June is Audiobook Month
Feel the Magic!
Are you permanently in a cowboy state of mind? Check out the Great Classic Westerns audio anthology, with stories from some of the most well-known authors of the genre, including Zane Grey and Max Brand! With sixteen unabridged classic tales, you’ll have enough great listening to keep your ears busy till the cows come home…
Is there a cooler author name on the planet than Andromeda Romano-Lax? Not sure, but her new novel, The Detour, set in 1938 Italy and Munich features some very cool customers indeed. Enlarging on themes and questions about the role of art and the promise of love in wartime, this rich journey introduces young curator Ernst Vogler who is collecting the great art of Europe and bringing it to Germany for the Fuhrer. But then a simple three-day job to collect a famous statue, turns into a disaster. With nothing left to lose, the young German gives himself up to the Italian adventure, to the surprising love and inevitable losses along the way. This is a bittersweet novel about artistic obsession, misplaced idealism, detours, and second chances, played out along the beautiful back-roads of northern Italy on the eve of war.
If the summer heat is getting you down, plan an escape with Marcia Willett’s The Summer House. A simmering saga, the tale a pair of siblings who discover a terrible secret…
Matt’s mother kept all his childhood memories in a small box, amongst the many photos of Matt as a child. But something about those photos has always puzzled Matt. Is that really him? Why does he not remember those clothes and toys? And where, in the photos, is his sister Imogen? Imogen, meanwhile, is living with her husband and their baby in a rented cottage. Ever since her childhood she has loved the Summer House, a charming folly in the grounds of a beautiful and ancient house on Exmoor, and now they have the chance of buying it. But the Summer House provides the key to the strange and tragic secret which has affected Matt’s whole life.
Richard Stark’s legendary thief Parker’s got 99 problems, but two in particular are giving him a run for his money as he tries to pull off a heist at a rare coin convention in The Rare Coin Score. He’s got a creepy rookie who insists on “helping” him out and a classy widow that’s offering too much distraction—will he still make his cool two-mill score?
JGL loves audio!
Did you know MC Beaton, creator of the beloved Hamish Macbeth mystery series, also penned dozens of Regency romances as Marion Chesney? In this series debut, Lady Fortescue Steps Out, listeners will be introduced to the charming and merry world of Lady Fortescue and London’s newest hotel, The Poor Relation. Outlandish adventure and delightful romance await…
June is Audiobook Month and Audie-winning audiobook narrator Robert Fass is doing a video a day to celebrate the month. In his videos he interviews industry professionals giving you a peek inside the audiobook world.
Check out more of his videos, including his interviews with Johnny Heller and Dion Graham (I got to meet both of them at the Audies, it was great!).
How cute is that cover? No, really? If that’s not incentive enough to give this enchanting audio, Walking Back to Happiness, by Lucy Dillon a shot, I don’t know what is! This warm tale of a woman who heals from her broken heart by becoming the town’s unofficial pet-sitter—a job which makes her privy to the lives and secrets of everyone whose animals she’s caring for—will have you rolling over in delight too.
