Tuesday, March 03, 2020

Superior Sounds of Suspense

A month after the Audio Publishers Association announced its finalists, in 24 categories, for the 2020 Audie Awards, we now have the winners. A full catalogue of those is available here, but below are the two Audie recipients of perhaps greatest interest to Rap Sheet readers.

Mystery: The Chestnut Man, by Søren Sveistrup, narrated by Peter Noble (HarperAudio)

Also nominated: Along Came a Spider (25th anniversary edition), by James Patterson, narrated by Taye Diggs (Hachette Audio); The Boy, by Tami Hoag, narrated by Hillary Huber (Brilliance); The Lost Man, by Jane Harper, narrated by Stephen Shanahan (Macmillan Audio); and The New Iberia Blues, by James Lee Burke, narrated by Will Patton (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Thriller/Suspense: The Institute, by Stephen King, narrated by Santino Fontana (Simon & Schuster Audio)

Also nominated: Blood in the Water, by Jack Flynn, narrated by Dion Graham (Recorded Books); Freefall, by Jessica Barry, narrated by Hillary Huber, Karissa Vacker, and MacLeod Andrews (HarperAudio); Lady in the Lake, by Laura Lippman, narrated by Susan Bennett (HarperAudio); and Winter Dark, by Alex Callister, narrated by Ell Potter (Audible Originals)

Note also that the Macmillan Audio version of Louise Penny’s Kingdom of the Blind won in the Best Male Narrator category. English actor Robert Bathurst provided the narration.

(Hat tip to Mystery Fanfare.)

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