Dead Center
David Rosenfelt, , read by Grover Gardner. . Listen & Live Audio, $29.95 (0pp) ISBN 978-1-59316-079-1
Even if Rosenfelt's novels about multimillionaire New Jersey defense attorney Andy Carpenter didn't hit all the right mystery novel notes, the intimacy of their hero's breezy, subjective, present-tense narration would make them ideal subjects for audio adaptation. Adding to the ear appeal of book five in the series is reader Gardner, an inspired match for the amusingly self-deprecating, sarcastic, animal-loving, freewheeling, wisecracking, wily lawyer. The inventive story finds Carpenter being lured by a recently lost love to the snow- and sausage-filled wilds of Wisconsin. There, accompanied by his faithful golden retriever, Tara, he reluctantly agrees to defend a 21-year-old local against overwhelming evidence that he savagely murdered two young women from a nearby hamlet inhabited exclusively by members of a religious cult. Using a voice and sensibility reminiscent of Nathan Lane (complete with verbal eye-rolls), Gardner smartly unfolds Rosenfelt's yarn, in which Carpenter is at his hilarious best—a Jersey boy out of his element in the frosty Midwest, motor-mouthing about having to put up with bone-chilling cold, unfamiliar food, a half-rekindled romance, an impossible defense and a possibly homicidal cult.
Reviewed on: 08/07/2006
Genre: Audio
Downloadable Audio - 978-1-59316-355-6
Hardcover - 320 pages - 978-0-89296-002-6
Mass Market Paperbound - 352 pages - 978-0-446-61451-1
Open Ebook - 159 pages - 978-1-59995-662-6
Open Ebook - 1 pages - 978-0-446-55484-8
Pre-Recorded Audio Player - 978-1-61637-421-1
