BLOOD MEMORY

Joyce Bean has a winsome feminine voice; what's more, her male characters, unlike those of most female readers, actually sound like men. This gives more differentiation to the character of Cat Ferry, a 31-year-old forensic dentist who is asked to help find a serial killer who leaves bite marks on his victims' bodies. Cat is a woman with issues. Haunted by the shooting death of her own father twenty-three years earlier, Cat is an alcoholic who is pregnant by a cop she works with. How she tracks the killer and solves the mysteries of her own past make this engrossing tale one of the author's best. And it's made even better by Bean's slick delivery. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine [Published: JUNE/JULY 05]