Jonathan Lowe has published articles and stories in over 35 magazines while living in Greenville, South Carolina and Tucson, Arizona. Several of his one-act dramas have been produced for radio, stage, or anthology, and a short film "Ghostly Mozart" was produced by the Warehouse Theatre for the Greenville Symphony. In addition, he has served as audiobook reviewer for Cracker Barrel Old Country Stores and XM Satellite radio, with reviews in Land Line, Truckers News, Audiofile, PostalMag.com and MyShelf.com. With the popular blog Audiobooks Today, he is a judge in the annual Audie awards, and has won writing awards from the S.C. Arts Commission, Roger C. Peace Foundation, and Writer's Digest. His novels are Postmarked for Death, Awakening Storm, The Methuselah Gene, The Instant Celebrity, and The Miraculous Plot of Leiter & Lott.
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Narrators Barbara Rosenblat and Lorna Raver at the Audie Awards.
"Sublime" --Foreword Magazine
"A class performance, powerful and accomplished...mystery at its best" --Clive Cussler
"A page turner. Dropping a letter in the mailbox will never be the same" --John Lutz
(Earphones Award winner on audio, read by Frank Muller)
“A true thriller. . . a compelling story with an unexpected ending.”
—Audiobook Cafe
"Not since Tess Gerritsen's "Gravity" have I been so impressed with a book" --John Sciarra
"Personable and entertaining...fast paced and successfully unpredictable" --Tucson Weekly
"A terrific medical thriller" --Midwest Book Reviews
"Very cool. Visual and unpredictable. Not typical at all. Recommend for thriller and mystery lovers." --from iTunes
"Intriguing story (with) mind expanding possibilities" --Booklist
"This audiobook was excellent. Author Jonathan Lowe did an outstanding job, Kristoffer Tabori was brilliant! Highly recommended." --from Amazon
"You have to grin when you hear Johnstone explain how Rosen won the lottery—with his first ticket purchase ever. Johnstone is played to a tee by actor Kristoffer Tabori.” --Audiofile magazine
"Very enjoyable, lots of twists and turns...would make a great film" --Kevin Reem, formerly with Disney
"Break out the popcorn, and invite your friends!" --Audiobook Cafe
"The compelling, deeply conflicted characters, fast action, and a plot unlike any other make this a very entertaining story." --My Shelf
"The first fiction based on Eckhart Tolle's writing. Recommended." --Soul's Code
"Outstanding!" --from iTunes
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POSTMARKED FOR DEATH. A disturbed postal clerk with a grudge against illegal immigrants and welfare mothers chains a patsy in an abandoned Titan missile base, and mails letter bombs while he continues to work. . .and while police look for the wrong man. Originally in hardcover, and an award winner on audio. "A class performance, powerful and accomplished...mystery at its best." --Clive Cussler (Kindle, Nook, iPad, Paperback)
AWAKENING STORM. A young man is haunted by dreams of hell, and sets out to confront the now greedy televangelist who influenced them at his beach house during a hurricane party. Audiobook narrated by Barrett Whitener for Blackstone Audio. "A true thriller, personable and entertaining, and with an unpredictable ending." --Audiobook Cafe (Mp3 CD or download)
THE METHUSELAH GENE. A research chemist is set up to take the fall by an unknown agency secretly testing a longevity drug on a small town in Iowa. Originally in hardcover. Bonus opening chapters HERE. "A terrific medical thriller. Fans will appreciate this fine look at what can go wrong when amoral individuals use human guinea pigs in the name of science." --Midwest Book Review (Kindle, Nook, iPad, Audiobook)
THE INSTANT CELEBRITY. An accountant wins the first Billion dollar Powerball jackpot and develops a scheme to hold onto his instant celebrity status longer than just 15 minutes by first disappearing, financing a coup against a corrupt Caribbean island dictator, and then re-emerging a hero. Also on audio as FAME ISLAND, narrated by Emmy winning actor Kristoffer Tabori and directed by Grammy winner Yuri Rasovsky. "Very enjoyable, lots of twists and turns, would make a great film." --Kevin Reem, indy film producer, formerly with Disney. (Kindle, Nook, iPad, Audiobook)
THE MIRACULOUS PLOT OF LEITER & LOTT. A homeless man and a TV reporter share a most intriguing conversation in a Tucson park...a conversation so real to Valerie that she champions David's innocence, and seeks to find him again before police do, when a man fitting David's description is sought for the kidnapping of a city councilman's daughter. Based on The Power of Now. "Unique and wonder filled." --Soul's Code (Kindle, Nook, iPad, Audiobook)
WHO MOVED MY TV? Two sewer rats invade a bachelor's house and develop an "intelligence relationship" with him as he becomes dumber watching the boob tube. They pretend to be his deceased ex wife in order to keep being fed. Novella on the theme of TV addiction. (Kindle, Nook, iPad, Audiobook)
OSCAR'S HIJACK. Three mystery stories connected by a fourth involving Academy Awards hijacked by an escaped convict. Full cast and sound audiobook from Blackstone. "An entertaining hybrid, hope to hear more like it!" --Audiofile (CD or Download)
THE UMPIRE HAS NO CLOTHES. Sports satire book in the form of a fictional memoir, with anecdotes, jokes, stories, and a "Lossary of Terms." Ebook from Crossroad Press, MARCH 27, 2013. (Kindle, Nook, iPad)
