J M Dalgliesh Audiobooks

A series called The Misty Isle sets its weather before it sets its plot, and in British crime writing that is a deliberate kind of promise. J M Dalgliesh appears with us through that sequence, filed across crime and thriller and general fiction, the standard shelving for detective novels that want to be read as novels.

The Missing Dead is a title in the plain declarative style the genre has always favoured. No cleverness, no misdirection, just a phrase that raises a question and then leaves it hanging.

Place-anchored crime works by accumulation. The landscape stays put, the cases change, and the listener comes back for both in roughly equal measure.

The Missing Dead is catalogued here ahead of its arrival, and the practical details are still being confirmed: neither the narrator nor the running time has settled in our records. That is normal for a title logged early, and both will appear on this page once they are known.

There are no listener verdicts either, which is only to be expected at this stage. What you can rely on for now is the placement within The Misty Isle and the register that goes with it.

Watch the listings below for the detail as it lands.