Irina Shapiro Audiobooks

Redmond and Haze Mysteries: period crime arriving with Murder in the Crypt

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.4/5 average

8 listener ratings

Who is Irina Shapiro?

Some crime writing announces its territory in a single word, and crypt is one of those words. Murder in the Crypt opens the Redmond and Haze Mysteries as we have them listed, and a pair of surnames in a series title is among the oldest signals in detective fiction: this is a partnership, and the cases will keep coming.

Irina Shapiro is filed here across crime and thriller and general fiction, the usual cross-shelving for mystery that cares about character as much as clue. That distinction matters to a listener. A procedural is consumed; a partnership is followed.

Nearly nine hours for an opening case suggests room has been left for setting, and for the slow business of establishing two people who will have to carry a sequence between them.

Irina Shapiro in audiobooks

Murder in the Crypt is read by Wendy Wolfson and runs to just under nine hours. It is listed here ahead of its arrival rather than sitting on the shelves today, so treat this page as a note to self rather than a link to follow this evening.

A small handful of listeners have marked it warmly, but the count behind that average is far too thin to carry weight and I would not lean on it. What can be said with more confidence is the shape. Series openers at this length tend to spend their first third laying track, and to reward whoever stays past it.

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