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Plug into into 2022\u2019s crime\/mystery\/thriller hits and award nominees–all of them worthwhile in print, with some audio standouts..<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Joe Country<\/em> by Mick Herron<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You can\u2019t go wrong with Herron\u2019s books about Slough House, the career dead-end for London\u2019s MI5 security personnel who\u2019ve suffered, let\u2019s call them, lapses. If working for ill-tempered and slovenly Jackson Lamb weren\u2019t disheartening enough, they have troubled back stories, and book by book you get to know them. Even better is that Joe Country<\/em> is narrated by Gerard Doyle, who is just as good here as always.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clark and Division<\/em> by Naomi Hirahara<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is a rare instance where I\u2019d recommend you stick to print. In Hirahara\u2019s WWII-era novel, a Japanese American family released from internment camp arrives in Chicago to rejoin their older daughter, only to learn she committed suicide the previous day. In that the younger daughter, Aki, sets out to discover the truth about her sister\u2019s death, it\u2019s a detective story; in that it\u2019s set in a Nisei world with all its constraints and opportunities, it\u2019s social history. Nominated for a Mary Higgins Clark Award from Mystery Writers of America (MWA) and an Agatha Award from Malice Domestic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Razorblade Tears<\/em> by S.A. Cosby<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Adam Lazarre-White does a spectacular job with his rendering of this story\u2019s characters. And the two leads couldn\u2019t be more different: Ike, a taciturn black landscape service owner, and Buddy Lee, a voluble white man down\u2014way down\u2014on his luck. Their sons fell in love and married, something both dads have trouble with. But the young men were happy\u2014that is, until they were murdered. Now their fathers want to know who did it. It\u2019s a compelling story, and Lazarre-White delivers it with feeling and humor. Nominated for an Audie Award by the Audio Publishers Association. Edgar award nominee for Best Novel from MWA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trouble is What I Do<\/em> by Walter Mosley<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dion Graham narrates this story in Mosley\u2019s popular series about private investigator Leonid McGill. In this story, his challenge is to protect an elderly Mississippi bluesman, upending the wealthy and the corrupt in the process, always a task to McGill\u2019s taste. The reading is smooth as silk. Finalist for a 2021 Audie Award for Mystery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Djinn Patrol in the Purple Line<\/em> by Deepa Anappara<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This novel has three narrators\u2014Indira Varma, Himesh Patel, and Antonio Aakeel. Ordinarily, I don\u2019t find multiple narrators necessary. Most of story is told by nine-year-old Jai, and the actor conveys both his enthusiasm and naivete. When his schoolmates begin to disappear from their slum neighborhood without a trace, Jai and his friends decide to investigate. Author Anappara, a former journalist, based the story real-life child disappearances<\/a>, which, in India, occur every eight minutes. 2021 Edgar Award for Best Novel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Plug into into 2022\u2019s crime\/mystery\/thriller hits and award nominees–all of them worthwhile in print, with some audio standouts.. Joe Country by Mick Herron You can\u2019t go wrong with Herron\u2019s books about Slough House, the career dead-end for London\u2019s MI5 security … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Some top audiobook picks from recent award nominees and crime\/mystery\/thriller hits.","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,21,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-books","category-narrator","category-reading-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2NkiT-2vU","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9669,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9666\/revisions\/9669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vweisfeld.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}