Audio Reviews

A Truck Full of Money: One Man's Quest to Recover from Great Success, Random House Audio Publishing Group, Tracy Kidder, Paul Michael, 40 ISBN 978-0-7352-1034-9 Actor Michael brings a considerable range of talents to the latest offering from Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winner Kidder. (Sept.) Web Exclusive by Staff The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories, Random House Audio Publishing Group, P. D. James, Jenny Agutter, Daniel Weyman, 25 ISBN 978-1-5247-0806-1 Two of this quartet of posthumously collected short stories feature James's New Scotland Yard sleuth, Supt. Adam Dalgliesh, narrated crisply and with touches of wry humor by reader Weyman, the voice of the poet-detective in previous audiobooks. (Oct.) Review by Staff Hag-Seed, Random House Audio Publishing Group, Margaret Atwood, 35 ISBN 978-0-7352-8657-3 The fourth book in the Hogarth series of contemporary novels based on Shakespeare's plays is a delightfully complex and inventive modern recreation of The Tempest , in which the character of Prospero is a prominent theater festival director named Felix. (Oct.) Review by Staff Escape Clause, Penguin Audiobooks, John Sandford, Eric Conger, 40 ISBN 9780735288324 The ninth book in Sandford's Virgil Flowers series has Virgil, an agent for the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, and his crew hunting a pair of rare Amur tigers catnapped from the Minnesota Zoo. (Oct.) Review by Staff The Fall Guy, HighBridge Audio, James Lasdun, Charles Constant, 29.99 ISBN 978-1-6816-8244-0 In his new novel of psychological suspense, set in 2012, poet-author Lasdun places Matthew, a young, out-of-work chef, under a literary microscope,...