And now my TBL is down to 13 books!

Maigret and the Dead Girl by Georges Simenon, read by Gareth Armstrong.  A dead girl is found in Place Vintimille in Paris, and Maigret needs to find out who she is and what brought her to being murdered.  The usual entertaining plot.

Safe Enough by Lee Child, read by Richard Armitage.  A collection of short ( Read more... )

My TBL is at 15 titles, probably the lowest it's been for a couple of years!

Maigret's Memoirs by Georges Simenon read by Gareth Armstrong.  Different from the usual stories, with Maigret himself providing some of his own history and explaining how he is different from he character described by M. Simenon.  Learning a bit about Maigret's ( Read more... )

The TBL list is now down to 20 titles!

The Dinner Lady Detectives by Hannah Hendy read by Jenny Funnell.  I originally discovered this series as it was recommended by the library for Pride Month.  Definitely in the cosy crime genre, but entertaining without being demanding.  The two dinner ladies are in the 60s and have lived together for about 40 ( Read more... )

There are now 23 books on my TBL list as the latest Audible sale featured a few I was already interested in.

Cities and Canopies: Trees in Indian Cities by Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli read by Dilshad Kuruna.  Harini Nagendra is a professor of Ecology at Azim Prenji University and also a favourite mystery author of mine, which is why I ( Read more... )

My TBL has increased again to 22, mainly from stocking up on reduced price Maigrets!

Come, Tell Me How You Live: an archaeological memoir by Agatha Christie read by Judith Boyd.  A highly entertaining listen about Christie's travels in Syria and Iraq in the 1930s with her husband, Max Mallowan.  Recommended by Okapi I really enjoyed it and ( Read more... )

And my TBL is back up to 20 titles - I'm a sucker for the sales, but I don't think there's more than a year's supply there...

My Friend Maigret by Georges Simenon read by Gareth Armstrong.  This features a Scotland Yard detective who has come to study Maigret's way of working and is set mainly in a small island off the Cote D'Azure.  As ( Read more... )

My TBL has dropped to 16 titles, so probably less than a year's listening.

The Tales of Max Carrados by Ernest Bramah read by Stephen Fry.  Another early detective series, read beautifully by Stephen Fry.  The stories are enjoyable listening and Fry conveys Carrados' personality really well.

The Third Man by Graham Greene read by Martin Jarvis.  ( Read more... )

My TBL is back down to 20 titles.

The Hanged Man of St Pholien by Georges Simenon read by Gareth Armstrong
My next Maigret, written in 1931.  I do enjoy both the view of France in the 1930s as well as the plots that Simenon creates.

The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John Le Carré read by Michael Jayston
The next in the Smiley series, although ( Read more... )

This is just a short review, as I have now finished all the audiobooks I had on my TBL at the beginning of March 2023, and am therefore starting the next pile of 22, with the intention of having listened to them all by the end of next January.

The Captain and the Enemy by Graham Greene, read by Kenneth Branagh
This is the last novel which Greene ( Read more... )

And just to be consistent, my TBL list is now back at 20!

Rules for Perfect Murders by Peter Swanson, read by Graham Halstead. 
This was a Shedunnit modern novel candidate a couple of years ago, which sounded interesting.  There's a series of murders which are committed based on a number of classic golden age stories.  Unfortunately there was ( Read more... )