New Reviews: Audio Theater

The sinister Weyland-Yutani corporation once again tries to capture and weaponize the aliens known as Xenomorphs. Three hundred years after the events of the previous stories, which inspired the Alien series of movies, the company tasks Alan Decker--Ellen Ripley's distant descendant--and a group of mercenaries with exploring excavated ruins on the newly terraformed LV-178,... Read More

Celebrated British character actor Brendan Coyle (DOWNTON ABBEY) plays it tough and vulnerable in this tight Audible Studios original drama. The story involves the collapsed career of County Kent police detective Joe Cassidy, who has solved one too many haunting serial murder cases. When an old friend, the owner of a world-renowned wildlife park, comes to Cassidy for help in... Read More

With her usual sly energy, quick wit, and sexy charm, narrator Claudia Christian once again portrays one of the galaxy's favorite detectives--Anne Manx. In this seventh stand-alone comic episode, Anne takes a tumble, starts seeing double, and ends up having to go to another planet and jump through an inordinate number of hoops to renew her P.I. license. Luckily, she has the... Read More

This compilation of five short stories features Jig the Goblin, who must survive ghosts, fire spiders, and treasures, to name a few of his adventures. Each action-punk story is imbued with killing and lots of tongue-in-cheek humor. Michael John Casey narrates many of the tales in a steady no-nonsense voice, while Marni Penning adopts a brisk pace and Scottish accent. The final... Read More

Colleen Delany narrates this complicated story of neo-Nazis, drug dealing, rape, and murder, set in Texas in 1944 and the present day. Fifth-generation Texas Ranger Caitlin Strong investigates mysterious deaths that lead back to Armand Fisker, who was marketing a bioweapon and was possibly descended from a Nazi prisoner. She's also involved with Cort Wesley Masters, who is her... Read More