Audio book expert Mary Ellen Botter offers the following: The payoff in most murder mysteries is learning who the killer is. But author Peter de Jonge digs further, laying out a "why" he answers and another "why" he leaves rattling...
From Mary Ellen Botter: Silly me. I thought a story about an adoptive mother fearful that her child might have been a kidnap victim before she got him would turn on custody issues. But true to her genre, Lisa Scottoline...
From resident audio book expert Mary Ellen Botter: Sworn to Silence Linda Castillo, author. Kathleen McInerney, reader Macmillan Audio, 9 disks, unabridged, $39.95 Texas writer Linda Castillo takes listeners to Ohio's Amish country, normally a place of bucolic peace. She...
Until Thursday, The New Yorker is offering a free download of John Lithgow reading Mark Twain's latest. Yes, that Mark Twain. Who Is Mark Twain? is a collection of unpublished (and some incomplete) work that Los Angeles Times says "is...
From audio book connoisseur Mary Ellen Botter: George Mallory was the original Spiderman, able to crawl up walls of perpendicular rock. Handsome, lithe and strong, the British mountaineer captured his nation's imagination in the early 1920s as the leader of...
Staff Writer Mary Ellen Botter takes a look at the audio version of "Agincourt", by Bernard Cornwell: Medieval warfare was gruesome, merciless and often turned on the haphazard or happenstance. To us, the details are shocking and disturbing. Yet if...
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