October 2006--Volume IV, Issue 10 Welcome to The Heard Word! Check here for reviews of audiobooks for adults, young adults, and children, as well as forthcoming titles. Featured Publishers Listener's Advisory Each month, we feature handy selection lists that help you identify forthcoming audio titles in a variety of subjects and formats. For the ultimate in convenience, please open ipage®. If your library would like a free subscription to ipage Basic, please e-mail ics.techsupport@ingrambook.com. • November Fiction • November Nonfiction • November Audiobooks on MP3 Auditor's Pick: Field of Darkness Field of Darkness By Cornelia Read Read By Hillary Huber Blackstone Audio Unabridged on CDs Cornelia Read's debut, Field of Darkness, embodies the best in mystery/suspense literature. It is an engrossing narrative filled with moments of tension and terror. It has characters you love and characters you love to hate. And it contains a unique storyline that juxtaposes the lurid details of horrific crimes with lyrical references to the macabre stories of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christan Andersen. The novel's protagonist, Madeline Dare, was born into a WASP-y New York blueblood dysfunctional family. As an adult she's chosen to reject her family's exclusionary tendencies: she works writing fluff pieces at her local paper in industrial Syracuse where she lives with her working class husband Dean. One day, while visiting with his family, one of Dean's relatives gives Madeline a pair of dog tags that was found in a local field. The field was the site of one of the area's most gruesome and memorable murders. Two young women were found in the field, lying side by side, their throats slit down to the bone. The bodies were obviously posed after death, and each woman wore a crown of roses on her head. What Madeline finds alarming, however, is not that the dog tags are a relic from a past crime scene, but that they belong to her favorite cousin. With this secret knowledge, Madeline is determined to research the crime in order to find out the truth about her cousin and his possible involvement before she takes the dog tags to the police. Her job at the paper gives her access to some interesting photographs from the crime scene; soon her appetite is whetted, and she's on the hunt for more clues. What she soon finds, however, is more dead bodies and more unanswered questions. Before long, it becomes clear that Madeline may have to confront her biggest fears if she wants to truly find out what happened to the murdered girls. Cornelia Read's writing is taut, and Hillary Huber's reading keeps the listener enthralled from the first sentence. With each chapter, the listener is drawn further into Field of Darkness, and the twists and turns at every corner make it hard to figure out who the true criminal really is. Blackstone Audio's fine production keeps the listener on the edge, hanging on until the very end. --Linda Arrington Lusk, Product Marketing Manager Contact Us | Privacy Policy | About Further Developments | Ingram Library Services | ipage.ingrambook.com © Copyright 2006, Ingram Library Services, Inc. All Rights Reserved.