Adam Southward Audiobooks

Darling Death: a crime thriller built on menace and restraint

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 5.0/5 average

4 listener ratings

Who is Adam Southward?

A title like Darling Death does half the work before a word is read. The endearment and the threat sit in the same breath, and that tension is the signature of the psychological end of crime fiction, which is where Adam Southward is placed in our catalogue.

Biographical detail is thin on the ground, and we prefer a short honest note to a padded one. On the evidence of the book, this is a writer working in contemporary crime with an ear for menace rather than procedure, and with enough confidence to let a nine-hour story build in its own time.

Adam Southward in audiobooks

Pippa Bennett-Warner narrates, and the choice matters: a crime novel trading on intimacy needs a reader who can drop to a near whisper and still hold a room. Nine hours and twenty-one minutes gives that approach the space it needs to work.

The early ratings are as high as they go, though few enough that the picture will shift as more listeners arrive. Darling Death is where to begin with this author here, and it makes a strong case on its own. Browse the audiobooks below to get started.