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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 […]

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 […]

R. C. Bray Continues Narration of Leo Maxwell Series

September 11th, 2013 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News

HighBridge is excited to announce that R. C. Bray will be narrating Lion Plays Rough by author Lachlan Smith, available in February. Bray previously narrated book one of the gritty legal thriller series, Bear is Broken. The series follows young attorney Leo Maxwell who is thrown into the world criminal defense after his brother, Teddy, […]

Tom Thorne Novels Come to America on Audio

September 9th, 2013 · No Comments · Acquisition News

In the UK, Mark Billingham is a national treasure, one of the most popular and celebrated crime writers on the island. Though he came to mystery novels only after turns at acting, stand-up comedy, and television writing, his Tom Thorne novels have all been best-sellers across the pond, and he was the first two-time winner of […]

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, […]

Gerard Doyle to Narrate Purgatory

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

HighBridge is proud to announce that Gerard Doyle will be narrating Purgatory, the tenth book in Ken Bruen’s Jack Taylor series. Gerard Doyle was born of Irish parentage and raised and educated in England. His 35-year acting career spans television, radio, and theatre on both sides of the Atlantic, including national and international touring, the […]

No mystery behind acclaim for KILLED AT THE WHIM OF A HAT- on audio today

July 19th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First

Critics have been unanimous in their praise for Killed at the Whim of a Hat, Colin Cotterill’s forthcoming novel and “What may be the best new international mystery series since the No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency.” (Booklist) And starting today, you can listen to this surefire bestseller in the format that everyone from the Guardian […]

Solving murders in between beers: Inspector Van Veeteren arrives in the U.S.

June 14th, 2011 · No Comments · Author/Narrator News, Hear It Here First

Poor Inspector Van Veeteren. All he wants to do is read books, drink beer, and maybe play a little chess, if anybody’s up for it. But instead, the reluctant hero of Håkan Nesser’s critically acclaimed mystery series is stuck solving murder after murder; and now, for the first time, we in the U.S. get the […]

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