IN A STRANGE CITY

In A Strange City
by Laura Lippman

Alright, this may be the last book I read or listen to of Laura Lippman. The woman reading it sounds as though she may have emphysema or soon to have it. Defiantly a smoker voice; the a low throaty resonance in her voice that the enunciation all sounds like a monotone blur. Now I don't know the entire theme or plot of the story attempting to understand her at the same time being disgusted by her voice. Strangely the last person I think who read for Laura Lippman's book about this same detective, the voice was like 20 years younger.
Basically, there is a person killed at the anniversary of something to do with Edger Allan Poe and some thieves of antiques or they think are old from Poe.
I do not know what the main reason for the theft and killing was, nor who all these people really were. Just contrived dribble.
Read by Barbara Rosenblat.

By A Spider's Thread
by Laura Lippman

I don't know where the title came from but this was certainly another provocative suspense mystery by her. The story was about an Orthodox Jewish man's missing wife who had been deceiving him for many years just waiting for her lover to be released from prison. Some the Jewish rules were wrong but the basic understandings were there. The man was a furrier with three children. His wife takes off with her lover and the kids almost ended up dead along with her husband. (Linda Emond, narrator)