ISOLATION WARD

This author's debut story of medical research turned sinister and murderous is expertly read by Christian Rummel. His female voices are as smooth as those of his males. Make that smooth, believable, and emotional in all the right places. He's so good, perhaps his acting career will take a back seat to a future in narration. Sign him up again, Random House. As for Spanogle, a Stanford medical student and former bioethics researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, he's working on a second medical thriller, GROWTH FACTOR. Growth and maturity are just what his characters and their dialogue need in his otherwise solid first effort. D.J.M. © AudioFile 2006, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG/ SEP 06]