I’ve been wanting to listen to the Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio Classics recording of Thomas H. Cook‘s The City When It Rains for a while, ever since meeting Tom at Bouchercon in St. Louis and hearing that this was the favorite of his many books. A recent road trip provided the perfect opportunity for me to […]
A Different Kind of Noir Classic: The City When It Rains
October 22nd, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Tags: audiobook·HighBridge·mysterious press·mysterious press-highbridge audio classic·mystery·R. C. Bray·The City When It Rains·Thomas H. Cook
Calling All Midwives
October 3rd, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News
I’m pleased to announce . . . I’m thrilled to announce . . . I couldn’t be happier to announce . . . Isn’t there any other way to say this? How about: I’m ‘eaven and ‘ell chuffed ter tell what HighBridge has picked up the bloody rights to produce audiobook editions of the remaining […]
Tags: Audiobooks·BBC·Call the Midwife·Cockney·Farewell to the East End·Jennifer Worth·memoir·PBS·Shadows of the Workhouse
Coming Home
September 18th, 2013 · 1 Comment · Uncategorized
What is the true cost of war? How do we measure it? What are we really asking of the young men and women we send into combat? And if we can actually bring ourselves to answer that last question honestly in all its most horrifying specifics, what are the implications for the future lives of […]
Tags: audiobook·Bringing Mulligan HOme·casualties·concussive brain injury·Dale Maharidge·memoir·military·Okinawa·veterans·war·World War II
Something about Her
August 19th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized
Have you ever had to periodically stop listening to an audiobook because it was so intense you just needed a break? Probably not all that uncommon with good thrillers. But with a memoir? That’s what my wife and I had to do on a recent road trip during which we tuned in to Her by […]
Tags: audiobook·autobiography·Christa Parravani·Her·memoir·review·Steve's Picks
New Camilla Läckberg Coming May 2014
July 31st, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News
HighBridge has acquired rights to record The Hidden Child, the fifth in the Erica Falck/Patrik Hedström mystery series by Swedish writer Camilla Läckberg. The audiobook will be published in May 2014 simultaneously with the hardcover from Pegasus. For those not into the Scandanavian mystery/thriller phenomenon or else living on the moon the past few years, […]
Tags: camilla lackberg·ice princess·mystery·preacher·Scandinavian crime fiction·stonecutter·Stranger·Swedish crime fiction·thriller
A Claire DeWitt Bohemian Rhapsody
July 15th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized
With the publication of Claire DeWitt and the Bohemian Highway (Sara Gran; read by Carol Monda) more and more people are catching on to the Claire DeWitt phenomenon, and I couldn’t be more pleased. I knew a quarter of the way into the first book, Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead, that 1) […]
Tags: audiobook·Carol Monda·claire dewitt·review·sara gran·Steve's Picks
HighBridge joins other “Spirits” at 2011 St. Louis BoucherCon
October 4th, 2011 · No Comments · Uncategorized
In mid September, HighBridge for the first time joined other mystery fans in attending BoucherCon, the international nonprofit, all-volunteer organization which holds an annual convention in honor of Anthony Boucher, the distinguished mystery fiction critic, editor and author. This year the convention was in St. Louis with the theme “Spirits of St. Louis.” As a […]
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Heidi Durrow comes to Minneapolis
January 26th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
Heidi Durrow, author of The Girl Who Fell From the Sky (Algonquin HC and PB; HighBridge audiobook editions) spoke at Minneapolis independent bookseller Magers and Quinn last Friday. A good crowd came out to meet this debut-author-turned-New York Times-bestselling-author. The Girl Who Fell From the Sky has been getting much deserved acclaim. It is a […]
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