Noir

Noir / Christopher Moore, read by Johnny Heller, 339 pgs.

Sammy Tiffin tends bar in San Francisco after WWII.  He falls for a woman (Stilton, like the cheese) who comes in one afternoon and they get entangled in a couple of situations that are a little crazy.  Sammy is dealing in China town for a poisonous snake that will assist the sexual prowess of elderly men, an Air Force general is looking for some "good girls" for a fun night with rich men and various government agencies are involved with the cover-up of a UFO crash. Sammy and Stilton are somehow involved with all these things and end up no a real adventure that ends as you hope it would...happily ever after (maybe?).  Full of quirky characters, there is lots of action and funny one liners.  A fun audiobook.

The Rosie Project / Graeme Simsion 295 pp.

I doubt I have anything to add to Linda and Christa's favorable reviews, except to echo Christa's point that while the reader may be able to see the ending coming from afar, it won't matter - all the fun is in getting there.  A sweet, funny and authentic story about a man who looks for romance with a scientific survey and finds exactly the wrong woman.