Recent mend me an audible book please

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I like UK crime fiction normally, but I’m open to something new.

ideally something that can keep me engrossed in a four hour flight.

I enjoyed The Last Party by Clare MacIntosh on audiobook. I also liked her book Hostage but that one does involve a plane being hijacked so maybe not great on a flight!

I'm thoroughly enjoying Jodi Taylor books at the moment.

Huge need to suspend disbelief. To me seem like 'Alice in Wonderland' meets 'Magic Faraway Tree'.

Don't have to concentrate too hard and genuinely giggle worthy at times

(Genuinely not my usual genre but loving them)

Lisa Jewell - The Family upstairs and the Family remains

My favourite is Sorry and Bliss..Meg Mason
Not from your favourite genre but a fabulous listen.. Check it out. I nearly listened to it all in one sitting

Have you listened to the Strike books? (R Galbraith)
They are well narrated (apart from the brief Glaswegian accent).

Angela Marsons - Detective Kim Stone books.
Robert Bryndza - Erika Foster/Kate Marshall series
KL Slater - All
Alison James -All

Lessons in chemistry was my favourite audiobook last year.

Thursday Murder club if you haven't already read it. Very good narrator.

The Perfect Widow narrated by Imogen Church, and another read by her called something like On A Quiet Street.

Have you listened to the Graham Norton ones? He reads them himself and he's quite good. They all have some sort of crime or long buried secret in them.

Whatever you choose make sure you listen to a sample first- loads of people recommended a rom com to me recently telling me both the book and narration was perfection. Without thinking I put my credit in and my god the narrator’s voice cuts through me and at times I can’t even understand her!! (I am extremely bitter about it lol!)

Never Stay Gone by Tal Bauer.

It's a murder mystery second chance romance.

John Solo narrates and his voice is just lovely.

If you haven't listened to them already, the Slow Horses Slough House series by Muck Heron holds my attention

This is what I was going to recommend

Anything by Stuart McBride, great crime books.

The Audio book of Hamnet by a Maggie o'Farrell is utterly absorbing a brilliant book. Just started American Dirt and enjoying it.

I’m listening to station 11 at the moment. Good narrator and it’s about a pandemic…..

If you don't get on with a narrator just return the book, you get your credit back.

If you like historical crime drama, I love the Shardlake series by CJ Samson. I've read some of the books and also listened to a couple of the audiobooks which I love. The narrator is great.

I also love the Agatha Raisin audiobooks narrated by Penelope Keith.

Not a crime book, but just another one I enjoyed on audible was The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, narrated by Carey Mulligan.

Lastly, the Wolf Hall trilogy which I couldn't get into when I read the books, were really good as audiobooks

I'm also loving the Strike novels atm. On my last one and now following this thread for what can take its place!

There's a limit to how many times you're allowed to do this though. They cut me off a couple of times and I really didn't think I'd done it excessively. I've now cancelled my audible account as it was annoying not being able to return them

That’s because authors petitioned Audible and pulled out because they were seeing the sales and then being penalised where people returned their books. In some cases people were reading half the book, returning, and they’d lose a sale, which was crazy- you wouldn’t bring a physical book back to a book shop after reading half!!