Hollowpoint

Saturday, July 5th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

There was a time when Assistant District Attorney Andrew Giobberti pursued his job with vigor and a certain glee. He sent hundreds of perps upstate and commanded the respect of the tough Brooklyn cops whose investigations he steered. Now he mostly thinks about his next drink and the girl he can persuade to share it with him. A hand has reached into his chest and removed something that made the whole machine run.

She was five years old, and her name was Opal.

Over the course of one impossibly hot August, Gio’s life comes apart. It’s been a year since his daughter died, but the loss carves away at him still. A case much like others crosses his desk: young girl, dead from a gunshot wound, crackhead mother, very guilty looking boyfriend. Something in this ordinary if tawdry case uncovers a vast well of grief and rage in him, and it’s unclear who will be the target of his urge to avenge a pointless death. His steely associate, Stacey - with whom he shares his bed but nothing more - watches with alarm as he lurches toward an act that could prove to be destruction or redemption. He’s badly in need of one of them.
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Inc
Author: Rob Reuland
Narrator: David Colacci
ISBN: 1597103683
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Tags: Assistant District Attorney, Brilliance, Brooklyn, Cops, Desk, Gio, Glee, Grief, Gunshot, Investigations, Narrator, Pointless Death, Rage, Redemption, Rob Reuland, Target, Urge, Vigor, Watches, Young Girl

Bloody Mary

Monday, June 30th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Start with a tough but vulnerable Chicago cop. Stir in a psychopath with a unique mental condition that programs him to kill. Add a hyperactive cat, an ailing mother, a jealous boyfriend, a high-maintenance ex-husband, and a partner in the throes of a mid-life crisis. Mix with equal parts humor and suspense, and enjoy Bloody Mary.

When Jack receives a report of an excess of body parts appearing at the Cook County Morgue, she hopes it’s only a miscount. It’s not. Even worse, these extra limbs seem to be accessorized with Jack’s handcuffs.

Someone has plans for Jack. Very bad plans. Plans that involve everything and everyone that she cares about.

Jack must put her train wreck of a personal life on hold to catch an elusive, brilliant maniac - a maniac for whom getting caught is only the beginning.

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Inc
Author: J. A. Konrath
Narrator: Dick Hill and Susie Breck
ISBN: 9781597100892
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Tags: Bloody Mary, Body Parts, Brilliance, Chicago Cop, Cook County Morgue, Dick Hill, Extra Limbs, Handcuffs, High Maintenance, Humor, Jealous Boyfriend, Maniac, Mid Life Crisis, Narrator, Personal Life, Psychopath, Susie Breck, Suspense, Throes, Train Wreck

Snow Blind

Saturday, June 14th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

With the holidays over and the long cold winter looming, January can be a bleak month in Minneapolis. So what better way to bring a little cheer to the good people of the city than by sponsoring an old-fashioned snowman-building contest?

In a matter of hours, a local park is filled with the innocent laughter of children and their frosty creations. But things take an awful turn when the dead bodies of police officers are discovered inside two of the snowmen - sending the entire department and Detectives Magozzi and Rolseth on high alert.

The next day, Iris Rikker, the newly minted sheriff of rural Dundas County, comes across another body in another snowman. Fearing that Rikker’s inexperience will hamper the investigation, Magozzi and Rolseth head north - in a blizzard - to hunt for clues. As Grace MacBride and her crack computer jocks at Monkeewrench comb the Web for connections, a terrifying link emerges, connecting the dead cops, Magozzi and Rolseth, and Monkeewrench - a link that must be broken before it’s too late.

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Inc
Author: P. J. Tracy
Narrator: Mel Foster
ISBN: 978-1-59710-945-1
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Tags: Blizzard, Brilliance, Comb, Computer Jocks, Dead Bodies, Dead Cops, Detectives, Dundas County, Entire Department, Inexperience, Local Park, Long Cold Winter, Macbride, Mel Foster, Narrator, P J Tracy, Police Officers, Rsquo, Snow Blind, Snowmen

Newjack

Friday, June 13th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

Newjack
Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing is the story of Conover’s rookie year as a guard at Sing Sing. It is a nerve-jangling account of his passage into the storied prison and the culture of its guards - both fresh-faced "newjacks" like Conover and brutally hardened veterans. As he struggles to be a good officer, Conover angers inmates, dodges blows, works to balance decency with toughness, and participates in prison rituals - strip frisks, cell searches, cell "extractions" - that exact a toll on inmates and officers alike.

The tale begins with the corrections academy and ends with the flames and smoke of New Year’s Eve on Conover’s floor of the notorious B-Block. Along the way, Conover also recounts the history of Sing Sing, from draconian early punishment, to fame as the citadel of capital punishment, to its present status as New York State’s "bottom of the barrel" prison.

This book will become a landmark of American journalism - the definitive presentation of the impasse between the need to imprison criminals and the dehumanization of inmates and guards - that almost inevitably takes place behind bars.

"Newjack is an astonishing work by a gifted - and dedicated - journalist. Ted Conover takes us into the dangerous, sad, amusing and instructive soul of one of America’s best known prisons." — Tom Brokaw
Publisher: Brilliance Audio Inc
Author: Ted Conover
Narrator: Ted Conover
ISBN: 9781596006331
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Tags: American Journalism, Angers, Astonishing Work, Bottom Of The Barrel, Brilliance, Capital Punishment, Corrections Academy, Decency, Dehumanization, Dodges, Guarding Sing Sing, Impasse, Inmates, Narrator, Quot, Rituals, Rookie Year, Ted Conover, Tom Brokaw, Toughness

Jesus, the One and Only

Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 by Book Guy | No Comments »

In Jesus, the One and Only, Beth Moore introduces you to an intimate God in an up-close and personal portrait of the life of Jesus the Messiah. This is far more than just a work on the life of Christ. Jesus, the One and Only is a romance, and you are invited to become part of it. As He has done in the past, God will use Beth’s words to woo you into falling in love with Jesus of Nazareth. Come to know Christ personally. Watch and listen as He breaks up a funeral by raising the dead, confronts conniving religious leaders of His day, teaches on a Galilean hillside, or walks on the waves and calms the storm. Like a ragtag band of followers nearly two thousand years ago, you will not be the same.

Publisher: Brilliance Audio Inc
Author: Beth Moore
Narrator: Laural Merlington
ISBN: 978-1-4233-0403-6
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