Audiobook #176: The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood

The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood (#1 in the Marlow Murder Club series) is my #176!!

I’ve also just seen that a colleague will narrate The Queen of Poisons (#3 in the same series). Listening to other audiobook narrators can sometimes be very intimidating (at other times, the comparison can make you feel quite good about your narration after all!). I can be sure that that this colleague will be excellent because I have listened to her narration of another book in a similar genre (The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman).

Listening to truly excellent narration leaves you satiated and satisfied. Content, as if you’ve just eaten a delicious meal of ample but not excessive sufficiency. I wonder if my colleague's skills derive from her additional experience as a director? The actor's role is to create voices and performances for various characters. The director's role is to co-ordinate them into a cohesive narrative whole.

(On a side note: the genre is ‘cosy crime’, which is an apt but uncomfortable sobriquet. Should we be feeling ‘cosy’ about crime, especially as it is usually murder?)