Andrew Raymond Audiobooks

Crime fiction built around a recurring detective is a long game, and Andrew Raymond is playing it. The DCI Lomond Crime Thrillers give him a fixed centre to work from: a lead officer whose habits and history accumulate from book to book, and a caseload that can go wherever the writing wants to take it.

A series like that rewards a particular discipline. Each case has to stand alone for the newcomer while adding something for the reader who has been there since the start, and the pace has to stay tight without the plotting turning mechanical. That is the tradition Raymond writes in, and the compact running time here suggests an author who prefers momentum to sprawl.

The Ferryman is the case that brings him to our shelves, read by Angus King across a little over seven hours. That is a lean length for a police thriller and a good sign with it: no padding, no detours, the sort of book that gets finished in two sittings because stopping feels wrong.

It has only recently arrived, so listener verdicts are still to come and we would rather you judged it than a score did. Newcomers to Lomond can start here quite happily. The audiobooks below will show you what is available.