HighBridge is pleased to announce that Award-winning audiobook narrator Simon Vance will be reading The Zhivago Affair by Peter Finn and Petra Couvée. The Zhivago Affair is the dramatic real-life story of how Russian poet Boris Pasternak’s first novel, Doctor Zhivago, became a CIA secret weapon and the centerpiece of an ideological battle between East […]
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Simon Vance to Read The Zhivago Affair
February 12th, 2014 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
Tags: audie·audiobook·AudioFile·CIA·Cold War·Doctor Zhivago·mystery·narrator·Simon Vance·thriller·Zhivago
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 […]
Tags: audiobook·featured audio giveaway·Mark Billingham·mystery·Simon Prebble·Sleepyhead·Tom Thorne
Kim Mai Guest to Narrate The Axe Factor
December 11th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News
HighBridge is pleased to announce that Kim Mai Guest will be reading The Axe Factor, the third and final installment in Colin Cotterill’s Jimm Juree series. With a major storm headed their way and a potential serial killer on the loose, it looks like journalist Jimm Juree, her eccentric family, and the whole town of […]
Tags: audiobook·Audiobooks·Colin Cotterill·jimm juree·kim mai guest·mystery·narrator·reader·The Axe Factor
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 […]
Tags: Mark Billingham·mystery·Scaredy Cat·Simon Prebble·Sleepyhead·thomas thorne·Tom Thorne
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 […]
Tags: audiobook·HighBridge·mysterious press·mysterious press-highbridge audio classic·mystery·R. C. Bray·The City When It Rains·Thomas H. Cook
Attention all Colin Cotterill fans!
October 16th, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News
I’m thrilled to announce that we recently acquired the audio rights to the third and final book in the Jimm Juree mystery series by Colin Cotterill. The title is The Axe Factor and will be available simultaneously with the St. Martin’s Press hardcover in April of 2014. His first two, Killed at the Whim of […]
Tags: audio book·Colin Cotterill·dr siri·grandad there's a head on the beach·jimm juree·killed at the whim of a hat·mystery·Thailand·The Axe Factor
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 […]
Tags: audiobook·David Housewright·detective·minneapolis·mysterious press·mystery·Penance·police·R. C. Bray·St. Paul
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 […]
Tags: audiobook·donald westlake·dortmunder·folly leads man to ruin·jeff woodman·mysterious press·mysterious press-highbridge audio classic·mystery·nobody's perfect