelligence mourns England, its living unemployed and its generation of tall, dead men: Where are the monstrous men with chests like barrels and moustaches like the wings of eagles who strode across my childhood's gaze twenty or thirty years ago? Buried, I suppose, in the FlandersThe Road to Wigan Pier by George Orwell read by Richard Green

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Savages by Don Winslow read by Michael Kramer