D.L. Fisher Audiobooks

The Widower: grief, suspicion and a crime thriller that divides its listeners

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 3.8/5 average

443 listener ratings

Who is D.L. Fisher?

A widower is a figure crime fiction cannot leave alone. Grief makes the perfect cover and sympathy the perfect shield, and D.L. Fisher takes that loaded word for a title and lets it do exactly the work you would expect.

The book sits across our crime and thriller and general fiction shelves, which is a useful signal about its priorities. This is suspense that stays close to domestic life rather than to the investigation room, the kind of story where the danger is at the kitchen table. It has provoked a genuine spread of opinion here, currently holding 3.8 across several hundred ratings, and a divisive thriller is very often more interesting than a universally comfortable one.

D.L. Fisher in audiobooks

The audiobook runs a little over seven and a half hours, narrated by Jessica Preddy. Domestic suspense asks a narrator to hold two registers at once, the ordinary and the ominous, and it is the ordinary one that has to convince first.

It stands alone, so no reading order applies and there is nothing to catch up on beforehand. Come to it with an open mind about where your sympathies will end up, and see the audiobook below.