Reviews by Sukey Howard
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So, you want to live forever? Want to find the "fountain of youth"? Just make sure that the fountain operators aren't offering a tainted elixir . . .
When Dr. Toby Harper, an ER doctor at a quiet suburban hospital, diagnoses a rare, deadly viral infection in two elderly patients, she won't stop until she finds the source -- and that leads her into dangerous territory. "Life Support," Tess Gerritsen's second best-selling medical mystery thriller, takes us through that territory at a pulse-pumping pace. Gerritsen, an internist, gets the medical details right, gives her characters depth and involves you in a moral dilemma that may become all too real. Performed by Megan Gallagher.
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A new, talented medical mystery practitioner, Kathy Reichs (a practicing FA in real life) is on the scene, too, and in her debut thriller, "Deja Dead," she presents Dr. Temperance Brennan, late of North Carolina, now Director of Forensic Anthropology for the province of Quebec. Tempe isn't content to simply do postmortems on the bones and burials that come her way; she wants to know more about the people she's called on to examine. So, when one decapitated, dismembered corpse turns up in a plastic garbage bag, and then another, she's determined to find the monster who did the deed. Therein lies the well-plotted action and the edge-of-your-seat suspense. I hope that we'll hear more from the Drs. Reichs and Brennan soon again.
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Mallory, a brash, beautiful, brilliant New York cop with a shadowy past, a scarred soul and a tendency toward semi-sociopathic behavior, deserted the force, her friends and the Big Apple at the end of Carol O'Connell's last stylish detective thriller. But fortunately for her fans, Mallory surfaces again in "Stone Angel." And much about Mallory surfaces too as she sets out to avenge her mother's ghastly death at the hands of a mob in the small Louisiana town she was born in and fled from when she was only six. I was totally caught up in this full-length audio, with its well-drawn characters, intriguing subplots and local color. Laurel Merlington reads unflaggingly for the entire 12 hours in a full range of accents and inflections.
Sukey Howard reports on spoken word audio each month. Don't miss her audio book reviews on CNN's "Sunday Morning."
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