Jon Harris Audiobooks

Murder on a Country Lane: cosy Somerset crime with a comic streak

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Who is Jon Harris?

Somerset, a country lane, a body. Those are the ingredients of a whodunit that knows precisely which tradition it belongs to, and Jon Harris writes inside it: the catalogue groups the work under the Somerset whodunit mysteries, which puts the murders among villages, hedgerows and the sort of community where everyone holds an opinion about everyone else.

The double shelving is the detail that matters, comedy and humour set beside crime and thriller. Cosy crime lives on exactly that combination: a serious puzzle handled with a light touch, the violence kept off stage, the pleasure coming from character and misdirection. At under six hours the book is scaled for that kind of listening.

Jon Harris in audiobooks

Henrietta Meire takes the narration, which for village crime is a considerable part of the job, since both the humour and the suspects live in the delivery of dialogue.

This title is a scheduled arrival rather than something available this minute, so note it now and return once it lands. Ratings are effectively non-existent for the moment, making it one to take on the strength of the premise: a compact rural mystery with jokes in it. Anyone raised on gentle British crime will know at once whether this is for them. The current selection appears below.