To what lengths would you go to keep a past buried? Samantha Moore is the golden girl – with a perfect job, a perfect man, a perfect life – until a random act of violence changes everything. Unconscious for two months, Sam awakens from her coma a different person – bitter, in constant pain, and…
The suspense begins when four children are kidnapped on their way to summer camp. Shortly after the children are abducted, the parents are contacted with ransom demands, and the story quickly takes off. Narrator Tavia Gilbert’s dialogue and pacing are superb, easily adding to the tension created by Magee’s story. Character voicing, however, is largely…
Audible Editor Review: This debut legal thriller from Allison Leotta has something for everyone — romance, action, courtroom drama, a strong sense of place, and interesting characters. Talented narrator Tavia Gilbert gives an energetic performance, moving the novel along at a brisk pace. The Audie-nominated performer deftly switches among a diverse cast of characters, although…
Now available in audio, originally published in Women on the Case, an anthology of 26 original stories by the best women in crime writing, a short story featuring Linda Barnes’ feisty, redheaded, ex-cop private investigator, Carlotta Carlyle. Carlotta can’t stay away when she’s offered a beautiful piece of classic blues history – the guitar of…
Now available in audio, originally published in the Boston Globe Magazine, a short story featuring award-winning author Linda Barnes’ feisty, redheaded, cab-driving, ex-cop private investigator, Carlotta Carlyle. On a great day to take in a ball game at Fenway, a seemingly harmless run-in with a familiar petty thief throws Carlotta into a wild chase through…
Linda Barnes has written 12 books featuring Boston cab driver/PI Carlotta Carlyle, but it was in this 1986 Anthony Award-winning short story that Carlotta made her first appearance. Tavia Gibert is perfectly cast as the intelligent and determined detective. The production may be short, but it’s a little gem of an armchair mystery. Carlotta is…
From the Ivory Tower… Harvard professor Wilson Chaney has a secret and somebody knows it. His adulterous affair with a freshman ended just weeks before she wound up dead. The sole trace of his infatuation is a stack of missing love letters – and they’ve fallen into the wrong hands… To the Grave. Carlotta Carlyle…
When six-foot redhead ex-cop and Boston-based private investigator Carlotta Carlyle agrees to help an elderly recluse burglar-proof her apartment, the last thing she expected was that the woman would turn up dead. Now Carlotta must find out why the eccentric yet seemingly harmless Valentine Phipps isolated herself – and needed protection. Who would want to…
Two years after the conclusion of The Blue Hour, Merci and her son are living with her father. She’s also dating Mike McNally, a respected fellow officer. Merci and Mike are the golden couple on the force, and even if Merci doesn’t passionately love him, there’s a sort of comfortable inevitability to it all. But…
This blast from Parker’s past is as fresh today as when first published a decade ago. The plot may be familiar—a seemingly mismatched cop duo searches for a shrewd serial killer—but the spin the author gives it is as original and surprising as his characters. Tavia Gilbert is particularly on target in giving voice to…