Listen Up

Taking a break from cataloguing lists of the “best crime fiction of 2021” in print, let’s recognize AudioFile magazine’s nominations of the “Best Audiobooks of 2021.” There are nine categories of favorites, including these six works in the “Mystery & Suspense” division:

• Blood Grove, by Walter Mosley,
read by Michael Boatman (Hachette Audio)
• The Maidens, by Alex Michaelides,
read by Louise Brealey and Kobna Holdbrick-Smith (Macmillan Audio)
• Murder on the Links, by Agatha Christie, read by Alfred Molina,
Simon Helberg, and a full cast (L.A. Theatre Works)
• The Night Gate, by Peter May,
read by Peter Forbes (Quercus Editions)
• Ocean Prey, by John Sandford,
read by Richard Ferrone (Penguin Audio)
• Velvet Was the Night,
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia, read by Gisela Chípe (Random House Audio)

Click here to find all of this year’s categories of contenders.