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In Baltimore a young woman flees an accident and when she's apprehended, she stonewalls police about herself except to reveal that she is one of the Bethany sisters, who disappeared thirty years before. The young woman has a flat affect, and Linda Emond characterizes her tonelessly as she makes one evasion after another about the present while claiming decades of abuse and the... Read More

This title shares a similarity of subject matter with THE DA VINCI CODE--the possibility of a Gospel written by Christ's wife and apostle, Mary Magdalene. But THE EXPECTED ONE takes a different approach. As read by Linda Emond, this story of a Magdalene descendant, writer Maureen Paschal, is certainly a spiritual quest. But it deals with the inner lives of the characters rather... Read More

A mysterious stranger in the company of the devil comes to the mountain village of Viscos with 11 bars of gold and a Faustian bargain for the entire town. He confides to Chantal Prym, the local bartender, the particulars about his murderous offer, intended in his eyes to crystallize the struggle between good and evil. Coelho's parable (first published in Europe in 1992) poses a... Read More

Linda Emond does a beautiful Southern accent, even if it sounds more genteel than ghetto. Baltimore P.I. Tess Monaghan's boyfriend, Crow, is on the run with a homeless black teenaged boy he's befriended. Emond is a little wide of the mark on Lloyd, and on some of Maryland cracker types they meet. But this does nothing to slow down the expertly plotted action as Tess tries to... Read More

Lydia Hoffman opens a knitting shop where she also holds knitting classes. Participants include Eloise, a retired librarian, Courtney, a lonely teenager, and Bethanne, a single mother. Narrator Linda Emond imbues this audio with a sense of realism as her carefully modulated pitch changes reflect the various characters and their range of emotions. Emond provides each character... Read More

With too many threads creating an uneven tapestry, Shreve's latest lacks the vitality of her previous novels. Linda Emond's performance is adequate, but with so many subplots to keep straight it's easy for the listener to get lost. Musical segues aid transitions as we are bounced from an inn in the Berkshire Mountains in December of 2001, back to 1974, when a classmate drowned... Read More

Three high school friends meet in the school's bathroom. One of them has a gun. In moments, one girl is killed instantly, one is fatally wounded, and the third is shot in the foot. What caused this tragedy? Who did the shooting? Laura Lippman enters the girls' minds, revealing their families, their social standings, and their humanity through deftly handled flashbacks. Linda... Read More

Taylor Halstead is abused by Gordon Mallory, her cousin's boyfriend; later that evening, after Taylor leaves, Mallory's yacht explodes, killing all the passengers. When Gordon's identical twin, Jonathan, becomes infatuated with Taylor, she thinks he's stalking her. Enter Reed Weston, who becomes Taylor's lover and is Mallory's attorney, and nothing goes right after that. Linda... Read More

Julia, a 40-year-old wife and mother, survives a boating incident that claims nine other lives. As the police investigate the accident, she begins to question what really happened. Narrator Linda Emond depicts Julia's search for meaning with tones of angst and suppressed anger that change to notes of confidence as Julia comes into her own. Noah, another survivor, becomes a... Read More

Why would Natalie Rubin take her three children and run away from her supposedly happy marriage to a rich furrier? The deserted husband hires sleuth Tess Monaghan to find out. What follows is a search involving, among others, the Snoop Sisters, online female PIs. Linda Emond's unhurried pace allows listeners to absorb the details of a well-thought-out plot, even in abridged... Read More

Narrator Linda Emond portrays four women, from a Goth to a reluctant grandmother, who become unlikely friends in a knitting class. Emond develops a sense of urgency through timing and expert vocal nuance as reoccurring illness and miscarriage, divorce and betrayal rather predictably visit the characters. Clearly capturing each woman as she supports the others and searches for... Read More

This biography of Theodore Roosevelt's family won the 1982 National Book Award for a good reason--it's involving, informative, and entertaining. The book covers a considerable period of time in broad brush, with the central focus being seventeen years (ages 10 to 27) in the life of the young Theodore, known as Teddy. Edward Herrmann offers a professional, nuanced,... Read More

Blending a sense of youth, mystery, and suspense, narrator Linda Emond portrays the character of Casey Ellis with clarity and warmth. She draws the listener into Casey's story with spellbinding tones of empathy for the young woman, whose mother is in a coma and whose father she's never met. To emulate him, Casey follows her father's career path of psychology, hoping to... Read More

John O'Rourke's life has been in near chaos since his wife's sudden death. While acting as defense attorney in a notorious serial murder case, he searches for a competent nanny for his two children. Kate Harris arrives, seeking answers about her sister's disappearance. They join forces to find answers that place them both in danger. Linda Emond gives depth to each character... Read More

Listeners, prepare to be surprised by this first novel by Mary Higgins Clark. The author known for her mysteries and contemporary characters created this historical portrait of George and Martha Washington. Linda Emond handles the warm, romantic story with grace and skill. She has a velvety voice that commands attention in an undemanding way. Emond gives an easy charm to the... Read More

Diamant's second novel focuses on Kathleen, a near-60-year-old librarian living in a small town in Massachusetts. After she's diagnosed with breast cancer, the treatments and stress begin to cloud her thinking, values, relationships, and her faith. Linda Emond depicts an intelligent woman on the verge of a major life change desperately attempting to keep it together. Her... Read More

Diamant's second novel focuses on Kathleen, a near-60-year-old librarian living in a small town in Massachusetts. After she's diagnosed with breast cancer, the treatments and stress begin to cloud her thinking, values, relationships, and her faith. Linda Emond depicts an intelligent woman on the verge of a major life change desperately attempting to keep it together. Her... Read More

In a fabulous production of a groundbreaking book, the author shares his personal reflections on living with a fatal neurological disease. It's a grueling process--being diagnosed, dealing with others' reactions, and feeling what you feel when a failing memory makes the symbols and connections of ordinary life unavailable for use. The author's observations and reactions, read... Read More

An unusual collaboration, Candyland is written by two men who are the same person. Evan Hunter writes the first half, read in this abridgment by Mark Blum, as a straight novel about a sex-obsessed architect on business in New York. The second half is a police procedural written by Hunter’s alter ego, Ed McBain, and read by Linda Emond. The two stories intersect as Benjamin... Read More

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