Mary Purucker was a school librarian at all levels, taught Children's Literature and Young Adult Literature at several universities, has written many reviews for professioal journals,and now works in the Children's Department of a public library.
Thu, Jan 01, 2009
Chrisopher Fowler is the acclaimed author of fifteen previous novels, including the award-winning Full Dark House, and four other Peculiar Crimes Unit mysteries, White Corridor, The Water Room, Seventy-Seven Clocks, and Ten Second Staircase. He lives in London.
Thu, Jan 01, 2009
Bill Pronzini has published sixty novels, including three in collaboration with his wife, novelist Marcia Muller, and twenty-nine in his popular "Nameless Detective" series. Pronzini has received three Shamus Awards, and six nominations for the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America. His work has been translated into eighteen languages and published in nearly thirty countries.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
In his thirty-five-year career, Emmy Award-winning writer Stephen J. Cannell has created more than forty TV series. Among his hits are The Rockford Files, Silk Stalkings, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hunter, Renegade, Wiseguy, and The Commish. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife and children.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
Since The Eagle Has Landed—one of the biggest-selling thrillers of all time—every novel Jack Higgins has written, including his most recent works, Bad Company and Midnight Runner, has become an international bestseller. He has had simultaneous number-one bestsellers in hardcover and paperback, and many of his books have been made into successful movies, including The Eagle Has Landed, To Catch a King, On Dangerous Ground, Eye of the Storm, and Thunder Point. He has degrees in sociology, social psychology, and economics from the University of London, and a doctorate in media from Leeds Metropolitan University. A fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and an expert scuba diver and marksman, Higgins lives in Jersey on the Channel Islands.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
RICHARD MONTANARI is a novelist, screenwriter, and essayist. His work has appeared in the Chicago Tribune, Detroit Free Press, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and scores of other national and regional publications. He is the OLMA-winning author of the internationally acclaimed thrillers Kiss of Evil, Deviant Way, and The Violet Hour–all published in more than twenty countries.
Fri, Mar 27, 2009
Rose Melikan is an academic and a novelist who has published fiction and non-fiction works. This is her debut novel.
Thu, Dec 25, 2008
SOUNDS GOOD TO ME is a new column that will highlight a personal anecdote or memorable experience involving audiobooks. Readers are invited to submit one of their own for possible future publication. If you have one you'd like to share, email it to francine@SoundCommentary.com. We will be happy to hear from you and consider your piece.
C. J. BOX is the author of four novels featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett. His debut novel, Open Season, was a New York Times Notable Book and won the prestigious Anthony Award, as well as nominations for the Edgar Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award.
Sat, Jan 24, 2009
Michael Harvey is the creator, writer, and executive producer of the television series Cold Case Files, as well as an Academy Award-nominee for his documentary Eyewitness, and is a former investigative reporter for CBS. He earned a law degree at Duke and a masters in journalism from Northwestern. He alsoowns a bar inChicago.
Sat, Feb 21, 2009
Janet Evanovich is the #1 bestselling author of the Stephanie Plum books, including Lean Mean Thirteen. She lives in New Hampshire and Florida.
Thu, Apr 30, 2009
Nancy Springer lives in Bonifay, Florida.
Sat, Apr 18, 2009
C. J. Box is the author of five Joe Pickett novels, and has won the Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards. He has also been an Edgar Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. A Wyoming native, Box serves on the board of directors for Cheyenne Frontier Days Rodeo
Sun, May 31, 2009
M. T. Anderson is the author of several novels for Young Adults, including THE ASTONISHING LIFE OF OCTAVIAN NOTHING, a National Book Award Winner and a Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist; FEED, a National Book Award Finalist and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; and two darkly entertaining novels (THIRSTY and BURGER WUSS). M.T. Anderson is the author of several notable picture books, including THE SERPENT CAME TO GLOUCESTER, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline; ME ALL ALONE AT THE END OF THE WORLD, illustrated by Kevin Hawkes; and a picture book biography, HANDEL WHO KNEW WHAT HE LIKED, also illustrated by Kevin Hawkes. The author teaches at Vermont College's MFA Program in Writing for Children and lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Sun, May 31, 2009
Stuart M. Kaminsky is the author of more than 60 novels and an Edgar Award winner who has been given the coveted Grand Master Award by the Mystery Writers of America. In addition to his Lew Fonesca series (for which the Sarasota Convention and Visitors Bureau has officially recognized him as “The Voice of Sarasota”), Kaminsky is also the creator of the critically acclaimed Inspector Rostinkov, Toby Peters, and Abe Lieberman mystery series. He resides with his family naturally enough, in Florida.
Sun, May 31, 2009
C. J. Box is the author of seven Joe Pickett novels and has won the Anthony, Macavity, Gumshoe, and Barry awards, as well as the French Prix Calibre .38. He has also been an Edgar Award and Los Angeles Times Book Prize finalist. His novel Open Season was a New York Times Notable Book. He lives outside Cheyenne, Wyoming with his family.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
CHARLIE HUSTON is the author of the Los Angeles Times bestseller The Shotgun Rule, The Henry Thompson Trilogy (which includes the Edgar-nominated Six Bad Things), and The Joe Pitt Casebooks.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Ace Atkins earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination in 2001 for his investigation into a forgotten murder of the 1950s that became the basis for his novel White Shadow. His next novel, Wicked City, was based on the true story of “the Wickedest City in America”
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Anne Perry is the bestselling author of two acclaimed series set in Victorian England: the William Monk novels, including Dark Assassin and The Shifting Tide, and the Charlotte and Thomas Pitt novels, including Buckingham Palace Gardens and Long Spoon Lane. She is also the author of the World War I novels No Graves As Yet, Shoulder the Sky, Angels in the Gloom, At Some Disputed Barricade, and We Shall Not Sleep, as well as six holiday novels, most recently A Christmas Grace. Anne Perry lives in Scotland.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Lincoln Child is the author of Death Match and the bestselling Utopia, as well as co-author, with Douglas Preston, of numerous New York Times Bestsellers (including The Book of the Dead, Dance of Death, The Cabinet of Curiosities, Still Life With Crows, and Relic). He lives with his wife and daughter in Morristown, New Jersey.
Tue, Jun 30, 2009
ALAN GARNER is the award-winning author of Elidor, The Owl Service, The Moon of Gomrath, The Weirdstone of Brisingamen, and The Stone Book Quartet. He lives in Cheshire, England.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
ANDREW GRANT is a former telecommunications executive. He is the younger brother of Lee Child, author of the New York Times best-selling Jack Reacher novels. He lives in the United Kingdom.
Sat, Aug 01, 2009
GERALD KOLPAN was born in New York City and grew up in New Rochelle, New York. He now lives in Philadelphia.
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Joe Gores, formerly a private eye, is the author of sixteen other novels, including Hammett, which won Japan’s Falcon Award. He has received three Edgar Awards—one of only two authors to win in three separate categories: Best First Novel, Best Short Story, and Best Episode in a TV Series.
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality.
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Laurie R. King became the first novelist since Patricia Cornwell to win prizes for Best First Crime Novel on both sides of the Atlantic with the publication of her debut thriller, A Grave Talent. She is the bestselling author of four contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, the award-winning Mary Russell series, and the bestselling novels A Darker Place, Folly, and Keeping Watch. She lives in northern California. Bantam will publish her next Russell and Holmes mystery in 2010.
Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Michael Connelly is the bestselling author of the Harry Bosch series of novels as well as The Poet, Blood Work, Void Moon, Chasing the Dime, andthe #1 New York Times bestseller The Lincoln Lawyer. He is a former newspaper reporter who has won numerous awards for his journalism and his novels. He spends his time in California and Florida.
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
A Study in Scarlet is the first story to feature Sherlock Holmes and his trusty friend, Dr. Watson.
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Peter Abrahams is the bestselling author of Delusion, Nerve Damage, End of Story, Oblivion, The Fan, Behind the Curtain, and Into the Dark as well as Lights Out and Down the Rabbit Hole, for both of which he received Edgar Award nominations. Peter makes his home in Falmouth, Massachusetts, with his wife and four children.
Thu, Oct 01, 2009
Donald E. Westlake (1933 - 2008) has written dozens of novels under his own name and a rainbow of pseudonyms. Many of his books have been adapted for film, most notably The Hunter, which became the 1967 noir Point Blank, and the 1999 smash Payback.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Four mysterious letters change Miranda’s world forever.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Michael Robertson works for a large company with branches in the United States and England. The Baker Street Letters is his first novel and has been optioned by Warner Bros. for television. He lives in Southern California.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Love Liu is an adolescent growing up in Urumqui in Xinjiang China during the darkest days of the Cultural Revolution.
Sun, Nov 01, 2009
Douglas Preston, a regular contributor to The New Yorker, worked for the American Museum of Natural History. He is an expert horseman who has ridden thousands of miles across the West. Lincoln Child is a former book editor and systems analyst who has published numerous novels and anthologies.
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Lisa Lutz is the author of Revenge of the Spellmans, The Spellman Files, a New York Times best-seller, and Curse of the Spellmans, a national best-seller and nominee for the 2008 Edgar® Award for Best Novel. Although she attended UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, the University of Leeds in England, and San Francisco State University, she still does not have a bachelor's degree. Lisa spent most of the 1990s hopping through a string of low-paying odd jobs while writing and rewriting the screenplay Plan B, a mob comedy. After the film was made in 2000, she vowed she would never write another screenplay. A motion picture adaptation of The Spellman Files is in development with Paramount Pictures.
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Clive Cussler is the author of numerous New York Times bestsellers. Grant Blackwood, a U.S. Navy veteran, spent three years on a guided missile frigate. He is the author of the Briggs Tanner series.
Tue, Dec 01, 2009
Siobhan Dowd’s novels include A Swift Pure Cry, for which she was named a Publishers Weekly Flying Start author, The London Eye Mystery, and Bog Child. She passed away in August of 2007 from breast cancer.
Thu, Dec 31, 2009
TREVANIAN (Rodney Whitaker, 1931-2005) was the best-selling author of Shibumi, The Eiger Sanction, The Main, Summer of Katya, and Incident at Twenty Mile. He was also an educator in communication and dramatic arts, and wrote nonfiction books under his own name. His books have been translated into more than fourteen languages.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
JOSEPH FINDER is the author of several critically acclaimed, bestselling thrillers including Power Play and Killer Instinct. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Howard Pyle (1853-1911) was an American illustrator and writer, primarily of books for young audiences. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy. His 1883 classic The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood remains in print to this day, and his other books, frequently with medieval European settings, include a four-volume set on King Arthur that cemented his reputation. He wrote an original work, Otto of the Silver Hand, in 1888. He also illustrated historical and adventure stories for periodicals such as Harper's Weekly and St. Nicholas Magazine. His Men of Iron was made into a movie in 1954, The Black Shield of Falworth
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Michael Crichton's novels include Next, State of Fear, Prey, Timeline, Jurassic Park, and The Andromeda Strain. He is also known as a filmmaker and the creator of ER. One of the most popular writers in the world, he has sold over 150 million books, which have been translated into thirty-six languages; thirteen have been made into films. He remains the only writer to have had the number one book, movie, and TV show at the same time. Pirate Latitudes was discovered as a complete manuscript in his files after his death in 2008.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
JAMES W. FUERST spent his teenage years in New Jersey and now lives in Brooklyn. He earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University and holds an M.F.A from The New School. Huge is his first novel.
Mon, Feb 01, 2010
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories. He was the author of the Importance of Being Earnest; The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Happy Prince and many other works.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
Jack London (1876-1916), by turns a renegade adventurer, a war correspondent, and an avowed socialist, first achieved fame with The Son of the Wolf (1900), a collection of short stories drawn from his experiences in the Klondike gold rush. "The greatest story Jack London ever wrote was the story he lived, said Alfred Kazin.
Mon, Mar 01, 2010
James Patterson is the author of the two most popular detective series of the past decade, featuring Alex Cross and the Women's Murder Club. He has won an Edgar Award--the mystery world's highest honor--and his novels Kiss the Girls and Along Came a Spider were made into feature films. His lifelong work to promote books and reading is reflected in his new Web site, ReadKiddoRead.com, which helps parents, grandparents, teachers, and librarians find the very best children's books for their kids. He lives in Florida. Richard DiLallo is a former advertising creative director. He has had numerous articles published in major magazines. He lives in Manhattan with his wife.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894) is one of the most famous popular authors of modern times. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland the novelist, poet and travel writer was the author of world famous books such as Treasure Island and The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde as well as this classic and much loved children's poetry collection A Child's Garden of Verse.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Reginald Hill has been widely published both in England and the United States. He received Britain's most coveted mystery writers award, the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award, as well as the Golden Dagger for his Dalziel/Pascoe series. He lives with his wife in Cumbria, England.
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Joseph Kanon is the author of four other novels, Los Alamos, The Good German, The Prodigal Spy and Alibi. Before becoming a full-time writer, he was a book publishing executive. He lives in New York City
Thu, Apr 01, 2010
Jasper Fforde traded a varied career in the film industry for staring vacantly out of the window and arranging words on a page. He lives and writes in Wales. The Eyre Affair was his first novel in the bestselling Thursday Next series. He is also the author of the Nursery Crime series.
Sat, May 01, 2010
Clive Cussler began writing novels in 1965 and published his first work featuring his continuous series hero, Dirk Pitt(R), in 1973. Cussler is an internationally recognized authority on shipwrecks and the founder of the National Underwater and Marine Agency, (NUMA) a 501C3 non-profit organization (named after the fictional Federal agency in his novels) that dedicates itself to preserving American maritime and naval history. Jack du Brul is the author of the Philip Mercer series, and the coauthor with Clive Cussler of four Oregon Files novels. He lives in Vermont.m
Sat, May 01, 2010
Award-winning crime novelist Michael Connelly decided to become a writer after discovering the books of Raymond Chandler while attending the University of Florida. Once he decided on this direction he chose a major in journalism and a minor in creative writing. After three years on the crime beat in L.A., Connelly began writing his first novel to feature LAPD Detective Hieronymus Bosch. Check out his website for more detailed (and fascinating) background information www.michaelconnelly.com.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
WALLACE STEGNER (1903-1993) was the author of many books of fiction and non-fiction, including the National Book Award-winning The Spectator Bird (1976) and Crossing to Safety. Angle of Repose won the Pulitzer Prize in 1971.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Anne Rice is the author of twenty-nine books. She lives in Rancho Mirage, California.
Tue, Jun 01, 2010
Ian Rankin is a worldwide bestselling writer, and has won an Edgar Award for a mystery, a Gold Dagger for fiction, a Diamond Dagger for career excellence, and the Chandler-Fulbright Award. He lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Lee Child is the author of fourteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including the New York Times bestsellers Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, and The Hard Way, and the #1 bestsellers Gone Tomorrow, Bad Luck and Trouble, and Nothing to Lose. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero awards for Best Novel. Child, a native of England and a former television director, lives in New York City, where he is at work on his next thriller.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Mark de Castrique grew up in the mountains of western North Carolina. Mark is a veteran of the television and film production industry, and he serves as an adjunct professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Mark and his wife, Linda, live in Charlotte.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Richard A. Thompson is a former civil engineer and construction manager who traded his hard hat for a laptop and now writes full time.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
M.C. Beaton lives in the Cotswolds with her husband. In addition to the Hamish Macbeth series, she writes the Agatha Raisin mystery series.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. His three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his plays. Success, however, was short-lived. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. Wilde lost the case and was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900.
Thu, Jul 01, 2010
Born in South Africa, Peter Temple is one of Australia's most acclaimed writers, and has worked as a journalist, magazine editor, and teacher. He is the author of eight novels, four of which have received the Ned Kelly Award for crime fiction. Black Tide is the second title in his celebrated Jack Irish series.
Sat, Jul 31, 2010
Charles Todd is the author of eleven Ian Rutledge mysteries, the first Bess Crawford mystery, and one stand-alone novel. A mother-and-son writing team, they live in Delaware and North Carolina, respectively.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Laurie R. King is the New York Times bestselling author of ten Mary Russell mysteries, five contemporary novels featuring Kate Martinelli, and the acclaimed novels A Darker Place, Folly, Keeping Watch, and Touchstone. She lives in Northern California where she is currently at work on her next novel.
Sun, Aug 01, 2010
Paul Tremblay has won acclaim for his short fiction, and received two nominations for the 2007 Bram Stoker Award. He lives in Massachusetts with his wife, two children, a hairy dog, and a soggy basement, where he is at work on a follow-up to The Little Sleep. His Web site is www.paultremblay.net.
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Clive Cussler is the author of many New York Times bestsellers, most recently Spartan Gold and The Wrecker. He lives in Arizona. Justin Scott's twenty-four novels include The Shipkiller and Normandie Triangle; the Ben Abbott detective series; and five modern sea thrillers published under his pen name Paul Garrison. He is the coauthor with Clive Cussler of The Wrecker. He lives in Connecticut.
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Nelson DeMille is the author of 15 previous novels. He lives on Long Island, New York.
Wed, Sep 01, 2010
Janet Evanovich is the author of the Stephanie Plum novels, twelve romance novels, the Alexandra Barnaby novels, and How I Write: Secrets of a Bestselling Author. She lives in New Hampshire and Florida.
Thu, Sep 30, 2010
Mrs Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865) was a friend of Charlotte Bronte and Charles Dickens, who first accepted Cranford for publication in his magazine Household Words. Along with short stories and a biography of Charlotte Brontë, Gaskell published five more novels including Mary Barton (1848) and Wives and Daughters (1865).
Fri, Oct 01, 2010
CHRISTOPHER REICH is the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Deception, Rules of Vengeance, Numbered Account, and The Runner. His novel The Patriots Club won the International Thriller Writers award for Best Novel in 2006.
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
As a naval aviator, STEPHEN COONTS flew combat missions during the Vietnam War. A former attorney and the author of fifteen New York Times bestsellers, he and his wife reside in Colorado. Visit his Web site at www.coonts.com. Deep Black co-author William H. Keith has written nearly eighty books over the past twenty-five years. His novels, published under the pseudonyms Ian Douglas and H. Jay Riker, are geopolitical thrillers with an emphasis on the Marines and submarine warfare. A veteran of the Navy, he lives in western Pennsylvania.
Mon, Nov 01, 2010
Paul Doiron is the editor-in-chief of Down East: The Magazine of Maine. A native of Maine, he attended Yale University, where he graduated with a degree in English, and he holds an MFA in creative writing from Emerson College. Paul is a Registered Maine Guide and lives on a trout stream in coastal Maine with his wife, Kristen Lindquist. Please visit his Web site at www.pauldoiron.com.
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Farley Mowat has recorded his experiences in several highly successful books for both adults and children, including People of the Deer, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be, The Desperate People, A Whale for the Killing, and The Boat Who Wouldn't Float.
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Alex Dryden is a writer and journalist with many years of experience in security matters. When the Berlin Wall came down in 1989, Dryden watched the statues of Lenin fall across the former Soviet Union. Since then he has charted the false dawn of democracy in Russia as the country morphed into the world's most powerful secret state. Dryden's knowledge of the secret world in this new and growing East-West conflict has informed both of his novels Red to Black and Moscow Sting.
Wed, Dec 01, 2010
Jonathan L. Howard is a game designer and scriptwriter who has worked in the computer games industry since the early nineties, notably co-scripting the first three Broken Sword adventure games. This is his first novel. He lives near Bristol with his wife and daughter.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Clive Cussler is the author of many New York Times bestsellers, most recently The Silent Sea and The Spy. He lives in Arizona. Grant Blackwood, a U.S. Navy veteran, spent three years aboard a guided-missile frigate as an operations specialist and pilot-rescue swimmer. The author of the Briggs Tanner series, Blackwood is the coauthor of Spartan Gold. He lives in Colorado.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
GREGG HURWITZ is the author of several novels, including Trust No One, and has been a finalist for the ITW Best Novel and the Ian Fleming Gold Dagger. He lives in Los Angeles.
Fri, Jan 01, 2010
Will Adams worked as a shop salesman, painter & decorator, warehouse porter and microfiche technician, before joining a Washington DC-based firm of business history consultants. He wrote a series of corporate histories and biographies for them, taking time off between projects to travel in search of exotic settings for his stories. More recently, he worked for a London communications agency, but he now concentrates on writing fiction full-time. He lives in Essex, England.
Mon, Jan 31, 2011
Vince Flynn is the author of twelve thrillers, including Pursuit of Honor, Extreme Measures, and American Assassin. Visit his website at www.vinceflynn.com.
Mon, Jan 31, 2011
In his thirty-five-year-career, Emmy Award-winning writer (author of 15 crime novels) and television producer STEPHEN J. CANNELL (1941-2010) created over forty TV series, including The Rockford Files, Silk Stalkings, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hunter, The Greatest American Hero, Renegade, Wiseguy, and The Commish.
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
LEE CHILD is the author of fifteen Jack Reacher thrillers, including Persuader, The Enemy, One Shot, and The Hard Way, 61 Hours, Gone Tomorrow, Bad Luck and Trouble, and Nothing to Lose. His debut, Killing Floor, won both the Anthony and the Barry awards for Best First Mystery, and The Enemy won both the Barry and Nero awards for Best Novel. A native of England and a former television director, Child lives in New York City, where he is at work on his next thriller.
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
In his thirty-five-year-career, Emmy Award-winning writer (author of 15 crime novels) and television producer STEPHEN J. CANNELL (1941-2010) created over forty TV series, including The Rockford Files, Silk Stalkings, The A-Team, 21 Jump Street, Hunter, The Greatest American Hero, Renegade, Wiseguy, and The Commish.
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
despite Brick’s masterful, fully-voiced narration, as the authors advise, MAYDAY is not an audiobook listeners will want to listen to on a flight anywhere
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
MICHAEL PALMER is the author of fifteen novels of medical suspense, all international bestsellers. His books have been translated into thirty-five languages. In addition to this writing, Palmer is an associate director of the Massachusetts Medical Society Physician Health Services, devoted to helping physicians troubled by mental illness, physical illness, behavioral issues, and chemical dependency.
Fri, Apr 01, 2011
Clive Cussler is the author of many bestselling novels, most recently The Silent Sea, The Spy and Lost Empire. Dirk Cussler is the coauthor with Clive Cussler of Black Wind, Treasure of Khan, and Arctic Drift.
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
This is a rollicking good tale that fans of Lauren Willig and readers of Eva Ibbotson’s romantic adventures will enjoy
Wed, Jun 01, 2011
The terrifically delineated characters, the compelling plot based on a real historical event with its relevance to modern events, and the outstanding narration make this well worth listening to
Tue, May 31, 2011
Stage, television, film actor Lou Diamond Phillips is one of the best narrators I’ve heard. I like the way he differentiates between the deeper voiced Jack Ryan Sr. and the lighter tone of Jack Ryan Jr…. All in all this is great for a really long road trip especially with the bonus discs!
Tue, May 31, 2011
Jason Culp has the perfect low timbered voice for … A good tale that moves rapidly that will intrigue fans of westerns as well as adventure.
Fri, Jul 01, 2011
Mozhan Marno obviously knows the accents and people of Afghanistan and renders them flawlessly….
Sun, Jul 31, 2011
Jason Culp for the most part is an even toned narrator who manages the pacing of the tale professionally and is fine with the narrative part.... Cussler is his usual self with lots of plot and lots of action
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
Actor and Award-winning narrator Simon Vance, with his aristocratic English accent, impeccable pacing, and fluidity of characterization gets everything right
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
This is rapid paced, with a filled plot and spicy behind the scenes look, at the gambling capital of America.
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
Clancy followers who were expecting a sequel to Dead or Alive will be disappointed, but shouldn’t be.... [This is] bloody, violent, and brutal but ultimately gripping especially with [Steven] Weber’s narration
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
Zane Grey wrote a book meant to be read aloud and award winning actor and narrator Mark Bramhall was meant to read it
Thu, Sep 01, 2011
This was so good, I let myself listen to it twice and I could do it again this very minute.
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“Whether it’s the western landscape, the young Val, the mature Val, or one of an assortment of females, [narrator Beau] Bridges uses his flexible sometimes gruff low voice to capture them all. I hope he reads more L’Amour.”
Sat, Oct 01, 2011
“...[narrator]Scott Brick is so good with characterization, assimilating the voices, accents and personalities of the characters; he always understands the plot and how to move it along but still give his listeners time to catch their collective breaths between quickly moving events.
Tue, Nov 01, 2011
“This is excellent listening for those who relish a mixture of the bizarre along with a well told mystery.”
Tue, Nov 01, 2011
“Brad Meltzer knows how to write a page turner and Scott Brick knows how to keep his audience listening.”
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
“Some Russell fans may not know what to make of it all, but it’s a rousing tale and when Holmes finally does show up and Russell throws him overboard—oh my and oh well. Good fun.”
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
“Narrator Steven Crossley’s cultured British voice is pleasing; he never seems to get too excited about the horrid scenes he is narrating.
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
“In just five discs, L’Amour and the narrator, Edward Herrman, create characters, adventure, landscape, and a time the listener cares about. “
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
“Good listening for Western fans and anyone else who likes a robust tale of good morality vs. evil.”
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
“This time there is as much sex as violence all brilliantly played out by Dick Hill who seems to relish every moment of the detailed affair between Deveraux and Reacher. When the listener thinks the final crisis has been reached, there are more discs to go.”
Thu, Dec 01, 2011
“Scott Brick intrepidly makes his way through the mixture of historical figures, aviation techno-talk, and rapid fire conflicts in the air and on the ground, between Bell, Frost and other villains.”
Sat, Jan 01, 2011
“Good listening for nostalgic remembering and for those who have never heard the story that is at the heart of the hardboiled detective genre.”
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Lorelei King does her usual excellent job narrating the really rather normal sounding Stephanie, the raucous and lovable Lula, Grandma and all the rest. Good fun.”
Wed, Feb 01, 2012
“Mark Bramhall’s narration is gripping and terrifying and it’s probably best not to be driving while listening....”
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
“Good plot, interesting characters, and accurate history make this well worth listening to.”
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
“George Guidall’s familiar voice, excellent narration and his personification of all the characters would be hard to better.”
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
“The language is rich, apt, descriptive and droll.”
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
Slotz is a seedy little casino in Cloisters, New Jersey and Dan McEvoy is the Irish ex Brit sergeant who takes care of business: keeping the hostesses safe, managing brawls, and throwing the rascals out.
Wed, Feb 29, 2012
Teenagers chewing salvia, hanging out in the Nebraska forest, watching a strange light show in the sky, and unaware of being filmed for You Tube are suddenly victims of chaos in the form of massive electric shock and awe. Several end up dead, others are wounded.
Sun, Apr 01, 2012
“This is one of those tales you don’t want to end and you want to end well.”
Sun, Apr 01, 2012
“Winslow has a wonderful time describing and weaving in the reality of New York City in 1958: From Broadway, to the eateries, the nightclubs, the personalities, the closeted homosexuals, the FBI and Hoover, McCarthy hearings Central Park, Rockefeller Center, and a detailed description of the Giants-Colts game in Yankee stadium.”
Tue, May 01, 2012
“In the second prequel to the Mitch Rapp series (following American Assassin) Rapp is a little older and smarter if not wiser and determined to rid the world of terrorists and their enablers who are responsible for murderous actions....”
Tue, May 01, 2012
“... [Buck Schirner] tells a good tale and keeps his audience involved in the complications of the action that are as vast as the lake itself.”
Tue, May 01, 2012
“Amy Rubinaire’s light girlish voice is exactly right for Nellie and easily moves among the other characters with just the right touch.”
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