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Title: The Shooting Script

Subtitle: A Novel of Suspense

Author: Laurence Klavan

Narrator: Nick Sullivan

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-22-10

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 4 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Roy Milano, a self-described movie detective who is devoted to finding, hoarding, and reciting arcane information about films, once again stumbles into a murder case - this one centering on a copy of Jerry Lewis's infamous uncompleted film, The Day the Clown Cried, shot in Sweden in 1972. Though rough cuts were apparently screened for the filmmaker's colleagues and Hollywood insiders, the movie was quickly suppressed and never exhibited to the general public or to any critic or film historian. And now certain cinema buffs are ready to kill to possess that elusive footage. It's up to Roy to save the day, and the film, before everything unspools.

Members Reviews:

Listen to "The Cutting Room" first

I don't think this one stands alone (I had read the other already) as there are references to past events. I listened more for the narration, than the plot - which was all over the place - requiring active suspension of belief in several places.

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Title: Tooth and Claw

Author: Nigel McCrery

Narrator: Mark Meadows

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 27 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-01-10

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

DCI Mark Lapslie suffers from a rare neurological condition that cross-wires his senses. The sickening clamour of sounds he can taste has smothered his marriage and stifled his career...and its getting worse. His colleagues have written him off as a drunk or worse and Lapslie has quarantined himself in an isolated Essex cottage.

Carl Whittley has got his own problems to deal with too: hes just tortured a minor TV celebrity to death and blown an apparently anonymous commuter to pieces. DCI Lapslie is drawn into a deadly game where the troubled detective might just discover that his gravest weakness is also his greatest strength.

Nigel McCrery worked as a detective in the Nottinghamshire Constabulary, until he left the force to study at Cambridge University. He has created and written some of the most successful television series, including Silent Witness, Born & Bred, New Tricks and All the Kings Men. He is also the author of five internationally bestselling Sam Ryan mysteries. Nigel lives in North London.

Members Reviews:

Tooth and Claw and lots of gore

I picked up Tooth and Claw because I am a fan of the TV series "Silent Witness" and "New Tricks," which feature unusual scenarios and even more unusual characters, and in this respect was not disappointed at all.

The detective, DCI Mark Lapslie, suffers from a neurological complaint called synaesthesia, something I had never heard of before. Apparently, it is a bizarre cross-wiring in the brain, where sensations are registered by the wrong organ. Some people see numbers and letters as colors, while others feel tastes with their skin -- chicken might be prickly, while cucumber might be hot. Lapslie "hears" sounds as tastes -- a knock on his front door tastes like herrings, while his partner, Emma Bradbury, has a voice with a soothing citrus tang. A train rushing by causes such a gush of salt and caramel in his mouth that he is forced to vomit. Very hampering.

The serial killer is described and developed just as carefully. He has porphyria, the disease that we know best from the film "The Madness of King George." His urine is purple, and he thinks he is being watched and followed. He is also a remarkably savage sadist -- and that is the major flaw of the book. His nastiness is described in just too much detail, by a writer who is an expert with words. Some pages were so repulsive that I had to skim and skip. On the plus side, though, he is understandable. Read to the end to find the real culprit.

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Title: Mary & Carol Higgins Clark in Conversation with Connie Martinson (2010): Los Angeles Times Festival of Books

Subtitle: Panel 1012

Author: Carol Higgins Clark, Mary Higgins Clark

Format: Original Recording

Length: 46 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-06-10

Publisher: Los Angeles Times

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books began in 1996 with a simple goal: to bring together the people who create books with the people who love to read them. The festival was an immediate success and has become the largest and most prestigious book festival in the country, attracting more than 130,000 book lovers each year.

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Title: Control

Author: John Macken

Narrator: Andrew Wincott

Format: Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 18 mins

Language: English

Release date: 08-03-10

Publisher: Random House AudioBooks

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Two murders, days apart but clearly linked. Each victim has had the tips of their fingers removed with a hacksaw.

The killer is sending a message and wants his next victim to know who they are and be very afraid. But beside the gruesome nature of their deaths, there is no obvious connection between the two victims. Reuben Maitland, freshly returned to GeneCrime, must investigate the case.

The forensics come in, DNA is sampled, the clues begin to mount up. Then the killer strikes again, but not to kill: Reubens young son, Joshua, is snatched from his pram. The murderer sends Reuben a message: Stop hunting me. I will kill again, a third and final victim and you must not stop me. Come after me and your son will die.

If your child was kidnapped, how far would you go to get him back?

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Title: The Railway Man

Author: John Dean

Narrator: Gordon Griffin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins

Language: English

Release date: 07-22-10

Publisher: ISIS Audio Books

Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 2 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When the opening of a railway museum is marred by the murder of a former rail man, Detective Chief Inspector John Blizzard finds himself confronting some awkward truths. Not only does he have to consider the unpalatable possibility that his friends could be concealing vital information from him, but he soon discovers that the dead mans legacy is a dark shadow that spreads across the northern city of Hafton. In the end, though, John Blizzard has to confront a betrayal that he never thought possible.

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Title: A Shroud for Jesso

Author: Peter Rabe

Narrator: William Roberts

Format: Unabridged

Length: 6 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

Jack Jesso knows that Gluck wants him out of the syndicate. Still, when Gluck sends him on an errand to find a missing guy named Snell for a shady client of his, Johannes Kator, Jesso doesnt figure it to be anything more than a test. He finds the guy alright - sick and rambling - but Gluck double-crosses him, and tosses Jesso on a Europe-bound steamer with Kators crew, their orders to kill him. Jesso quickly realizes that he holds the key to a big money deal in Snells ramblings, information that Kator desperately needs. All he has to do to stay alive is keep Kator interested. Its a simple enough scheme - until Jesso meets Kators beautiful sister, Renette.

Members Reviews:

Weird, uneven.

Publication date: 1955

Some of Rabe's best qualities, and some of his worst make for a very uneven reading experience. Like some modernist 'musician's musician,' Rabe, who is the pulp writer's pulp writer, is so daringly experimental that it will astound or inspire a fellow practitioner (Donald Westlake has paid consistent tribute to Rabe as an influence) while leaving ordinary readers scratching their heads.

Jesso is a pushy mid-level mobster whose boss puts him on the spot. Rabe does a very good job conveying the frantic pace at which Jesso runs:

Jesso hung up. This job was going to be over so fast that Gluck was going to have sleepless nights thinking of bigger and better ways to get under Jessoâs skin.

âWhere are you going?â Kator was still by the window.

âTo find your man. Iâll phone you.â

âJust a moment.â Kator was in the middle of the room when Jesso turned. âYou will take one of my men with you. As I explained to you earlier â â Jesso stopped at the door. He made it short. âI work alone. Send one of your monkeys and you wonât find your man for weeks. Iâll see to that.â

He slammed the door.

Jesso gets himself into a bind, and fast thinking gets him out of a bind. Kator, the German spy who shanghais him, wants to kill him, but also needs him alive. This is all handled very well by Rabe.

Unfortunately the pace slackens in the second half of the book, when Jesso gets involved with Kator's sister, Renette. It may even be that Rabe conceived of Renette as the force that can slow Jesso down:

She stopped halfway down and looked at Jesso. At least, her eyes were turned in his direction. She massaged white gloves over her hands and wrists, and when she was through she got into the car.

And that was that. He stood a while, thinking about it. There are women like that. That was all that came to him.

Or, anyway, there is a woman like that.

Intentionally or not, the slowing down of Jesso is also the slowing down of the book, and the stylized sex of the second half, which is well-done enough, will not thrill 21st Century readers the way it would have the paperback readers of 1955.

not best Rabe

Jack Jesso is doing work for the syndicate alone and fast. Jesso does not realize that such arbitrariness could cost him his job, and even his life. After another "business trip" to Vegas, where Jesso works out the situation with his fists, his boss Gluck gives Jesso a chance to improve â to do a job for a mysterious German Kator. Because of his obstinacy Jesso alone finds for Kator his escaped associate, but violates several Katorâs requirements.

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Title: Death on the Double

Author: Henry Kane

Narrator: Stephen Bel Davies

Format: Unabridged

Length: 4 hrs and 59 mins

Language: English

Release date: 10-11-12

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 5 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The only uninvited guest was - murder! The host and the principal guests at the wildest, wickedest masquerade ball of the society season were: A playboy millionaire with more women than is good for the health of one man. A golden-limbed vixen who came masquerading as Eve - and wearing as little. A costumed killer with a murder in mind. And Peter Chambers, private eye.

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Title: Murder of a Bookman

Subtitle: A Bentley Hollow Collectibles Mystery, Book 1

Author: Gary Lovisi

Narrator: Ulf Bjorklund

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 50 mins

Language: English

Release date: 12-01-11

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When the police are asked to investigate the brutal murder of bookseller Brian MacDonald, who's been stabbed in the back with his letter opener, they have no trouble locating suspects, because MacDonald has been less than honest in his dealings. But Detective Bentley Hollow has problems of his own: his wife has left him, and he detests his new partner. Still, he has to find a solution to the crime, and when he does, his life will be irrevocably changed. The first in a new series.

Members Reviews:

very disappointed

Should have known at 101 pages, the story couldn't be told and it's ending was just blah. Waste of time and money. Not sure what else to say.

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Title: The Paperback Show Murders

Author: Robert Reginald

Narrator: Robert Armin

Format: Unabridged

Length: 2 hrs and 26 mins

Language: English

Release date: 09-21-11

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 6 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

When book dealer "Freddie the Cur" is murdered at a paperback show, Police Lt. Pfisch is forced to close the con. After all, this is the third untimely death of a show attendee in as many days. First there was Lissa Boaz, called the "Boa Constrictor" for her questionable business practices. Then came Brody Richard "The O-Man" Dameen, the drunken horror writer. What links these victims, other than collectible paperbacks? And why does the identification of the real author of an early Ace gothic even matter?

A comic mystery novel of the modern con scene.

Members Reviews:

Watch Out For Those Crazy Book Collectors

Paperback Murders is a fairly short novellete paying tongue-planted-firmly-in-cheek homage to old style paperback originals and those who collect them. It is by design a book that probably will appeal to a narrow audience. Each chapter begins with a parody of a classic paperback genre- some of these parodies are more thinly disguised than others. All the action (well, dialogue perhaps rather than swashbuckling action) takes place at a paperback collectors convention. Those who are familiar with all the old publishers will get all the inside references. It is a cute, easy to read spoof of a classic murder mystery. Enjoy.

A BOOK FOR ALL THOSE WHO DON'T REALIZE WHAT A BUSINESS PULP-BOOK COLLECTING HAS BECOME!

I remember a time in my youth, when I ran with several people who aspired to be writers, when we all figured how fun it would be to one day be writing published books throughout which we could make veiled or not-so-veiled references to each other and our writing.

Alas, as it turned out, I was the only one of that group who became a writer, therefore it was left up to me to make all the referencing of the others, although not any of their work (never accomplished).

How excited I am, therefore, to have just read THE PAPERBACK SHOW MURDERS by Robert Reginald, my editor at Wildside/Borgo Press, who has managed, as early as Chapter One, to reference my STARSHIP INTERCOURSE pulp novel (I wrote as Lambert Wilhelm). Later there's cryptic reference to a book INCIDENT AT CZYSCIMMIC which I can assume plays off my two "Spies and Lies" series books INCIDENT AT ABERLENE and INCIDENT AT BRIMZINSKY. There's a character Wilhelmina Lamberth (I wrote for Harlequin as Willa Lambert). There's a character Mina "Maltese".

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Title: Stone, Series 2: Collateral Damage (BBC Radio 4: Afternoon Play)

Author: Martin Jameson

Narrator: Hugo Speer

Format: Original Recording

Length: 43 mins

Language: English

Release date: 03-21-11

Publisher: BBC Worldwide Limited

Ratings: 2 of 5 out of 1 votes

Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Modern Detective

Publisher's Summary:

The second episode of Stone, Series 2, a BBC Radio 4 detective series created and written by Danny Brocklehurst, starring Hugo Speer as Stone. Collateral Damage was originally broadcast in the Afternoon Play slot on 6 October 2010.

In Collateral Damage, DCI John Stone is forced to open up an investigation into the death of Gary Taylor, a veteran of the Iraq War suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. The theory that he died from a self-inflicted drug overdose is turned on its head when one of his ex-army mates accuses Gary's grieving widow of having murdered him.

Starring Hugo Speer as John Stone, Craig Cheetham as Tanner and Deborah McAndrew as Sue. Also featured in the cast are Paul Oldham, Becky Hindley, Suranne Jones, Johann Myers, Andrew Westfield and Vivienne Harvey. Directed by Nadia Molinari.