BLAMELESS

Mary, a divorced school-bus driver, is the key witness to a child's death, which has shaken her up, but she can still play amateur baseball, during a game of which she develops a yen for a player on the other team, who turns out to be father to one of her riders, though not a rider in her old Mercury, but when she was six . . . . What difference does any of this make when Carrington McDuffie serves it up with such lifeless melancholy that the audio becomes unremittingly dreary? Y.R. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine [Published: APR/MAY 01]