An MPM Celebration

Listening: Fire and Rain When talented young biographer Michael Collins is selected to write the biography of famous modern day Renaissance man and recluse Gordon Randolph, he only thinks of it as a fantastic opportunity. But it takes only one visit to the great man's home to sense something amiss--Gordon is frantic with worry about his beloved wife Linda, whose beauty and brilliance seems to be vanishing under the influence of heavy drinking and terrified hallucinations of a black dog. Yet the further Mike digs, the more Gordon's notorious charm seems to be a facade for something dark that reaches out and destroys those around him... Spoilers Below

Listening: Respect When cousins Harriet and Ada lose their grandmother, their care is given over to a distant cousin they've never met--the reclusive Mr. Wolfson. Chained to a wheelchair, "Wolf", as he urges his charges to call him, lives in an isolated manor in Yorkshire, with two wolfish dogs as his only real companions. He is nevertheless a man of charm and intelligence, his son Julian artistic and mild, and the two women soon come to think of Abbey Manor as home. But the return of Wolf's large and virile son Francis from Edinburgh disturbs the tranquility, and as ominous incidents mount, Harriet is forced to wonder if there is some truth in the local legends that the family are a pack of monsters--skinchangers who turn into wolves to stalk the moors on the full moon. Or is their evil far more practical...and more terrible? Spoilers Below

Listening: Time in a Bottle After Meg Rittenhouse has an accident that leaves her experiencing hallucinations, a wealthy distant cousin offers her a recuperative stay at her old Pennsylvanian house, Trail's End. At first, it seems like an excellent idea--caretaker, would-be writer and former childhood nemesis Andy Brenner is plenty of company, and the task of sorting the attic and redecorating the house keep Meg distracted. But it seems like her hallucinations are getting worse, not better, as she sees images of a family from a different time over and over again...unless the people she's seeing aren't hallucinations at all, but rather images from the past. If that's true, is the ugly fate they're racing towards about to find its way out of the past and into the present? Spoilers Below

Listening: Bad Moon Rising Mysterious Englishman Peter Stewart has arrived in Middleburg, Maryland to stalk the footsteps of the reclusive millionaire, folklorist Kate More. His intentions are as mysterious as his antecedents, but the further he probes, the more the simmering tensions under the smooth surface of the town become apparent. The racial divides that leave the local African-American population quiet and embittered...the previous owner of the More mansion who claimed to be a warlock and whose legacy casts a long shadow...and the accidental death of the charming young man who was her lover that seems to haunt Kate's worst nightmares... Spoilers Below

Listening: Hooked on A Feeling Jake Kirby #2 Just like I'm hooked on you, Jake. Jake Kirby, academic librarian currently on holiday in England, gets dragged by a friend to a traditional country house where an amateur historian is holding a conference on Richard III before purportedly revealing a long-lost document that will reveal the maligned king's innocence. Skeptical, Jake nonetheless soon finds herself pulled into the undercurrents of the group, in which all the old fifteenth century conflicts seem reborn, if on a milder scale. As someone starts playing nasty pranks that reenact famous violent murders of that century, she starts sprinting for a solution before the pranks turn deadly.