Mystery Audiobooks to Check Out Now

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For fans of noir fiction, a setting brought to life, and murder mysteries!

In a small village outside of Delhi, India, an eight-year-old girl is found murdered and an unhoused man is crying by her body. Quickly, blame is cast on who the murderer is, but it’s based on mob mentality, making investigator Ombir Singh’s case even harder!

For fans of opposites teaming up to catch a fictional serial killer!

Carmen Sanchez works for Homeland Security and Professor Jake Heron is an expert on private security. While Sanchez follows every rule to the letter, Heron believes rules are suggestions. Naturally, they’ll butt heads, especially since they have a past. But Sanchez’s sister has been attacked during a string of murders in California, and Heron owes her a favor, so these two are about to be a crime-solving duo!

If you read Bullet Train, or saw the adaptation, this was actually the first published book in the series in Japan. In the US, they first published Bullet Train and then this one, so I am “catching up”. This series does what I love about Japanese crime novels: it’s darkly funny while also being philosophical. The series starts with one man out to avenge his murdered wife and is joined by three, let’s say, quirky assassins that go by the names The Whale, The Cicada, and The Pusher.

I honestly put a hold on this knowing nothing about it and that’s why, based on the cover, I thought it was a fantasy book. It’s not: it’s a charming cozy mystery series starter! It hits the cozy mystery tropes for fans of the lead inheriting a mansion and bookstore, a seaside village, eccentric residents, and the rival business owner being murdered!