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Successful author David Etheridge visits his hometown, where twenty years earlier a beautiful coed was murdered after they had attended a party. David was a suspect in the murder but had not been charged. Now death strikes again—at the same house where the party occurred. This time David is charged with both murders, and Defense Attorney Barbara Holloway must solve both cases... Read More

This production is an intriguing experience in poetry and music that creates an unusual and agreeable collage of word songs. Carrington MacDuffie unselfconsciously performs her own works on observing consciousness. Her silky voice weaves in and out of the acoustic, electronic, and nature sounds provided by Near the Border. The listening experience is peaceful, meditative, and... Read More

Classical Jewish teachings can succeed in helping families when modern psychology falls short. As child psychologist Wendy Mogel describes her path to this discovery, Carrington MacDuffie narrates with sincerity and intent. Real-life anecdotes from Dr. Mogel's practice, her lecture circuit, and her own parenting are illuminated through Talmudic teachings, traditional practices,... Read More

When March Monroe's daughter, Olivia, goes off to college, March decides it’s the perfect opportunity to finish her own much delayed degree. As if being a middle-aged coed isn't daunting enough, March's life becomes even more complicated when she discovers that she and Olivia have both signed up for the same internship at a local radio station. Add to the mix a precocious... Read More

Celia marries into the publishing house of Lytton and soon shows that she's a brilliant businesswoman in a time when women were meant to stay home and tend the children. Twenty years in Celia's life, before and after WWI, are covered, with narrator Carrington MacDuffie doing a terrific job, crossing class and gender lines with ease, never striking a false note. MacDuffie's... Read More

Featuring an international and interfamilial jewel heist, Adler's novel pulls at various plot strands simultaneously. Although the adventures of the main character, who is Chinese, are compelling and are told with passion by narrator Carrington MacDuffie, the other story line, set in Paris and composed of lackluster exposition, comes across as flat. The wrangle over an ancient... Read More

Carrington MacDuffie’s perfect once-upon-a-time voice fits this fairy-tale love story and adventure. Her narration acknowledges that this is a story escaping its genre boundaries as she captures its humor and satire. Both book and performance succeed because of the story’s unique characterizations. Christian lives in the forest with Ed, his stepfather, a troll who can’t get... Read More

In the ninth Barbara Holloway suspense, DA Holloway retreats to a remote coastal cabin to avoid making a life-altering decision. There she encounters a seriously injured woman and her small son. When she goes for help, the two disappear. Carrington MacDuffie turns in a splendid performance as Holloway and the missing woman and child, Elizabeth and Jason Kurtz, who are on the... Read More

Seven-year-old Calliope "Calley" Dakin opens the story with a horrific description of how two women tortured and murdered her father. Afterwards, she is taken by her emotionally abusive mother, Roberta Ann, to Pensacola, where her talent for speaking to the dead comes to the fore. Carrington MacDuffie has her work cut out for her as the story switches abruptly from the past to... Read More

From Carrington MacDuffie's first words, spoken in the tone of a preppy sorority girl, listeners are located squarely in Middle America. What's more, it's not as boring as one might expect. The combination of writer and narrator sucks us in. The story itself makes quick shifts back and forth over a twenty-year time span in which the protagonist, Diana, grows from an adolescent... Read More

"The Chrysalis," a painting by the fictional seventeenth-century Dutch painter Johannes Miereveld, unites the multiple story lines of Terrell's debut novel. The painting commemorates Miereveld's love for Amalia, the beautiful daughter of a government official. In this performance Carrington MacDuffie grabs listeners by the ears and doesn't let go. MacDuffie navigates the... Read More

Kate Jacobs's novel about the communal aspects of knitting celebrates the craft, which is finding renewed life in a new generation. Georgia Walker is a single mother who runs yarn shop in uptown New York City. Several of her customers come together to bond in a weekly night of knitting, noshing, and conversation. Walker’s 12-year-old daughter, Dakota, a budding culinary... Read More

Women tend to get short shrift in the Bible. Their mention is only " brief and elliptical?" according to Professor Vanessa Ochs. Many women appear as provocateurs, seductresses, and agitators, such as Jezebel. But Ochs shows that there are also characters and stories that can serve modern women as role models and sources of inspiration. Ochs makes a deep exploration of values... Read More

Jewelry designer Laurel Swann receives a package containing a Fabergé egg from her estranged father. An assortment of villains wants the egg as well, and Laurel must rely on her father's nemesis, Cruz Rowan, to keep her safe. Action alternates with romantic dialogue as Laurel, predictably, falls for Cruz. Carington MacDuffie handles this as well as possible, softening her... Read More

Bestselling suspense authors Jonathan and Faye Kellerman team up for a pair of mysteries whose theme is capital cities. MY SISTER'S KEEPER moves between Berkeley and Sacramento, California, and involves the murder of a progressive state representative. The story focuses primarily on female figures, so Carrington MacDuffie does the reading. The other story, MUSIC CITY BREAKDOWN,... Read More

On assignment in France, Alex Simons, a fashion writer for a British weekly who organizes her clothes so that she never wears different designers at the same time, ends up front-page news on the tabloids after a couturier runway collision. Then when cornered by paparazzi, she meets Nick Snow. Sparks fly as Alex and Nick make their way in the fashion world. Carrington MacDuffie... Read More

The lives being lived cheek by jowl in a luxury Park Avenue apartment building make for a delicious comedy of manners in these artful linked stories. Carrington MacDuffie does an enchanting Angelina Samoza, the Nicaraguan socialite with only slightly crossed eyes who has a slew of Guatamalan illegals living in her maid’s room. MacDuffie’s perfect Italian accent, quite distinct... Read More

Reporter Susan Michaels has fallen on hard times and is working the UFO/alien abduction beat in Seattle when she adopts a cat that draws her into the world of shape-shifters, dark hunters, vampires, and ancient feuds. It doesn't take long for her to throw herself into the middle of it all. As is typical of the genre, romance and steamy sex are in abundance. Carrington MacDuffie... Read More

Anna Fields and Carrington MacDuffie capture the rapport, love, frustrations, and gentle teasing between mother and daughter as they read this memoir by Perri Klass and her mother, Sheila Solomon Klass. The two women share their very different perspectives on each other, housework, child-rearing, and money, even as they travel the world and reflect on life with Sheila’s late... Read More

Carrington MacDuffie's name on any audiobook guarantees a skilled, sophisticated performance, and Adler's novel is a prime example of MacDuffie's expertise. She glides from one character to the next, providing distinct yet believable accents and voices for each. The novel itself, a glossy whodunit set against a variety of lavish backdrops, is a frothy and entertaining treat.... Read More

Multiple narrators bring a variety of delivery, vocal tone, and accents to seven short stories set in southern Appalachian locales. The narration is clear, often slightly accented, with easily distinguishable characters. Soft, sometimes melancholy, jazz music serves as breaks between stories. The last story, about a mystery writer and a fan, has two narrators and is... Read More

Holly Barker, ex-M.P. and more recently small town police chief, moves up with recruitment by the CIA. Her training moves fast; in fact, she's put into the field to help catch an ex-Agency rogue terrorist before her Virginia course is complete. Carrington MacDuffie is a good storyteller, and she easily steps into Barker's persona, capturing her intuitive style and her appealing... Read More

This title, by the author of SEX AND THE CITY, is another in the genre of "women who have it all and must struggle to keep it." The plot follows the lives of three successful women, each tops in her respective field of business, fashion, or show business but forced to make significant changes in her life. Carrington MacDuffie offers a crisp, practiced performance. Her use of... Read More

In this third installment of adventures of "women of a certain age," Thayer takes us on a tour of a year, from Christmas to Christmas. Shirley's Spa is growing in popularity, and the five friends continue their sharing, support, and humor. Carrington MacDuffie manages to give each of the five women a clear voice, using accent, tone, and energy to create unique personalities.... Read More

As this novel opens, narrator Lamour Harrington is at a crossroads. Her personal life, it seems, lies dormant while her professional life as a landscape architect is all about growth. Now is the time for her to close that gap and move forward from childhood memories and recent personal loss. Carrington MacDuffie offers a capable reading of an audiobook lush with description.... Read More