Paul Holes Audiobooks

Finding the Lost Girls: a short, self-narrated account from the true crime shelf

1 audiobook reviewed

★ 4.6/5 average

14 listener ratings

Who is Paul Holes?

True crime works best when the person telling it has skin in the story. Finding the Lost Girls arrives under Paul Holes’s name and is read by Paul Holes, and that single fact shapes the whole listen: this is testimony rather than reportage assembled from a safe distance.

Our catalogue files it under memoir and crime together, and the pairing is right. The pull is not the mechanics of a case alone but the cost of carrying one, the way an investigation lodges in whoever pursues it. The register is plain, controlled and free of the lurid flourishes that make so much of the genre hard to sit with.

Paul Holes in audiobooks

At a shade over four hours it is a single sitting for most listeners, and the compression works in its favour: nothing is padded, nothing is restated for length. Paul Holes narrates, and the delivery carries the unmistakable flatness of someone describing what happened rather than selling it.

Early scores are warm, and the brevity makes this an easy recommendation for anyone curious about investigative memoir but wary of the sprawling multi part productions the genre so often runs to. Begin at the top and let it run. Details are below.