THE LAST GOODBYE

Novelist Reed Arvin's second bestselling effort follows the exploits of bottom-feeding Atlanta attorney Jack Hammond as he hobnobs with bluebloods backstage at the opera and gets down and dirty with denizens of the toughest housing project in the South. Actor Dylan Baker once again proves both agile and effective in rendering the colorfully drawn characters. What happens when an Alabama-born country music fan falls in love with a married diva with a shady background? Listeners might think there's too much stretch for the elastic in this high-tech murder mystery, but they would be mistaken. R.O. (c) AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/ SEP 04]