Fiction with some AudioBooks on CD

AudioBooks on CD

Keepsake by Tess Gerritsen. 9 CDs, 11 hours. This is the mummy-in-a-museum-basement-that's-actually-a-recent-murder-victim novel.

Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson. 16 CDs, 19 hours. Morally vaccuous guy gets in car wreck and is horribly burned. A sculpture visits him and says they were lover in medieval Germany. Released to her care he is dependent on painkillers and she hears God talking to her.

Fiction

The Given Day by Dennis Lehane. Post World War Boston with local cop Danny joining the union movement and hunting radicals. Real life characters are mixed into the fray.

Heat Lightning by John Sandford. Virgil Flowers gets caclled to Stillwater where the body of a homicide victim is left next to a veteran's memorial with a lemon in his mouth.

Tsar by Ted Bell. Alex Hawke is assigned to put find and stop to a mysterious and powerful Russian who hopes to be a new tsar. With control of Europe's oil supply and a mind to "reintegrate rogue states" the new tsar is threat to both Europe and the U.S. and is killing all who oppose him.

Night of Thunder by Stephen Hunter. Bob Lee Swagger's reporter daughter's car is forced into a crash. Bob Lee goes against a violent Dixie mobster clan, corrupt cops, "deranged evangelicals, and others. Set during the weeklong NASCAR race in Bristol, TN.
The last Bob Lee Swagger novel was a disappointment to me. Maybe this Hunter is back to form again.

Liberty by Garrison Keillor. Clint Bunsen is running this year's 4th of July parade in Lake Wobegon. But his "success breeds resentment" and with a personal crisis over his ancestry Clint is wondering whether he should run away with his much younger girlfriend or run for Congress.


Comforts of a Muddy Saturday by Alexander McCall Smith. Isabel Dalhousie looks into a local doctor's scientific fraud in commercial drug release.

Elfstones of Shannara by Terry Brooks. Replacement copy. The original hardcover was so popular it wore out.

Hot Mahogany by Stuart Woods. I don't know what the heck this novel is about. The book leaf says jack all about the plot except that Stone Barrington travels to New England.