Narrator Mary-Louise Parker contrasts the two featured characters in Grisham's latest: a frightened professor who's trying to stop a serial killer who murdered her father and confident, skeptical judicial investigator Lacy Stoltz. Parker's narration is calm as the professor details the series of murders, each with the same MO. All the victims have ties to Judge Ross Bannock. As the story homes in on the judge, listeners get a sense of the routine lives of his victims and the equally routine process of his serial murders. Parker's voice sounds as methodical as the killer's finely tuned crimes. The audiobook soon becomes a cat-and-mouse game, with mockery and then paranoia entering the judge's thoughts as the probe comes closer. Grisham narrates his introduction.
Pub Date: Nov. 2, 2021
Duration: 11 hrs, 30 mins
DD ISBN: 9780593168493
Publisher: Random House Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
C.J. Box writes about life in wild Wyoming, short stories of people living a rugged life by choice or by circumstance. David Chandler narrates in a rough-edged whiskey voice that suggests summer heat, bitter winters, and windswept prairies, guiding the listener through 10 adventures of men like Fish and Game Officer Joe Pickett. Chandler brings the listener into this strange world where, more often than not, men have to create their own justice. His performance of the economical stories, some rarely seen, is perfect. The tale of the frozen body of a Native American basketball player turned speed freak, her arm reaching through the ice of a lake in a final jump shot, is one of the most fascinating in the collection.
Pub Date: N/A
Duration: 7 hrs, 30 mins
DD ISBN: 9781470392796
Publisher: Recorded Books Inc.
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
Michael Beck brings his best Southern drawl to his portrayal of a wealthy, eccentric widow, Eleanor, and her small-town debt-ridden lawyer, Simon, who is eager to handle her fortune. When Eleanor dies under suspicious circumstances, evidence strongly points to Simon, who must find the true killer before he loses everything. Beck infuses his characters with drawls befitting their personalities: elderly Eleanor with her high-pitched drawl; Simon with his good-old-boy drawl; criminal stepsons with their rough, guttural drawls; and old-fashioned Southern judges with their lazy drawls. Listeners will hold their breath as Beck builds the suspense in this slow-burn Southern tale of greed.
Pub Date: Oct. 21, 2025
Duration: 14 hrs, 30 mins
DD ISBN: 9780593607510
Publisher: Random House Audio
Review Posted Online: Jan. 22, 2026
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