Review – Exit Music by Ian Rankin

In what we are told will be the final Rebus novel, Inspector Rebus is about to retire.  As readers may be aware, the novels were written in real time. One  book a year, taking Rebus from 43 to 60 years of age and thus compulsory retirement from the Edinburgh police service.  In his final case, [...]

Review – Kate Atkinson’s Case Histories Audio Book

Jackson Brodie is a retired detective now working as a private investigator in Cambridge. Coming to terms with his failed marriage and a difficult past, he tackles three cold cases. This is the first in a series of “literary” crime novels by Kate Atkinson featuring Brodie.
In Case Histories, The cases he tackles are very different, [...]

Review – Fade Away by Harlan Coben

Fade Away by  Harlan Coben is the third novel in his Myron Bolitar series.  Random House Audio Assets has recently re-released in unabridged format the early Bolitar tales at a bargain price. All read by Jonathan Marosz. I confess, being used to listening to Scott Brick reading Coben’s titles, I wasn’t sure what to expect. [...]

Review: Resurrection Men by Ian Rankin

Ian Rankin’s Resurrection Men MP3 audio book, the 13th novel in the Inspector Rebus series was voted his best in a poll on the forum of his website. It’s an opinion that I agree wholeheartedly with.
The version reviewed is published by Brilliance and delivered on a single MP3 disc. The reader is Joe Dunlop.
Detective Inspector [...]

Review: The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien

The unabridged recording of The Hobbit read by Rob Inglis is the only unabridged version ever made. On 10 CDs, it is a truly wonderful production.
As an 18 year old I read The Lord of the Rings. It was the first book I’d ever read that made you feel like you [...]

Review – Juan Gomez-Jurado God’s Spy

Read by Kate Reading, God’s Spy by Juan Gomez-Jurado is a modern thriller set in the Vatican. Victor Karosky, A paedophile priest who has been chemically castrated is ritually murdering cardinals set to vote in the Conclave following the death of John Paul II. He is pursued by Paola Dicanti, Italian inspector for the Violent [...]

Review – Traveler by Ron McLarty

A Traveler is a bullet lodged in the body that much later moves and causes death.
I listened to The Memory of Running, McLarty’s debut soon after it was released. It was a soulful debut that left me looking forward to his next title. Ron McLarty’s Traveler shares some similarities with Memory of Running in that [...]

Just in – Peter Robinson Friend of the Devil – Unabridged

This audio book is a brand new release.
For me, this is one of the best Inspector Banks novels. Friend of the Devil is the tale of two murders in two towns investigated separately by Banks & Annie Cabbot that become linked. What’s particularly interesting is that Robinson resurrects characters from a previous non-Inspector Banks novel. [...]

A Thousand Splendid Suns Unabridged CD by Khaled Hosseini

A Thousand Splendid Suns tells the story of two women through a period of the last thirty years in Afghanistan. It tells of how their lives change & twist through the regime changes. It’s a novel about ordinary people and how their lives are affected and how they must cope through murderous regimes. The story [...]