Hark! There’s Audiobooks News

The Audio Publishers Association has announced its finalists for the 2023 Audie Awards, “recognizing distinction in audiobooks and spoken-word entertainment.” There are 26 categories of nominees this year. Under the Mystery heading are found these five works:

• The Bangalore Detectives Club, by Harini Nagendra,
narrated by Soneela Nankani (Blackstone)
• The Heron, by Don Winslow,
narrated by Ed Harris (Audible Originals)
• The Maid, by Nita Prose,
narrated by Lauren Ambrose (Penguin Random House Audio)
• The Murder of Mr. Wickham, by Claudia Gray,
narrated by Billie Fulford-Brown (Penguin Random House Audio)
• Suspect, by Scott Turow,
narrated by Helen Laser (Hachette Audio)

There are half a dozen Thriller/Suspense candidates:

• The Boys from Biloxi, by John Grisham,
narrated by Michael Beck (Penguin Random House Audio)
• Greenwich Park, by Katherine Faulkner,
narrated by Laura Kirman (Simon & Schuster Audio)
• The Island, by Adrian McKinty,
narrated by Mela Lee (Hachette Audio)
• The Paris Apartment, by Lucy Foley,
narrated by Clare Corbett, Daphne Kouma, Julia Winwood, Sope Dirisu, Sofia Zervudachi, and Charlie Anson (HarperAudio)
• Snowstorm in August, by Marshall Karp,
narrated by Chris Andrew Ciulla and Michael Manuel (Blackstone)
• Where Secrets Live, by S.C. Richards,
narrated by Jennifer Jill Araya (Dreamscape Media)

Crime, mystery, and thriller novels are found in other categories, as well. The Silent Sisters, by Robert Dugoni, narrated by Edoardo Ballerini (Brilliance), and The Violin Conspiracy, by Brendan Slocumb, narrated by J.D. Jackson (Penguin Random House Audio) are contending for Best Male Narrator honors. And both The Butcher and the Wren, by Alaina Urquhart, narrated by Sophie Amoss and Joe Knezevich (Zando), and Sparring Partners, by John Grisham, narrated by Jeff Daniels, Ethan Hawke, January LaVoy, and John Grisham (Penguin Random House Audio), are vying in the Multi-Voiced Performance category.

All of this year’s Audie recipients are to be declared on Tuesday, March 28, during an evening ceremony in New York City.