OCEAN CITY LOWDOWN Jamie August

Narrator Izolda Trakhtenberg's spirited delivery adds to the fun as listeners meet Jamie August, who divides her time between working at her uncle's super cheap beach rentals and writing for the free "Ocean City Weekly Breeze." In addition to portraying young, risk-taking Jamie, Trakhtenberg is engaging as Tammy, a feisty librarian who is Jamie's friend. Tammy's research skills help when Jamie becomes suspicious of a luxury building project. The seedy depiction of an empty resort town will make listeners feel the chill of walking the boardwalk in winter. The action escalates when Jamie stumbles onto what's really going on with the town's sudden real estate boom. S.G.B. © AudioFile 2015, Portland, Maine [Published: JANUARY 2015]