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Audiobooks - March to May 2026
May. 10th, 2026 02:06 pmMy current TBL list has shot up to 28, plus I pre-order. Audible had a couple of sales, one for series and one mega sale which I took full advantage of. So this will take me well into next year, especially as a number belong to series which I'm listening to and which are unavailable in the library and it was cheaper to buy and audio copy than a second hand one.
Here's the titles I've listened to in the last couple of months:
Mystery in the Channel by Freeman Wills Croft read by Gordon Griffin
An Inspector French mystery, which I'd been planning on reading for a while (British Library Crime Classics series). Two bodies are discovered on a deserted yacht in the middle of the English Channel. French has to work out who killed them, why and how. Slightly long-winded but an interesting mystery. I wasn't completely surprised at the eventual murderer.
A Curiously Convenient Demise by Hannah Hendy read by Jenny Funnell
Next in the Dinnerlady Detectives series. An entertaining listen with an enjoyable cast of characters.
Calamity in Kent by John Rowland read by Peter Wickham
Another British Library Crime Classics series. A clever impossible crime, but the narrator (in the story, not the reader) annoyed me, stating every chapter he was a newspaper reporter, which, if you hadn't realised that by halfway through the book you clearly couldn't have been paying any attention.
A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith read by Matthew Lloyd Davies
This had been in my TBL since last year, as I'd seen a lot of recommendations for it. I enjoyed it, and may well read the next in the series at some point. I knew the solution to one of the mysteries by about halfway through and towards the end had my suspicions as to the other.
Murder on Milverton Square by G B Ralph read by Philip Battley
I had put this on my list as being set in New Zealand and a cosy mystery - i.e. ideal for listening while driving. The protagonist Addison Harper is a bit of an idiot, but I enjoyed the story overall. I was thinking I'd listen to more, but since the next three stories all have Harper being the one to find a dead body and being the main suspect, I won't be - for me that plot works once not several times.
Here's the titles I've listened to in the last couple of months:
Mystery in the Channel by Freeman Wills Croft read by Gordon Griffin
An Inspector French mystery, which I'd been planning on reading for a while (British Library Crime Classics series). Two bodies are discovered on a deserted yacht in the middle of the English Channel. French has to work out who killed them, why and how. Slightly long-winded but an interesting mystery. I wasn't completely surprised at the eventual murderer.
A Curiously Convenient Demise by Hannah Hendy read by Jenny Funnell
Next in the Dinnerlady Detectives series. An entertaining listen with an enjoyable cast of characters.
Calamity in Kent by John Rowland read by Peter Wickham
Another British Library Crime Classics series. A clever impossible crime, but the narrator (in the story, not the reader) annoyed me, stating every chapter he was a newspaper reporter, which, if you hadn't realised that by halfway through the book you clearly couldn't have been paying any attention.
A Case of Mice and Murder by Sally Smith read by Matthew Lloyd Davies
This had been in my TBL since last year, as I'd seen a lot of recommendations for it. I enjoyed it, and may well read the next in the series at some point. I knew the solution to one of the mysteries by about halfway through and towards the end had my suspicions as to the other.
Murder on Milverton Square by G B Ralph read by Philip Battley
I had put this on my list as being set in New Zealand and a cosy mystery - i.e. ideal for listening while driving. The protagonist Addison Harper is a bit of an idiot, but I enjoyed the story overall. I was thinking I'd listen to more, but since the next three stories all have Harper being the one to find a dead body and being the main suspect, I won't be - for me that plot works once not several times.
