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Featured Audio Giveaway – Jan 2014 – Sleepyhead

January 2nd, 2014 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

Sleepyhead A Tom Thorne Novel by Mark Billingham Read by Simon Prebble Mark Billingham’s Sleepyhead, an international bestseller, is a mesmerizing, psychological thriller and it introduces a stunning new talent in detective fiction. Read why this is a HighBridge Staff Pick. See what the reviewers have to say: “Who would have thought a stand-up […]

Fooled Me Twice: Mark Billingham’s SCAREDY CAT

December 30th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Oh, Mr. Billingham, you fooled me again. You seem so forthcoming in Scaredy Cat, your follow-up to the Tom Thorne series opener Sleepyhead. And narrator Simon Prebble has such a trustworthy voice, doesn’t he? Yet I don’t even get through the prologue before I see you’re up to your tricks again—and Mr. Prebble is clearly in […]

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Billingham’s Sleepyhead: A First-in-Series That Will Keep You Awake

December 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Having listened to Mark Billingham’s Sleepyhead, read by Simon Prebble, I believe I may have discovered the perfect way to determine whether you’ve come across a truly outstanding mystery: Try to explain what you like about it to someone. If you realize you can’t without the explanation being a spoiler of some kind, you’ve got […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – Nov 2013 – Ties That Bind

November 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

Celebrating 10 years of StoryCorps Ties That Bind: Stories of Love and Gratitude from the First Ten Years of StoryCorps hosted by Dave Isay; as told by StoryCorps participants They’ve made you laugh, cry, ponder, and muse: Stories from all walks of life about all manner of people and places. And it’s StoryCorps that’s made […]

Lee Smith’s Guests on Earth:
An accompaniment both obbligato and
ad libitum

October 28th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

On first blush, Guests on Earth by Lee Smith (The Last Girls) bears resemblance to The Secret Life of Bees: A young girl, believing herself responsible for her mother’s death, leaves her home and finds herself among a group of women that soon become her second family. Even Emily Woo Zeller’s voice, while unaccented, has […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – Oct 2013 – Star Wars Topps Collector’s Editions

October 3rd, 2013 · 2 Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

Star Wars: A New Hope Original Radio Drama – Topps Collectors Editions, “Light Side” and “Dark Side” by George Lucas; performed by Mark Hamill, Anthony Daniels, and an ensemble cast Two chances to win this week! Basically, if you have been breathing anytime between 1979 and today, you are familiar with the first Star Wars […]

Nobody’s Perfect, But Westlake and Woodman Are Pretty Close

September 24th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

Nobody’s Perfect by the late Donald Westlake; read by Jeff Woodman A Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio Digital Classics The saying goes “Dying is easy; comedy is hard.” Plenty of mysteries, where the body count climbs without much attention to plot or character, bear that out: all gore, no substance. And after a workday that can seem […]

Featured Audio Giveaway – Sept 2013 – The Road from Gap Creek (Morgan)

September 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Featured Audio Giveaways

The Road from Gap Creek by Robert Morgan; read by Emma Galvin You’ve waited nearly 15 years to return to Gap Creek. Don’t wait any longer!Win The Road from Gap Creek and catch up with your friends. Robert Morgan takes us back into the lives of Julie and Hank as well as […]

Narrators channel their inner Hammett for short story collection

August 28th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

Narrators Donna Postel, Ray Chase, Stephen Bowlby, and Brian Holsopple channel their inner Dashiell Hammett while recording the short story collection The Hunter and Other Stories (pub date 11/5), which includes never before and rarely published stories. The collection both affirms Hammett’s reputation as an author of hard-boiled fiction and broadens it beyond that to […]

The Esperanza Fire – Haunting yet Triumphant

August 26th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

It’s interesting sometimes to reflect on how you end up settling on a particular book: The hazy day in Minnesota that the weather people attributed to western wildfires, including a huge one in Yosemite. The recent return of a colleague from a vacation in Montana—and that reminding me of my own visit there, many years […]

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