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I Lucked Out …

… in the choice of narrator for the Chet and Bernie series audio versions.

 

Jim Frangione

What can I say about Jim Frangione, the brilliant and subtle narrator of the audio versions of the Chet and Bernie books? There! Maybe I’ve said it! Here’s the cover art for the audio version of Bark To The Future, coming 8/9 but now available for pre-order.

Audio – Bark To The Future

Jim Frangione, wonderful narrator of the audio versions of the Chet and Bernie mystery series – which can be read in any order! – recorded Bark To The Future (pub date 8/9) last week. He seems to have liked it! I’ll post the date when it becomes preorderable when I find out. (Meanwhile preorders for the hardcover and digital versions can happen this very minute!).

Beginnings

On Sundays we do beginnings – all the Peter Abrahams novels including those written under the Spencer Quinn moniker™ As you may know, the Chet and Bernie series can-be-read-in-any-order™. Same thing applies to the C&B short stories, all available digitally and also audio (read by the great Jim Frangione) from the usual sources. Here’s the start of Tail of Vengeance, the short story about the notorious Teitelbaum divorce.

“I think my boyfriend is cheating on me.”

We should have walked away at that very moment, me and Bernie, or better yet run, our tails between our legs. Not so easy in Bernie’s case, since, maybe like you, he’s stuck with living a tailless life, poor guy. Imagine that! Actually, I can’t. The good news is that I’ve got enough tail for two, a strong, bushy, pleasing-to-the-eye tail that even has a mind of its own. Sometimes it wags me! Or just about. I’m not so easy to wag, being a hundred-plus pounder, and strong for my size, Bernie says. And not just Bernie: ask some of the perps up at Northern State Correctional, although they may not have time for chitchat, what with being so busy breaking rocks in the hot sun. The point is we’ve taken down lots of perps here at the Little Detective Agency. Bernie’s last name is Little. I’m Chet, pure and simple.