The third audiobook in The Last Policeman trilogy may not be the place to start, but Peter Berkrot's dependable narration makes the going a lot easier. Detective Hank Palace is trying to find his lost sister before an asteroid hits and destroys Earth. He and his sidekick, Cortez, head for a rural police station, but unexpectedly there’s another murder to solve. Berkrot excels at portraying Palace's insightful thinking as well as the dry humor that courses through the book. He's adept at portraying the Amish man who brings peace to Hank on what is supposed to be the final day. This audio is compelling enough to inspire listeners to backtrack to Berkrot’s performances of Winters's previous offerings. A.L.H. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
Tomorrow Tommy Wallach’s We All Looked Up will make impact in bookstores everywhere, crashing onto shelves in an epic explosion. Well. Okay, it won’t actually do that. But when you’re talking about a novel that features an asteroid hurtling toward the planet, it’s hard to resist comparing it to a speedy chunk of space rock.
In this roundup of July’s most exciting sci-fi and fantasy titles, you’ll discover adventures that will take you pretty much anywhere you want to go, from inside the bowels of a quantum computer, to a postapocalyptic survivalist community, to a world facing extinction, and even…a magical HR department? (Like I said, anywhere.) Here are your […]