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Hot Stuff: Robert Olen Butler’s THE HOT COUNTRY

December 23rd, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

I confess that I’ve read (or listened to) almost nothing in the historical thriller genre, but if The Hot Country by Robert Olen Butler is in any way indicative of the quality of work to be found there, I need to get busy. Because this novel is as well-written, with characters as three-dimensional and interesting […]

Narrators Tap Into Their Darker Side for A Darker Shade of Sweden

November 27th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is excited to announce that the highly anticipated audio short-story collection, A Darker Shade of Sweden, will be read by a thrilling and impressive array of talent: Carol Monda, Scott Brick, Adam Grupper, Maggi-Meg Reed, Erik Bergmann, and Tavia Gilbert. Containing seventeen stories, all never before published in English, A Darker Shade of Sweden […]

Sweden behind the Shades

November 6th, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News

There’s been a lot of excitement about the forthcoming collection of short stories, A Darker Shade of Sweden, which will be published in February 2014 by The Mysterious Press and, I’m here to say with no small measure of gratification, by HighBridge Audio as well. The brouhaha has largely focused on the fact that it […]

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 […]

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 […]

Thomas’ Poll Winner: The Seersucker Whipsaw

September 30th, 2013 · No Comments · Uncategorized

One of the grand masters of the genre, Ross Thomas wrote 25 suspense novels in his long career, employing a well-crafted style and colorful characters who trade on snappy, witty dialogue to churn up the underbelly of many a political intrigue. The Mysterious Press Classic audio line from HighBridge has turned up a gem from […]

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 […]