Anna-Lou Weatherley Audiobooks

A Southampton-born, London-raised storyteller, Anna-Lou Weatherley came to crime fiction by way of the magazine world, where she spent years as an editor before turning her hand to the novel. That grounding shows on the page in a sharp ear for how people really speak, a feel for pace, and an instinct for the secrets that curdle inside ordinary homes.

She published her first book, Ibiza Summer, in 2006, then gravitated steadily towards suspense, the territory where her talents truly clicked. Today she is best known for twisty, propulsive psychological thrillers, the sort of books readers describe as impossible to put down and finish in a single sitting.

At the heart of her recent work stands Detective Dan Riley, the series that has won her a wide and devoted readership. Across some fourteen novels to date, Weatherley writes the domestic thriller with real relish, forever asking how far an apparently ordinary person might go when pushed.

Both of Weatherley’s audiobooks with us belong to the Detective Dan Riley series, and both are voiced by James Lailey, whose assured, unhurried narration regular listeners have come to associate with Riley himself. What Kind of Mother is the clear standout, a 4.5-rated thriller with well over nine hundred ratings: a mother opens her door to find her son and his girlfriend spattered in blood, and must decide exactly what kind of mother she is prepared to be.

Its companion, She Made Me Do It, keeps the tension high and holds a strong 4.4, another twisting case for Riley and his team. Each reads well on its own, so newcomers can start with either, though What Kind of Mother makes the natural gateway.

If you like your crime domestic, morally knotty and briskly plotted, explore both audiobooks below.