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HighBridge Narrator Updates

November 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is pleased to announce that Xe Sands will be reading My Accidental Jihad by Krista Bremer, and Tomas Marsh will narrate Kicking the Sky by Anthony De Sa. My Accidental Jihad, available in April, is a profoundly moving and often funny meditation on tolerance, and explores what it means to open our hearts to […]

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 […]

HighBridge in the Studio

October 23rd, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is proud to announce that Donna Postel will be narrating Red 1-2-3 by John Katzenbach, available in January. Red 1-2-3 is a gripping psychological thriller by one of the preeminent authors of the genre. Redhead One is a fifty-one-year-old single doctor. Redhead Two, a thirty-three-year-old middle school teacher. Redhead Three is a seventeen-year-old prep […]

A Different Kind of Noir Classic: The City When It Rains

October 22nd, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

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 […]

Nicola Barber Returns to Narrate Call the Midwife Audiobooks

October 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

Nicola Barber is returning to read the remaining two titles in the Call the Midwife trilogy: Shadows of the Workhouse and Farewell to the East End. Nicola Barber is an Award-Winning British voice actor originally from London. She has more than 12 years of voice acting experience. As one reviewer wrote of her reading of […]

Digital Classic: Penance

October 7th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

First published in the mid-1990s, Penance was David Housewright’s first novel, and won the Edgar Award for the Best First Novel. A Minnesota native and resident, Housewright has gone on to write more than ten novels to date, with about as many short stories under his belt. Penance was released under the Mysterious Press-HighBridge Audio […]

Tara Sands to Narrate ‘The Summer of Letting Go’

September 25th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is proud to announce that Tara Sands will be narrating The Summer of Letting Go, by Gae Polisner. Available March 2014, The Summer of Letting Go is a young adult audiobook that follows a teenage girl, still reeling from her little brother’s drowning death, who finds herself holding back—from summer trips to the ocean, […]

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 […]

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 […]

Headstone

September 13th, 2013 · No Comments · HighBridge at the Movies

With Headstone, the ninth book in the Jack Taylor series, author Ken Bruen offers up some of the hardest-boiled, dark noir, detective/crime fiction I have ever experienced. And while it is the ninth book of what is technically a series, those not familiar with previous books won’t be lost in the least; it’s a great […]

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