The Last Werewolf
by Glen Duncan (Knopf, 2011); audiobook read by Robin Sachs (Random House, 2011)
Jacob Marlowe is the last of his kind, world-weary and prone to introspection, accepting of death. With Duncan’s intelligent literary approach, the werewolf genre at last grows up and in this one fell swoop shows it can be truly, viscerally, exquisitely horrifying.