Author

Natalie Tielcke Audiobooks

Pretty Dead Girl: a short, sharp entry on the crime and thriller shelf

1 audiobook reviewed

Main genres

Crime & Thriller

Who is Natalie Tielcke?

Crime fiction has always known the value of a blunt title, and Natalie Tielcke has chosen one. Pretty Dead Girl puts the genre’s oldest and most uncomfortable convention right there on the cover, the victim described before anything else about her is known, and a title that direct is usually aware of exactly what it is doing.

Our catalogue files the work under crime and thriller and nowhere else, which is unusually clean for this shelf. Under five hours makes it compact by the standards of the genre, closer to a long evening than a campaign, and that brevity tends to concentrate rather than dilute: fewer subplots, less throat-clearing, a plot that has to keep moving because there is nowhere to hide.

Natalie Tielcke in audiobooks

Moses Alexander narrates, and at this length the reading carries a good deal. A short thriller lives on pace, and a narrator who mistakes urgency for haste can flatten the whole thing inside a chapter.

No listener verdicts have been recorded yet, which is simply where a recent arrival sits; there is nothing to interpret in an empty column. Start here by default, since this is where Tielcke appears on our shelves, and treat the running time as an invitation. Under five hours is an easy experiment to make with an unfamiliar name. The listing below carries the current details.