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A small notice in a Sydney shipping publication in 1842 hinted of a bigger story: A Massachusetts-based whaling ship, the SHARON, was putting into port due to desertions and the murder of its captain. Parts of the story were publicized at the time, but other pieces remained secret for years. Joan Druett decided to take a closer look at events that may have inspired Herman... Read More
"Flopsy," "Mopsy," and "Cotton-tail" are code names for a Russian family defecting to the United States via Operation Beatrix. Yuri Andropov, KGB chairman, alias Flopsy, holds information that will bring down leaders and nations once he and his family are safe in the West. The CIA eagerly awaits word that the rabbits have changed hutches after the CIA stages their deaths in a... Read More
Anita Shreve returns to New England for another look into the lives of men and women in the early twentieth century. Nicholas Van Tassel is writing his memoir of a life centered around Etna Bliss, a woman whose love remained elusive even after their marriage many years earlier. Dennis Boutsikaris is masterful as the voice of Professor Van Tassel, portraying the character as he... Read More
Public Defender Clay Carter arrives in court just in time to receive another hopeless murder case. His bad luck and dead-end career disappear as he stumbles upon evidence that thrusts him into the opulent world of class-action lawsuits. Clay's initial success earns him the title "King of Torts." Quickly, the glamour fades for both the character and the listener. Despite... Read More
When Peter Decker's half-brother, Jonathan, calls with the news that his brother-in-law has been murdered and his niece is missing, everything starts to go wrong. Rina and Peter Decker travel to New York City to solve these mysteries. Dennis Boutsikaris twists and weaves through a world of religious Jews and not-so-honest New Yorkers, never skipping a beat. With a practiced... Read More
"Commercial aircraft . . . slamming into crowded, unprotected office buildings. How can we have come to this?" wonders Caleb Carr. Known for his bestselling novels, Carr brings his training as a historian to bear in this book-length essay. Terrorism--the slaughter of civilians in order to demoralize the enemy--is an ancient trick, he writes. And yet it has never ever worked.... Read More
Grisham's novel is a complete departure from his usual courtroom style. The story unfolds with whimsical humor as Dennis Boutsikaris narrates in an easy-to-listen-to voice. Boutsikaris depicts the Kranks with light humor, chagrin, and guilt, as neighbors blame them for losing the "best decorated street" award. When their daughter decides to return home from Peru as a surprise,... Read More
By keeping her past secret, and her emotions at a distance, and focusing on her work, surgeon Catherine Cordell has recovered from an ordeal in which she was almost murdered by one of her medical residents. When victims killed through almost identical means appear (and Catherine receives emails from the apparent killer), the investigation takes over her life--even though she... Read More
When the synagogue of LAPD Lt. Peter Decker and wife Rina Lazarus is vandalized, Decker's investigation and Lazarus's research uncover white supremacists, family secrets, murder, and therapists who exploit the alienated children of the wealthy. Dennis Boutsikaris fails to do justice to Kellerman's newest Decker/Lazarus book. He repeatedly mispronounces Hebrew and Yiddish works... Read More
The menacing musical interlude that opens this book appropriately foreshadows what is to come. In the voice of the classic private eye, Dennis Boutsikaris keenly reveals the dark world of crime in cyberspace and its inhabitants. Social engineering is the focus of the story, and Boutsikaris is astute to the twists and turns of the antagonist and his machine world, which make... Read More
For a 1998 American kayaking team, the Tsangpo River, deep in Tibet, was the ultimate white-water challenge, requiring years of research, training, and fund-raising. For Dennis Boutsikaris, the text has a challenge of its own--how to make a third-person narrative full of technical information (and no maps or pictures) immediate and engaging. He succeeds with a well-paced and... Read More
Dennis Boutsikaris presents a chilling performance of this well-written thriller about a jaded lawyer locked in a murderous battle of wits with a psychotic psychiatrist. Boutsikaris shades each character's voice just enough to create variety without drawing attention to his technique. Although the narrative is substantially abridged, this package provides a satisfying listening... Read More
Few books are given the tender loving care that Dennis Boutsikaris gives Underworld. And this book needs it. Its ambition is to explore the American sensibility during the Cold War. DeLillo is a fine, absorbing writer and complex thinker who seeks a thread uniting everything in our culture from our most superficial symbols and pastimes to our most desperate needs. Few readers... Read More
An audio presentation of a complex murder mystery can be deceptively challenging. Inadmissable Evidence deals with the retrial of an old murder case and with a prosecutor's dangerous involvement in the trial. In this production, there are many characters, and much of the dialogue takes place in a courtroom; keeping track of things can prove difficult. Through the many... Read More
The bludgeoned body of a teenaged girl catapults Ben and Carolyn Reiser into a battle to save their son, and their life. This is a psychological mystery which pits defense of one's family against defense of one's principles. Nelligan's voice and articulation as Carolyn are wonderful. Boutsikaris, as Ben, makes excellent choices as well. Thomas, as the child Judith, is good and... Read More
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