Leah Orr Audiobooks

The Retirees: a compact crime thriller about people with time on their hands

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.1/5 average

398 listener ratings

Who is Leah Orr?

Crime fiction has quietly discovered the retired. They have time, they have grievances, they are underestimated by nearly everyone including the police, and nobody watches them. Leah Orr takes that premise for a title in The Retirees, filed on our crime and thriller shelf.

Under six hours is a lean shape for the genre, and lean is usually a compliment here. It rules out the sprawling procedural with its committee of suspects and points instead at something tighter: a small cast, a contained situation, and a plot obliged to keep moving because there is no room in which to stall.

Leah Orr in audiobooks

Annalee Scott reads, and five hours and forty-three minutes makes this an unusually easy commitment for a thriller. A pair of evenings, or one long journey, and it is done.

Close to four hundred listeners have registered an opinion, with the average settling just above four stars, a respectable showing for a recent crime title and a large enough sample to take seriously. It suits anyone after something sharp and self-contained to slot between heavier series. See what is currently listed below.